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Laughter, tears as former first lady Barbara Bush remembered
HOUSTON (AP) -- Barbara Bush was remembered as the "first lady of the Greatest Generation" during a funeral Saturday attended by four former U.S. presidents and hundreds of other people who filled a Houston church with laughter as much as tears, with many recalling her quick wit and devotion to family....
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Road to N. Korea's denuclearization is littered with failure
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Bill Clinton offered oil and reactors. George W. Bush mixed threats and aid. Barack Obama stopped trying after a rocket launch....
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Israel's Lieberman blames Hamas over Gaza deaths
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel's defense minister said Saturday that Hamas leaders are the "only culprits" in continued bloodshed on the Gaza border, as the European Union and a top United Nations official made new demands to investigate shootings of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, including the killing of a 14-year-old boy....
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Nicaragua's Ortega agrees to talk as deadly protests rage on
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Saturday that his government is willing to enter into talks over social security reforms that have sparked four days of protests and clashes in which, rights monitors say, at least 25 people have died. A journalist covering the unrest was also killed....
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GOP plan to impeach 4 Pennsylvania justices remains in limbo
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A proposal to impeach four Democratic justices on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court over redistricting rulings remains in limbo more than a month after resolutions were introduced by Republicans in the state House....
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Pennsylvania mayor accused of soliciting prostitute
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- State police have arrested the mayor of a Pennsylvania town on charges of soliciting and patronizing a prostitute....
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Ex-Allentown mayor asks judge to reverse conviction
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The former mayor of the Pennsylvania city of Allentown is asking a federal judge to reverse his conviction on charges of trading city contracts for campaign cash....
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Fire in south Philadelphia home kills 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Authorities say two people died in an early morning house fire in south Philadelphia....
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2 dead, 1 wounded in shooting in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police say a woman and a man were killed and another man wounded by gunfire in north Philadelphia near Temple University's main campus....
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Man convicted of 2nd-degree murder in teenage girl's death
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of a teenage girl shot on a Pittsburgh street in what authorities called a drug deal gone wrong....
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Robot designed for faster, safer uranium plant pipe cleanup
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio crews cleaning up a massive former Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant in Ohio plan this summer to deploy a high-tech helper: an autonomous, radiation-measuring robot that will roll through miles of large overhead pipes to spot potentially hazardous residual uranium....
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Defense says schedules show Cosby wasn't around for assault
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors got a look Friday at Bill Cosby's travel records as his lawyers made the case that he never visited his suburban Philadelphia mansion in the month he is accused of drugging and molesting a woman there....
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Fraternity house suspended as 2 students allege sex assaults
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Temple University fraternity house where two teenage students said they were sexually assaulted has been suspended, and police are investigating....
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State lawmaker attacks fellow lawmaker as 'lying homosexual'
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Republican state lawmaker in Pennsylvania is calling a colleague a "lying homosexual" in a Facebook post attacking liberal legislators....
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