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Grand jury indicts Perry in abuse-of-power case AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state p...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

45 years later, Woodstock continues to signify freedom

BETHEL, N.Y. – The artist Jan Sawka in August 1969 was in a military punishment camp in his native Poland. A leader in the nation’s student protest movement against the communist government,...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supervalu becomes latest to suffer data breach

NEW YORK – A data breach at Supervalu may have impacted as many as 200 of its grocery and liquor stores and potentially affected retail chains recently sold by the company in two dozen state...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas’ Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat

AUSTIN, Texas – A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Indian senior community part of a growing niche

TAVARES, Fla. – When Arun and Usha Pancholi were deciding where to spend their retirement years, they wanted a place that combined the culture and camaraderie of life in India with the comfo...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Richard Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)

NEW YORK – If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New safety words rule the pool

Words have power, and a new drowning-prevention effort says that doing away with misleading terminology such as “water safe” and “waterproofing” in swimming and water-safety programs is need...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police: Teen shot by cop suspect in recent robbery

FERGUSON, Mo. – The police in Ferguson broke their weeklong silence Friday and identified the officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager, as demanded by p...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: CDC scientist kept quiet about flu blunder

NEW YORK – An investigation into a potentially dangerous blunder at a government lab found that a scientist kept silent about the accident and revealed it only after other employees noticed ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama appeals for ‘peace and calm’ in Ferguson

EDGARTOWN, Mass. – Appealing for “peace and calm,” President Barack Obama on Thursday said there is no excuse for excessive use of force by police in a St. Louis suburb against crowds protes...

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers

WASHINGTON – More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds. Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 di...

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

State troopers take charge in Ferguson

Governor urges city to ‘step back a little bit’

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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