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Execution draws near for only woman on Georgia’s death row
ATLANTA (AP) – In a last ditch effort to keep their client alive, lawyers for the only woman on Georgia’s death row have filed a flurry of appeals with high courts of both the United States and the...
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Only woman on Georgia’s death row is executed
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) – The only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed early Wednesday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades. Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced...
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Clerk who rejected licenses for gays says she met with pope
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky clerk who went to jail for defying a federal court’s orders to issue same-sex marriage licenses says she met briefly with the pope during his historic visit to the...
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UAW workers appear to have rejected Fiat Chrysler contract
DETROIT (AP) – It appears that United Auto Workers union members have voted down a four-year contract deal with Fiat Chrysler. Members at large assembly plants in Toledo, Ohio, and Sterling Heights,...
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Bees swarm patrol car in Oklahoma
GARVIN COUNTY, Oklahoma (CNN) – Bees swarmed a patrol car in Oklahoma following a tractor trailer crash Tuesday. The officers were trapped inside the patrol car when thousands of angry honey bees were...
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Ailing Florida boy deputized for a day, fights zombies with local cops
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) – Spencer Holt has always wanted to be a member of law enforcement, using his badge to battle the bad guys – specifically zombies. At 7 years old, you’d think he would...
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Wisconsin drunk driver sentenced to spend victim’s birthday in jail
(WBAY) – A Waupaca County woman who struck and killed an 18-year-old man will spend his birthday in jail, as well as the anniversary of the day she hit Dylan and every Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,...
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Prosecutors decline to charge Caitlyn Jenner in fatal crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prosecutors declined to charge Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday in a California car crash that led to the death of another driver, saying there was not enough evidence for a conviction....
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1 killed, 1 injured in shooting at western Kentucky plant
PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky woman has died of what police say appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and another person was injured in a shooting at a ConAgra Foods plant. Princeton police...
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Titanic’s last lunch menu, from Money Boat, goes for $88,000
NEW YORK (AP) – The Titanic’s last lunch menu, saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was said to have been bribed to row away instead of rescue more people, sold at...
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Texas mom charged with neglecting 5 kids; 1 near death
BOWIE, Texas (AP) – A Texas mother is accused of abandoning her five children after police found them starving, filthy and, in the case of a baby, near death while her 8-year-old son was left in charge...
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Vatican observers raise questions over clerk’s pope visit
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – The private meeting Pope Francis held with defiant Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is a strong papal endorsement of religious resistance to gay marriage, but it doesn’t necessarily mean...
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California TV station airs newscast from lawn after bomb threat on building
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) – Southern California TV station KABC-TV had to do its afternoon newscast from the building’s front lawn after a bomb threat. The station’s anchors, David Ono and Ellen Leyva,...
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Ben Carson raises $20M for ’16 bid in past 3 months
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Political newcomer Ben Carson raised more than $20 million in the past three months to fuel his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign said Wednesday, a...
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Obama signs stopgap spending bill that averts shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has signed a short-term spending bill that averts a government shutdown and gives Congress and the president about 10 more weeks to fashion a longer-lasting...
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Suspected freeway shooter could face 100 years in prison
PHOENIX (AP) – A man suspected in some of the freeway shootings that rattled the Phoenix area could go to prison for 100 years if convicted, Maricopa County’s top prosecutor said Wednesday. Maricopa...
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Immigrants say about-face on visas costs them millions
SEATTLE (AP) – A sudden about-face by the State Department has left tens of thousands of highly skilled immigrants unable to apply to become legal permanent residents as they had expected to on...
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Emails: Russia-linked hackers tried to access Clinton server
WASHINGTON (AP) – Russia-linked hackers tried at least five times to pry into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account while she was secretary of state, emails released Wednesday show. It is...
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Hurricane Joaquin gains force near Bahamas, heads toward US
MIAMI (AP) – A strengthening Hurricane Joaquin approached the central islands of the Bahamas on Wednesday evening, following a projected track that would take it near the U.S. East Coast by the...
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Clinton raises $28M in past 3 months, Sanders just behind
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raised more than $24 million for his presidential campaign in the past three months, his campaign said Wednesday, nearly matching the $28 million take of...
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