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    April 15, 2013

    Nation & World Dispatches

    SARATOGA, Calif. Three teens originally cited for misdemeanors in suicide Three boys arrested last week on suspicion of sexually abusing a 15-year-old Northern California girl who later took her own life were initially cited on misdemeanor allegations in the case, authorities said. The investigation in September turned up only enough evidence to support citations for […]

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    April 15, 2013

    Gun rights group splits with NRA, backs deal

    A bill to expand background checks has some 'wins' for the gun lobby, the endorsement shows, heartening supporters.

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    April 15, 2013
    STUDENTS COPING

    The ABCs of self-control help spell success

    Schools are seeing the benefits of new approaches to education

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    April 15, 2013

    Custom pharmacies lack state oversight

    A report says authorities know little about facilities like the one at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak.

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    April 15, 2013

    Files on priests nearing release

    LOS ANGELES – When the Rev. John Anthony Salazar arrived in Tulia, Texas, in 1991, he was warmly welcomed by the Roman Catholic community tucked in the Texas Panhandle. What his new parishioners didn’t know was he’d been hired out of a treatment program for pedophile priests — and that he’d been convicted for child […]

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    April 15, 2013

    Venezuelan voters choosing president in Chavez’s wake

    Acting President Nicolas Maduro and challenger Henrique Capriles both hint at victory at the polls.

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    April 14, 2013

    Writing assignment on Jews goes awry

    NEW YORK – New York school district officials have placed a high school English teacher on leave for having students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment. The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive argument by writing a letter to a […]

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    April 14, 2013
    A reveller dances while wearing a mask of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher during a party celebrating her death in London

    Critics mock Thatcher’s death

    LONDON – Hundreds of opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher partied in London’s Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death, sipping champagne and chanting “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead.” Thatcher’s most strident critics had long vowed to hold a gathering in central London on the Saturday following her passing, and the festivities were an […]

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    April 14, 2013

    Bedbugs foiled by a folk remedy, study finds

    Kidney bean leaves are used as bug-traps in Europe, so researchers tried to copy the custom.

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    April 14, 2013
    David Wheeler, Francine Wheeler, Katy Sherlach, Bill Sherlach

    Newtown parents air personal plea

    A mother and father take the president's place for his weekly radio address.