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Nursing homes struggled with choice to evacuate in hurricane

DALLAS – Murky water started seeping into a Port Arthur, Texas, nursing home four days after administrators decided to shelter in place. Volunteers – one even brandishing a gun – demanded re...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pro-independence Catalans: ‘I’ve never felt Spanish’

GIRONA, Spain – To sense the conflicting currents of identity that have led Spain to the edge of a constitutional cliff, look no farther than Girona, some 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. Ma...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Full recovery from California wildfires may take years

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Collins: Clinton camp needs to fully explain dossier payment

WASHINGTON – A Senate Intelligence Committee member says Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the former Democratic Party head need to explain what they knew about a dossier of allegation...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Confusion coming with California’s legal marijuana

LOS ANGELES – Ready or not, California kicks off recreational marijuana sales on Jan. 1. And, mostly, it’s not. Los Angeles and San Francisco are among many cities still strugglin...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Doctors prepare for deep dive into Las Vegas shooter’s brain

LAS VEGAS – Scientists are preparing to do a microscopic study of the Las Vegas gunman’s brain, but whatever they find, if anything, likely won’t be what led him to kill 58 people in the wor...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump comes ahead with fresh criticism of Russia inquiry

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump expressed renewed frustration Sunday over the investigations into alleged ties between his campaign associates and Russian government officials, saying on...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

JFK files release leaves real-life whodunit unsettled

WASHINGTON – Botulism pills. Conspiracy theories. What the government might have known and still won’t say about Lee Harvey Oswald. The release of thousands of records relating to...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Power of anti-Trump resistance in question in Virginia race

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s gubernatorial election stands as a test for the anti-Donald Trump resistance, and whether it can energize voters and donors for the less glamorous races featuring ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

10 dead, more than 11 wounded in Mogadishu hotel blast

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A suicide car bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 11, while gunfire could be heard ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Pres...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World