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March 13, 2014
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former medical technician at a Philadelphia abortion clinic that authorities called a 'house of horrors' was…
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March 13, 2014
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag…
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March 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum Thursday directing the Labor Department to devise new overtime rules...
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March 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Several lawsuits filed against McDonald's this week say the fast-food chain engages in a variety of…
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March 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for…
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March 13, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The athlete has been in a Los Angeles jail since Feb. 27, when he turned himself…
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March 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The pioneers of hip-hop are hoping to create a museum in New York City dedicated to…
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March 13, 2014
OPINION - It takes an impressive mix of incompetence and arrogance to be as bad as the New York Knicks…
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March 12, 2014
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ended months of speculation about her political future on Wednesday when she announced…
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March 12, 2014
PHOENIX (AP) — Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper was indicted in Arizona on charges of sexual assault and administering…
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March 12, 2014
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Zimmerman said in a videotaped interview with his divorce attorneys that he was trying to figure…
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March 12, 2014
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison…
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March 12, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will direct the Labor Department to strengthen overtime pay protections for millions of workers,…
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March 12, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City fire department says an East Harlem apartment building has exploded and collapsed,…
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March 12, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jonathan Martin has had Jim Harbaugh's support all along, from his early college days at Stanford…
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March 11, 2014
CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP) — Director Spike Lee will attend a 25th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at late movie…
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March 11, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the retrial of three Pittsburgh police officers — one who has…
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March 11, 2014
OPINION - State Rep. Pat Garofalo became the latest, in a long line of bigots, to let the immediacy of…
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March 11, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hamming it up online to promote his health care plan...
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March 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - This Women’s History Month, I’ve been thinking frequently about Pauli Murray, a radical black woman who failed…