Associated Press

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition

AP Top Stories - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 11:20am
DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday....
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic

AP Top Stories - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 10:07am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him....
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A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back

AP Top Stories - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 8:24am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute....
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1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball

AP Top Stories - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 1:39am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million....
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Pacers knock out Knicks with 106-99 win in Game 6

AP Top Stories - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 12:53am
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana spent the entire season perfecting its defense....
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Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 9:46pm
MALMO, Sweden (AP) -- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine....
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No Triple Crown: Oxbow upsets Orb at Preakness

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 9:11pm
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Right from the start, a horse trained by one not so over-the-hill Hall of Famer and ridden by another took control of the Preakness. The result: a huge upset and the end of any hopes for a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes....
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 8:24pm
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals....
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Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 7:56pm
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning....
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2 fires north of LA persist after long fire week

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 5:33pm
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A pair of persistent wildfires continued to burn in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles on Saturday, although authorities were slowly getting the upper hand....
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What to watch for at the Preakness

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 5:08pm
BALTIMORE (AP) -- All eyes will be on Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. The 3-year-old colt will take on eight challengers in the second leg of the Triple Crown. If he wins, Orb will attempt to become the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978 at the Belmont Stakes on June 8. In the Preakness, Orb will be facing five horses he defeated in the Derby and three who did not run in the race....
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Orb trainer McGaughey fights nerves at Preakness

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 5:06pm
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Early Saturday morning, Shug McGaughey was walking back and forth in front of the stakes barn at Pimlico....
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Obama agenda marches on despite controversies

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 3:47pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office....
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GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law

AP Top Stories - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 12:33pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Barack Obama's health care law....
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