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  • HEALTH

    Some damage reported from 5.7 quake in N. Calif.

    A moderate earthquake centered in rural northeastern California but felt in two other states damaged some homes and ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water in the densely forested region, officials said Friday.

  • NATIONAL

    Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers

    The Arizona Department of Public Safety has launched an investigation into lawmakers' safety after at least nine legislators received threatening emails over Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid.

  • NATIONAL

    Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession

    A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and guns.

  • NATIONAL

    APNewsBreak: Co. says it has permits to cross span

    A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span into a river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.

  • NATIONAL

    Suspect in killing of officer found dead in cell

    A Utah Army veteran charged with killing a police officer and wounding five others in a shootout during a marijuana raid was found Friday hanging dead in his cell, authorities said.

  • NATIONAL

    Top 10 items found during 2012 coastal cleanup

    The Ocean Conservancy, a Washington D.C.-based environmental organization, released its 2012 list of trash collected during its International Coastal Cleanup. More than 10 million pounds of debris was collected globally, with more than 769,000 pounds collected in California alone. The top items ...

  • NATIONAL

    'Unusual condition' seen before Conn. train wreck

    The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done last month in the area of the crash.

  • NATIONAL

    Syria targeted Israeli jeep going to rebel village

    Syria says it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence.

  • NATIONAL

    Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.

  • NATIONAL

    Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

    After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.

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