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  Fleeing Ore. man pleads to be pulled from river

  Posted 11:10 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  IRRIGON, Ore. (AP) - Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did. Morrow County Sheriff Ken Matlack told the East Oregonian officers (More)

  
  

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  Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail

  Posted 11:09 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant. Police spokeswoman Dani Myren says officers were sufficiently concerned about the thickness of (More)

  
  

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  Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled

  Posted 11:08 PM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived. Officials at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center tell the Greenwich Time (http://bit.ly/14wsum4 ) they had removed the only male (More)

  
  

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  Franks pushes ban on US abortions after 20 weeks

  Posted 2:21 PM 5/17/2013

  WASHINGTON (AP) - An Arizona congressman wants a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Republican Rep. Trent Franks had introduced a bill that would ban such procedures only in the District of Columbia. But following the Kermit Gosnell case, he plans to amend it so (More)

  
  

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  Udall tells USFS to override air tanker protest

  Posted 2:19 PM 5/17/2013

  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado is urging the U.S. Forest Service to make sure a contract dispute doesn't ground large air tankers used to fight wildfires. Missoula, Mont.-based Neptune Aviation on Thursday formally protested a recent U.S. Forest Service decision to (More)

  
  

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  Congress gets mixed advice on regulating drones

  Posted 11:14 AM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The growing use of unmanned "eyes in the sky" is raising many privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what to do about civilian drones. Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union tells a House subcommittee that a law is needed to prevent (More)

  
  

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  Unemployment falls in 40 US states, rises in 3

  Posted 8:02 AM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Solid hiring helped push down unemployment rates in 40 U.S. states last month, the most since November. The declines show job markets are improving in most areas of the country.The Labor Department says unemployment rates only rose in Louisiana, Tennessee and North (More)

  
  

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  House chairman sees IRS errors as part of pattern

  Posted 6:34 AM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party and conservative groups seems to be part of a culture of cover-ups and political intimidation by the Obama administration.The remark by Republican (More)

  
  

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  Ousted IRS chief: Errors not caused by politics

  Posted 6:14 AM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views.In a prepared statement, former acting IRS (More)

  
  

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  'Hatchet hitchhiker' arrested in NJ homicide

  Posted 11:59 PM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press

  ELIZABETH, N.J. - They were an unlikely pair - an itinerant hitchhiker turned Internet celebrity and a lawyer three times his age. Now the hitchhiker is charged with beating the lawyer to death. Caleb "Kai" McGillvary was arrested in Philadelphia Thursday and charged with (More)