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5-year-old shoots 2-year-old to death at Kentucky home

BURKESVILLE, Ky. – In southern Kentucky, where children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks paid little attention as her 5-year-old son, Kristian, playe...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jamestown colonists turned to cannibalism to survive, scholars say

WASHINGTON – Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditi...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston suspect’s friends accused of hiding evidence

BOSTON – Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid o...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chance for wildfires above normal

BOISE, Idaho – Two small but unseasonably early fires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Immigration debate gives life to rallies LOS ANGELES – Demonstrators demanded an overhaul of immigration laws Wednesday in an annual, nationwide ritual that carried a special sens...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gitmo closure elusive, Obama looks at other steps

WASHINGTON – Despite President Barack Obama’s new vow, closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is still a tough sell in Congress. So the White House may look instead toward smaller steps like tran...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texts, TV, then trouble for bombing suspect’s pals

Dias Kadyrbayev was driving back to his apartment when he got a call from a college buddy. A clearly anxious Robel Phillipos told him authorities had released photos of the alleged Boston Ma...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Missing Pa. woman, thought dead, surfaces in Fla.

LITITZ, Pa. – A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida, telling police she traveled there on ...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Vermont woman disfigured in attack reveals new face

BOSTON – A Vermont woman revealed her new face Wednesday, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her with industrial-strength lye, and said she went through “what some may ...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

J.C. Penney ad apologizes to customers

NEW YORK – J.C. Penney is sorry and it wants your business back. That’s the gist of its latest ad, a public “mea culpa” which the mid-priced department-store put on its YouTube an...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect’s room

BOSTON – Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of removing a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from ...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labor

SEOUL, South Korea – An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the state, the North’s state media said today, a dev...

DATE: Apr 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World