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Susie Wheldon heads to Indy 500 to honor husband
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) Some days are better than others for Susie Wheldon, and there's rarely any warning what will trigger the emotional roller coaster she's been on since husband Dan Wheldon's fatal crash in last year's IndyCar finale. A
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Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
LAS VEGAS (AP) It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon. If
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Tales of lunar rocks through the years
LAS VEGAS (AP) The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few: CASINO MAGNATE:
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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff. The launch of
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Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry
WASHINGTON (AP) From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summers and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry. Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love"
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US executions go from town square to behind bars
America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons. Driving the change was the quest for a less gruesome even less painful method
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Small dairies go under as milk prices sink again
PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) With milk prices projected to fall and fuel costs high, more small dairy farms are going out of business. Vermont has lost 14 dairy farms this year. A few have started up, but overall, the number of
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Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed
WASHINGTON (AP) Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says. She says
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5 Western states shielding part of executions
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat. The ruling established
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Obama to address Air Force graduates in Colorado
WASHINGTON (AP) Fresh off back-to-back international summits, President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy, his annual speech to service academy graduates. Obama will speak Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, days after wrapping up
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Quotations of the day
"Iran wants to destroy Israel, and it is developing nuclear weapons to fulfill that goal." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminding world powers they need to be tough after the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that the
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Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota
MINOT, N.D. (AP) North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. Heidi Heitkamp,
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US Army more selective on recruits, re-enlistments
WASHINGTON (AP) Uncle Sam may not want you after all. In sharp contrast to the peak years of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Army last year took in no recruits with misconduct convictions or drug or alcohol issues, according
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Romney oil adviser also a big super PAC donor
WASHINGTON (AP) Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after
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Romney shifting focus from economy to education
NEW YORK (AP) Mitt Romney is wading into a new policy arena the nation's education system as he broadens his focus to appeal to general election voters still getting to know President Barack Obama's likely opponent. The presumptive Republican presidential
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Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some
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Report: More support needed for kinship caregivers
NEW YORK (AP) As more of America's children are raised by relatives other than their parents, state and local governments need to do better in helping these families cope with an array of financial and emotional challenges, a new report
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TransUnion: Late auto-loan payments down in 1Q
LOS ANGELES (AP) The rate of late payments for auto loans fell nationally in the first three months of the year to the lowest level in more than a decade, even as lenders financed more vehicle purchases for high-risk borrowers.
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New Mexico says jet fuel spill could be larger
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A decades-old jet fuel spill threatening Albuquerque's water supply could be as large as 24 million gallons, or twice the size of the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez, New Mexico environment officials acknowledged Tuesday. Officials previously
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Passenger's suspicious claim diverts Paris-US jet
BANGOR, Maine (AP) A US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears
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APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story
LOS ANGELES (AP) Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The
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Gender-violence claim added to NYC lawsuit vs. DSK
NEW YORK (AP) Dominique Strauss-Kahn's infamous encounter with a hotel housekeeper reflected a pattern of misogynistic behavior by the former International Monetary Fund leader, she said in court papers adding a new claim Tuesday to her sexual-assault lawsuit against him.
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Coast Guard cutter heading to Philippines
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) In a ceremony of maritime pomp, the 45-year-old decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas was transferred to the Philippine Navy on Tuesday. About 100 military personnel and visitors gathered on a wind-swept pier at the old
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Jury sees video of GI buying bomb-making items
WACO, Texas (AP) A Muslim soldier on the run for three weeks after going AWOL from a Kentucky Army post found no help from friends in his Dallas-area hometown, where he hatched a plan and bought supplies to blow up
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Ford to get blue oval back after second upgrade
DETROIT (AP) Ford Motor Co. is getting its blue oval logo back. Moody's Investors Service raised Ford's debt ratings to investment-grade Tuesday for the first time in seven years. The upgrade means that all of Ford's U.S. assets, including factories,
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