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Blast it! Fireworks pollute air

Explosives may pose health risk to some

Comedy center to include holographic jokesters

JAMESTOWN, New York – Did you hear the one about Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Andy Kauffman performing on the same stage? It might not be a joke once the National Comedy Cente...

U.S., Cuba reach deal on restoring ties

Obama official: Negotiators OK agreement to reopen embassies

Federal report faults police action during Ferguson unrest

ST. LOUIS – Police antagonized crowds who gathered to protest in Ferguson after Michael Brown’s death last summer, violated free-speech rights and made it difficult to hold officers accounta...

Official: Prison chief, 11 others put on leave after escape

ALBANY, N.Y. – The superintendent at the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief and 10 other staff members amid a widening internal investi...

Two states rush to resume executions

Supreme Court says controversial drug is legal

Nation & World Briefs

Obama signs bills on trade negotiations WASHINGTON – In a rare bipartisan scene at the White House, President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law two hard-fought bills giving h...

Greeks struggle with new banking restrictions

Prime minister urges country to reject deal

U.S. stocks notch worst day of year as Greek crisis escalates

NEW YORK – Stocks are closing with their biggest losses of the year as investors worry about fallout from Greece’s worsening debt crisis. Greece is moving closer to defaulting on...

Indian tribe recognition process overhauled

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is making it easier for some Indian tribes to obtain federal recognition, addressing a longstanding grievance of many Native Americans. ...

Nation Briefs

Crime boss tells teens to ‘go to law school’ BOSTON – Former Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger had some advice for three high school girls who wrote to him for a history pro...

Greece’s financial future grows more uncertain

Country shuts banks, limits withdrawals