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Budget calls for 4 percent spending increase at VA
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Published: Fri, Apr 5, 2013
(AP) -- President Barack Obama's budget proposal will include nearly a 14 percent spending increase for that part of the VA responsible for attacking a growing backlog of veterans' disability claims -- a problem that officials warned is likely to worsen in coming months. All told, the...
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Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green lead Capitals to comeback win at Carolina
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Updated: Tue, Apr 2, 2013
Stars propel comeback with two goals each RALEIGH, N.C. -- Alex Ovechkin had two goals and an assist, and Washington beat Carolina 5-3 on Tuesday night despite allowing three goals to Jiri Tlusty. Mike Green scored two goals, Joel Ward added a goal, Nicklas Backstrom matched a career high...
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Matt Wieters and Chris Davis homer as Orioles power past Rays
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Published: Tue, Apr 2, 2013
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Baltimore played like a confident bunch that's left 2012 behind and is intent on proving a surprising breakthrough season wasn't a fluke. Adam Jones keyed a seventh-inning rally with a go-ahead double and Chris Davis followed with a three-run homer Tuesday to help the...
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Capitals collapse in third period, fall to Flyers in overtime
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Updated: Sun, Mar 31, 2013
Washington allows tying goal in final 10 seconds of regulation PHILADELPHIA -- Jakub Voracek stuck up for his captain, putting the Philadelphia Flyers in a hole. His teammates bailed him out in a big way. Ruslan Fedotenko scored 1:34 into overtime after Kimmo Timonen got the tying goal with...
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Great escape for Maryland in win over Alabama
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Updated: Tue, Mar 26, 2013
Victory sends Terps to MSG for NIT semifinals TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alex Len finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds and had a key block in the final seconds to help Maryland escape with a 58-57 victory over Alabama on Tuesday night in the NIT quarterfinals. Len's fifth block came on Rodney...
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Win at Bay Hill propels Tiger Woods back to No. 1 in world
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Updated: Mon, Mar 25, 2013
Victory is sixth in his last 20 PGA events ORLANDO, Fla. -- The moment was vintage Tiger Woods, and so was his reaction. Seconds after Rickie Fowler made a 40-foot birdie putt on the 12th hole to pull within two shots of the lead, Woods posed over his 25-foot birdie putt until he swept the...
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Florida Gulf Coast stuns Georgetown 78-68
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Published: Fri, Mar 22, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Sherwood Brown scored 24 points and Bernard Thompson had 23 to lead Florida Gulf Coast to an incredible NCAA tournament debut, a 78-68 win over second-seeded Georgetown on Friday night in the second round of the South Regional. The Eagles, in their second season of being...
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3 dead, including suspect, in Marine base shooting
Updated: Fri, Mar 22, 2013
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — A Marine killed a male and female colleague in a shooting at a base in northern Virginia before killing himself, officials said early Friday. Authorities were called to the scene at Marine Corps Base Quantico around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, where they found one...
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Tournament first-day roundup: Gonzaga survives a scare
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Updated: Thu, Mar 21, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY -- It was every frontrunner's nightmare. Top-seeded Gonzaga ran into a No. 16 seed that wasn't playing like one, a crowd itching for an upset and the very real prospect of making history in a most embarrassing way. Somehow, the Zags maneuvered their way out of that mess...
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Federal government still pays veterans benefits to children of Civil War veterans
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Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat. An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the...
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