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Lead contamination of Flint water draws multiple lawsuits

DETROIT – One lawsuit seeks to replace lead-leaching water lines at no cost to customers. Another seeks money for thousands of Flint residents who unwittingly drank toxic water. A third comp...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Heroin scourge changes role of police in hard-hit areas

CINCINNATI – Forehead furrowed, a woman drags on a Camel cigarette, admitting she has only vague memories of nearly dying five days earlier. Some flashes of images of being inside...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bosnian first-graders reach out to deaf schoolmate

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – When Mirzana Coralic asked the primary school in her Sarajevo neighborhood whether they would enroll her deaf son, teacher Sanela Ljumanovic volunteered withou...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Christie, others hit final stretch in New Hampshire

HAMPTON, N.H. – It’s less than two days until New Hampshire voters go to the polls. But Hillary Clinton is in Michigan. And other candidates, even Jeb Bush, say their campaigns will go on no...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea praises rocket; others view as covert missile test

SEOUL, South Korea – For North Korea’s propaganda machine, the long-range rocket launch Sunday carved a glorious trail of “fascinating vapor” through the clear blue sky. For South Korea’s pr...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Wheaton professor leaving, not fired over Muslim post WHEATON, Ill. – Wheaton College political science professor Larycia Hawkins has decided to part ways with the college just fi...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Turkey: Reaching limits but will keep taking in refugees

KILIS, Turkey – Turkey has reached the end of its “capacity to absorb” refugees but will continue to take them in, the deputy premier said Sunday, as his country faced mounting pressure to o...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama campaigns again

This time for economy and his legacy

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Clinton calls Flint water crisis ‘immoral’ in break from NH

FLINT, Mich. – Taking a detour from New Hampshire’s campaign trail, Hillary Clinton said Sunday that a water crisis in a Michigan city was “immoral” and demanded that Congress approve $200 m...

DATE: Feb 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A woman with some bark

S. Korean cares for 200 stray dogs

DATE: Feb 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Casinos betting on new generation of gamblers

BOSTON – Casinos worried that millennials aren’t getting into traditional gambling like their parents and grandparents are bringing in tattoo studios, mixed martial arts competitions and oth...

DATE: Feb 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World