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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/13/13 08:15 PM
Hitters lead Nats to rubber-match victory
DENVER -- Ryan Zimmerman homered, doubled and drove in three runs, Ian Desmond got four hits and the Washington Nationals beat the depleted Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Thursday....
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/13/13 07:25 PM
Late-arriving Lefty takes an early lead
ARDMORE, Pa. -- So much for getting a good night's sleep.
Phil Mickelson arrived at Merion Golf Club about four hours before his 7:11 a.m. tee time and still managed to shoot a...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/13/13 10:47 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an early test of support for a comprehensive immigration bill, the Senate on Thursday voted down a Republican attempt to require the U.S.-Mexico border to be under control for six months before...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 09:40 PM
Point guard day-to-day with hamstring strain
SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Parker, along with all of San Antonio, really, spent a restless night worrying about a gimpy right hamstring that hampered him in Game 3 of the NBA Finals...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 09:40 PM
Takes responsibility for getting Heat on track
SAN ANTONIO -- A day later, LeBron James didn't back down.
When the Miami Heat were embarrassed by 36 points in Game ?3 of the NBA Finals, James took all the blame and...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 09:40 PM
Jets QB competition is wide open, Rex says
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The New York Jets' quarterback competition is still wide open -- with no clear-cut winner in sight.
Rex Ryan isn't sure whether it'll be Mark Sanchez or...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 07:05 PM
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The Legislature adjourned Tuesday for the second time this year without a budget agreement, and will return Wednesday to continue their work in a second overtime session called earlier in the day by...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 07:00 PM
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of more low-income adults in Michigan would become eligible for government-funded health insurance under legislation backed Wednesday by a divided House committee.
The 9-5...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 07:00 PM
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine lawmakers have advanced a proposal to expand health coverage to 70,000 low-income people.
The Democratic-controlled House on Wednesday gave all but final approval to a bill to expand...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 07:00 PM
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion despite outrage from conservative Republicans who have been cut out...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:55 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- A proposal to eliminate plastic foam takeout containers in New York City was met with criticism Wednesday by restaurateurs who said a ban on the ubiquitous containers would drive up costs and potentially...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:55 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Gov. Tom Corbett's top human services aide said Wednesday that she will meet with a federal official as she explores how to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of adults in a way that...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:55 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina Senate panel endorsed a tax overhaul Wednesday that gradually repeals corporate income taxes without a major expansion of sales taxes.
The new Republican plan approved by the...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:55 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Memo to supporters of bipartisan legislation moving to the Senate floor: Make sure you stress that immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally would have to work, learn English, pass a background check...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:05 PM
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The worst may be over for drivers in the upper Midwest who have been grappling with the highest gasoline prices in the continental U.S.
Analysts said one major Illinois refinery is back online and...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:05 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Undervalued coal sales have cost the U.S. an estimated $62 million in potential lost revenues in recent years, according to a Tuesday report from federal investigators who recommended broad changes...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:00 PM
The price of oil was down slightly but remained above $95 a barrel Wednesday as experts said global demand for crude would be slightly lower than previously expected.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for July...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:00 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Disparate interests ranging from environmental activists to businesses and industry are lining up to support a first-of-its-kind deal between the U.S. and China to phase out a chemical blamed for...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:00 PM
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A senior Iraqi official on Wednesday said his country expects to ramp up oil production to 4.5 million barrels per day by the end of next year from around 3.5 million barrels now, thanks to work by a...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:00 PM
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Ethiopia's leader has vowed that no one will stop a $4.2 billion energy project that is diverting the flow of the Nile River.
His comments come a day after Egypt's president warned that all...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 05:55 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its support behind federal legislation aimed at boosting energy development in Indian Country by streamlining federal permitting processes and oversight....
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 12:37 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation drew public debate over how organs are allocated was getting a lung transplant Wednesday, her family said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/11/13 10:16 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department's inspector general says former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson collected $450,000 in questionable payments from the nation's federally funded nuclear labs after she left office.
A...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/10/13 10:01 PM
Comes into U.S. Open as a major champion
ARDMORE, Pa. -- Adam Scott can understand why so many people thought he would have a hard time getting over his epic collapse in the British Open.
They didn't understand his...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/10/13 10:00 PM
Bruins, Blackhawks excel at penalty kill
CHICAGO -- When it comes to power plays in the Stanley Cup finals, the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins might just prefer to keep going with everyone on the ice.
The last...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/10/13 12:20 AM
Two Original Six teams duke it out for trophy
CHICAGO -- Two franchises, rich in history, talent and star power. Two winning teams that know what it takes to bring home the Stanley Cup. Intrigue in the form of a...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/10/13 12:00 AM
Clay-court master rolls through Ferrer in final
PARIS -- Rafael Nadal's final shot at the French Open was a typically ferocious fallaway forehand, and when it landed for a winner, his momentum and emotions sent him...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/05/13 09:30 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 100 firefighters have been battling a 4-alarm fire in a Capitol Hill hardware store that sent up plumes of smoke that could be seen for miles in Washington.
The fire broke out at Frager's...
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/05/13 04:07 PM
President Obama honors Superbowl XLVII Champion Baltimore Ravens.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/05/13 03:05 PM
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year pleaded guilty Wednesday then described shooting each victim, telling...
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