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Floodwaters rising in the Midwest ST. LOUIS – Flood fighters from small Mississippi River hamlets to the suburbs of Chicago staged a feverish battle Friday to hold back raging riv...

DATE: Apr 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boy Scouts propose to lift gay ban for young people

NEW YORK – Searching for compromise on a divisive issue, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays – allowing them as youth members but con...

DATE: Apr 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photos help break bomb case

Pivotal decision was a gamble for law enforcement

DATE: Apr 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston police: Bombing suspect is in custody

WATERTOWN, Mass. – A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his o...

DATE: Apr 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pakistan’s Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest

ISLAMABAD – Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his bodyguards pushed past policemen and sped away from court in the country’s capital Thursday to avoid arrest after his bai...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

How Chinese bird flu infects humans still mystery

BEIJING – Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no re...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Air search finds no trace of missing Okla. man

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A short break in windy weather on Thursday allowed a rancher with a helicopter to search a rugged mountainside in southeastern Oregon for a young Oklahoma man who set out...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Double disaster: Man sees explosions in Boston, Texas

People keep asking Joe Berti if he feels unlucky. A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon moments after Berti finished the race. Two days later, he was in his ho...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA spies planets that seem ideal for life

WASHINGTON – NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right ...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists decode DNA of ‘living fossil’ fish

Breakthrough may provide insights into evolution

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Spring storm delivers extremes

ST. LOUIS – A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and threatened to bring its mix...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

No bombs found after 2 Calif. threats LOS ANGELES – When a 911 caller told Southern California police Thursday that there were bombs at two state universities, one campus decided ...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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