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New approach tested for hard-to-treat hypertension
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Maxed out on the medications," is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day....
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Concert on National Mall shut down by thunder
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Memorial Day Concert has been canceled due to a line of thunderstorms that moved into the District of Columbia on Sunday night....
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3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho National Guard rescuers plucked a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter from a snow-covered mountain-side Sunday afternoon, more than 15 hours after the trio survived a nighttime plane crash onto a steep, forested slope in a remote part of the state....
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Labor board member accused of leaks resigns
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday....
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Long road for NYC prosecutors in Etan Patz case
NEW YORK (AP) -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases....
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2 brothers sentenced to death in separate states
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a pipe during an attempted escape....
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AP IMPACT: Almost half of new vets seek disability
America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate. Government officials say that 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. Officials tell The Associated Press that...
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Some states asking the tax man to get tougher
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percen...
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Panetta: US on 'right track' in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday defended the Obama administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war in Afghanistan, saying the U.S. is on "the right track."...
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Gay students graduate openly at military academies
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking ...
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Panetta: US on 'right track' in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war in Afghanistan....
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AP Photos: Americans honor troops for Memorial Day
Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. In Little Rock, Ark., a 4-year-old girl fills her arms with flags to place on graves....
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Senator asks airlines to drop seat fee for kids
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra....
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Beryl threatens rain, winds on southeast US coast
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Subtropical storm Beryl crept Sunday toward the Southeast U.S. coastline, threatening to churn up dangerous surf and drenching rains for a soggy close to the long Memorial Day weekend along beaches from northeast Florida to South Carolina....
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Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes
NEW YORK (AP) -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it....
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Small plane sinks in San Diego Bay, 2 survives
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The pilot and passenger of a banner-towing plane made an emergency landing on San Diego Bay and were plucked out of the water before the aircraft sank, authorities said Saturday....
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W.Va. police find 4 bodies in wooded area
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia State Police say they have found four bodies in a wooded area and believe they are those of a missing man, his girlfriend and his two young children....
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Roll call for May 27
Here's how members of North Carolina's congressional delegation voted on major issues in the week ending Friday. The House was in recess.
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Charity: Widow of pilot of United Flight 93 dies
DENVER (AP) -- The wife of the pilot of the United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on 9/11 has died of what her charity said was natural causes....
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Report: Miami officer shoots, kills naked attacker
MIAMI (AP) -- A Miami police officer on Saturday fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown causeway off-ramp, police and witnesses said....
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Plane crash at southern Utah airport kills 4
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) -- Authorities say a small plane has crashed at a municipal airport in southern Utah, killing all four people on board....
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Woman shot by homeowner faces trespassing charge
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A 21-year-old Colorado woman who was shot in the hip by a homeowner after police said she drunkenly wandered into a house now faces a felony trespassing charge, prosecutors said....
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Mich. wildfire grows to more than 21,000 acres
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) -- A wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula grew by 17 percent to more than 21,000 acres Saturday as officials warned of tough conditions and welcomed help from water-dumping aircraft from the Michigan National Guard....
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Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces
GOLD HILL, Ore. (AP) -- Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up two homeless people and a motel owner....
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Break in Patz brings hope, tears to other families
After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of "closure."...
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