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Clippers’ Sterling slams Magic Johnson LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling repeatedly disparaged Magic Johnson’s HIV-positive status in an interview that aire...

DATE: May 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Group demands release of fighters for girls

LAGOS, Nigeria – Under the guns of their captors, dozens of barefoot girls sat huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils as they chanted Quranic verses in Arabic. Some Christians among them...

DATE: May 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bids sought for new wild horse corrals

BLM also taking research proposals for fertility control

DATE: May 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Nigerian girl afraid to go back to school BAUCHI, Nigeria – One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was...

DATE: May 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sovereignty opted for in Ukraine region

Possibility of annexation by Russia, secession to be discussed later

DATE: May 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Floating lab showcases ‘aliens of the sea’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Researcher Leonid Moroz emerges from a dive off the Florida Keys and gleefully displays a plastic bag holding a creature that shimmers like an opal in the seawater. ...

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California may reverse course on water

SAN FRANCISCO – Water has flowed from Northern California’s snow-capped peaks to the south’s parched cities ever since the California Aqueduct was built in the 1960s. Now, amid one of the wo...

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds fail to inspect high-risk wells

Rules on fracking, methane emissions expected to be issued

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man with DUI past killed by an alleged drunk driver

DANA POINT, Calif. – An Orange County man recently released from rehab after three drunken driving convictions died when authorities say a 19-year-old man who had been drinking struck him, a...

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama presses for road repairs

Funding, taxes are needed to keep projects going

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Insurgents abduct wife, 2 kids in Nigeria

Joint effort to rescue schoolgirls starts

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Same-sex marriage arrives in Bible Belt: Ark. issues licenses

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – Gay marriage arrived in the Bible Belt on Saturday, beginning with two women who had traveled overnight to ensure they’d be first in line. “Thank God,” Jenn...

DATE: May 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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