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Prince Harry tours storm-damaged N.J.

The Associated Press SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. – Britain’s Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel ...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dad wants evidence in girl’s stabbing

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. – The father of a 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister said Monday he will believe his son is innocent until he sees evidence that proves ...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police ID suspect in New Orleans mass shooting

NEW ORLEANS – Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identifie...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Roller coaster to be removed from ocean in N.J.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. – This time next week, perhaps the most famous symbol of Superstorm Sandy’s devastation at the Jersey shore will be gone. Demolition work is to start Tuesday...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bangladesh collapse survivor gives up garment work

SAVAR, Bangladesh – The 19-year-old seamstress who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building said Monday that she will never again work in a Bangladesh garment fact...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Government obtains Associated Press phone records in probe

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a ...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Critics lukewarm on U.S. plans in Arctic

WASHINGTON – A new U.S. strategy for the Arctic region has gotten a lukewarm response from a think tank that says the plan amounts to a “lengthy wish list” with few specifics. Th...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

IRS: Top official first told of targeting in 2012

WASHINGTON – Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after he had been briefed o...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize

BELIZE CITY – A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, author...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Heat turned up on fire season as budget cuts reduce force

BOISE, Idaho – After another dry winter across much of the West, fire officials are poised for a tough wildfire season that will be even more challenging because federal budget cuts mean few...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama says he won’t tolerate political bias at IRS

WASHINGTON – When members of Congress repeatedly raised concerns with the Internal Revenue Service about complaints that Tea Party groups were being harassed last year, a deputy IRS commissi...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics

WASHINGTON – House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as President Barack Obama asser...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World