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Berkeley braces for visit by right-wing speaker Ben Shapiro

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – The University of California, Berkeley will seal off large parts of its campus like a fortress with a closed perimeter and a “very large” visible police presence Thur...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High school shooting in Washington state kills 1, injures 3

Shooter apprehended by police

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. Virgin Islands getting aid but still reeling from Irma

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands – The last of the late-summer tourists were gone Wednesday from the U.S. Virgin Islands, ferried away from the wreckage of Hurricane Irma in cruise ships boun...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hurricane victims facing a long road to home reconstruction

With floodwaters nearing knee height, Arlene Estle fled to the upstairs of the Houston house where she’s lived for 50 years and raised four children. It was many hours later before her son-i...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chief fossil preparator at Denver museum dies

DENVER – The Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s chief fossil preparator has died. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/2h1WWlD) that 50-year-old Mike Getty died on Monday after...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

AP interview: Ryan won’t say tax plan won’t raise deficit

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan declined Wednesday to say the evolving Republican tax cut plan won’t add to the nation’s already mammoth budget deficits. A chief goal of the effort will...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

8 die at Florida nursing home in Irma’s sweltering aftermath

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Eight patients at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, raising fears Wednesday about the safety of Florida’s 4 million seni...

DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Residents return to destruction

FEMA estimates 25 percent of Florida Keys homes are gone

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado fines oil and gas company $225,000 over 2016 spill

DENVER – Colorado has fined an oil and gas company $225,000 for a pipeline leak that contaminated soil and water on a hunting ranch in the western part of the state. The Denver Po...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrat on voter fraud commission defends panel’s existence

MANCHESTER, N.H. – New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner defended both his role on President Donald Trump’s election fraud commission and the panel’s existence Tuesday as it began it...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

The latest: Florida east coast may have power back by Sunday

MIAMI – The Latest on Irma (all times local): 12:10 p.m. Florida’s largest utility says much of the state’s east coast could have power back by Sunday, but other areas ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Paper airplane, sand among 12 finalists for Toy Hall of Fame

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – No-frills toys including the paper airplane, sand and play food are among 12 finalists vying for a place in the National Toy Hall of Fame. The contenders for the...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World