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Natural disasters hit Okla. all too frequently

WASHINGTON – Many states get hit frequently with tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, but Oklahoma is Disaster Central. The twister that devastated Moore, Okla., was the 74t...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After attack, Britain worries about copycats

LONDON – Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks by Islamic extremists after the brutal slaying of a young soldier, whose grieving famil...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Mexico revises total of disappeared MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico’s drug war than were feared when the g...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Two arrests made after U.K. jet diverts plane

LONDON – Two men have been arrested after a Royal Air Force fighter jet was forced to escort a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan bound for the United Kingdom to Sta...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Truck in Wash. span collapse hauled drilling equipment

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – A truck hauling a too-tall load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span an...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff TOKYO – Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousa...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

London suspect was convert

Christian man turned to Islam around 2003

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boy Scouts OK plan to accept openly gay boys

GRAPEVINE, Texas – The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organ...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

IRS replaces official amid controversy WASHINGTON – Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursda...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama redefines terror threat, defends drones

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the last dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wyden: FracFocus a ‘constructive’ tool on drilling

WASHINGTON – A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a “constructive” tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hy...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set

PHOENIX – Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias’ fate couldn’t decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the ...

DATE: May 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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