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September 12, 2012

U.S. defends anti-terror monitoring

Officials call for renewal of the international surveillance program and say it is not a tool for spying on Americans.
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September 12, 2012

Job-based health care costs rise 4 percent

WASHINGTON — Annual premiums for job-based family health insurance went up just 4 percent this year, but that’s no comfort with the price tag approaching $16,000 and rising more than twice as fast as wages. The annual survey released Tuesday by two major research groups served as a glaring reminder that the nation’s problem of […]
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September 12, 2012

Ex-professor admits killing 3 colleagues in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A former biology professor accused of pulling a gun from her purse and opening fire at a faculty meeting pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2010. Amy Bishop, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two […]
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September 12, 2012

Indonesian men lead smokers list

A survey in that country finds that 67 percent of all males over 15 years old smoke.
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September 12, 2012

Chief artist for Howard Hughes dies at age 91

Mario Armond Zamparelli oversaw the appearance of everything having to do with Hughes' fleet of airplanes and his casinos.

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September 12, 2012

D.C. professor under fire for nursing baby in class

The ensuing flap centers on whether she behaved professionally and how she reacted to publicity.
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September 12, 2012

Gay athlete: Kiss got him booted from N.D. football team

DICKINSON, N.D. — A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said. North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowledges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but says […]
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September 12, 2012

Death at Gitmo still under investigation

The Yemeni man, held since 2002, was known as being combative and having a history of mental illness.
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September 12, 2012

World, Nation Dispatches, Sept. 12, 2012

JERUSALEM Netanyahu says world, U.S. failing to set limits on Iran Israel is sounding increasingly agitated over what it views as American dithering with economic sanctions too weak to force Iran to end its suspected drive toward nuclear weapons. In a clear message aimed at the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday criticized […]
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September 12, 2012

Foul stench traced to inland California sea

SANTA ANA, Calif. — An intense rotten egg smell that had Southern Californians plugging their noses and crying foul Monday was coming from the Salton Sea. Air quality investigators confirmed Tuesday that the foul stench that stretched across Southern California was the result of a huge fish die-off at the saltwater lake 150 miles […]