| California college visit turns tragic Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:37 AM PDT  Ten deaths confirmed in crash involving tractor-trailer and bus carrying students.
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| Nation on red alert as aftershocks rattle Nicaragua Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:39 AM PDT  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's president is placing his government on the highest alert level as aftershocks rattle the country following a magnitude-6.1 earthquake.
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| Ford Mustang turns 50: How a car caused a global sensation Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:01 AM PDT  Next week's 50th anniversary of the first Ford Mustang evokes a long-ago day when new cars could generate as much excitement, at least in America, as new iPads. Instead it was simply a smartly styled body mounted atop the underpinnings of a pedestrian compact car, the Ford Falcon. One Ford executive boasted, in the idiom of the day, that it was like "turning a librarian into a sexpot." Yet with room for four, the Mustang was surprisingly practical. That price was for the basic six-cylinder engine, but buyers could add extra-cost (and handsomely profitable) options, including an automatic transmission, air conditioning, convertible top and a 289-cubic-inch V8 engine.
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| Obama nominates Burwell to lead HHS Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:01 AM PDT  After accepting Sebelius's resignation, the president taps his budget director to succeed her.
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| Woman to appeal sentence in new husband's death Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:09 AM PDT  A Montana woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her new husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer plans to appeal her 30-year prison sentence for his death.
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| Armstrong provides names in written testimony Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:14 AM PDT  Lance Armstrong says several people knew about his performance-enhancing drug use and insists he didn't pay anyone to keep his doping secret.
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| Feds issue warning: Hackers trying to exploit 'Heartbleed' bug Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:17 AM PDT  Hackers are targeting vulnerable networks in an attempt to exploit the "Heartbleed" bug, the U.S. Government warned on Friday.
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| Suspect in deadly Fla. day care crash to remain in jail Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:02 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl was killed and 14 people were injured, was ordered Friday to stay in jail until a judge can determine whether he is a flight risk.
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| Australian PM confident sounds are from Flight 370 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:39 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities are confident that signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, Australia's prime minister said Friday, raising hopes they are close to solving one of aviation's most perplexing mysteries.
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| Pistorius, prosecutor in heated exchange over girlfriend's screams Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:20 AM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was accused by a prosecutor Friday of shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door as the couple talked and argued in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. The dramatic courtroom exchange ended the world-famous athlete's first week testifying at his murder trial.
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| Kathleen Sebelius, a lightning rod for critics, resigns Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For five years, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been a lightning rod for critics of President Barack Obama's health care law. But with sign-ups exceeding expectations and a new face soon to be in charge at HHS, the White House is eager to see if the poisonous atmosphere might give way to more pragmatic efforts aimed at fixing problems with the nation's newest social program.
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| Energy co. offers $250,000 reward in startling Silicon Valley grid attack Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. offered a $250,000 reward Thursday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a startling attack mounted nearly a year ago on telephone lines and the power grid in Silicon Valley.
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| 9 dead as bus, truck crash in California Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:35 AM PDT  A FedEx truck slams into a tour bus carrying high school students to visit a college.
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| Australian PM says searchers confident of position of MH370's black boxes Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:10 AM PDT  By Swati Pandey and John Ruwitch PERTH/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Search and rescue officials in Australia are confident they know the approximate position of the black box recorders from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday. "Still, confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost four and a half kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on the flight." The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago, has sparked the most expensive search and rescue operation in aviation history. The search was focusing on a small patch of the Indian Ocean on Friday, after the latest "ping" seemed to lend credence to four previous "pings" detected by a U.S. Navy "Towed Pinger Locator" (TPL) towed by Australia's Ocean Shield vessel. But Angus Houston, head of the Australian agency supervising the search effort, said on Friday that analysis of acoustic data confirmed that the latest signal was unlikely to be related to the missing plane's black boxes.
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| Who is Stephen Colbert, really? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:19 PM PDT  When CBS announced Stephen Colbert as David Letterman's successor on the "Late Show," speculation immediately surfaced over what that meant. Mr. Colbert quickly answered the question with a release through his publicist, stating, "I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. But the question now is: Will his core fans – passionate members of the Colbert nation, a cohort that skews younger than the 50-year-old Colbert and one that CBS dearly wants to woo – be as eager to find out as well? "CBS is taking an incredible risk," says Paul Levinson, a professor at Fordham University in New York and author of "New New Media." "The only reason Colbert is successful and people love him is because they love the satirical character he plays on Comedy Central."
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| More than 100 get virus on California cruise Posted: 10 Apr 2014 11:04 PM PDT  Princess Cruises says most passengers have recovered quickly from highly contagious norovirus.
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| U.S. ambassadors court the world in campaign-style videos Posted: 10 Apr 2014 10:02 AM PDT  The State Department introduces newly confirmed ambassadors with slick videos that would not be out of place in a presidential campaign. The target: people, not governments.
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| Driver in deadly Fla. day care crash in custody Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:30 PM PDT  WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A manhunt across Florida ended Thursday with the surrender of a driver blamed in a deadly crash at a day care that injured 14 and killed a 4-year-old girl who was sitting in a classroom awaiting her afternoon snack.
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| New findings suggest 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' not modern forgery Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:56 AM PDT  According to a newly published study in the Harvard Theological Review, the controversial fragment known as the Gospel of Jesus's Wife dates to between the sixth and ninth centuries and could possibly date back as early as the second to fourth centuries.
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| Ebola fears spread as outbreak worsens Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:22 PM PDT  Emergency measures taken across west Africa to contain one of worst-ever outbreaks, threatening every country in region.
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| When illness, medical bills overwhelmed, couple turned to crowdfunding Posted: 10 Apr 2014 12:31 PM PDT  Blake Britton has cancer, and he and his wife, Vicki, are expecting their first child in May. Their friends have launched an online fundraiser to help cover the couple's significant medical expenses.
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| What did Russia know about Boston attack? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:43 PM PDT  Information Russia withheld from U.S. could have made difference in marathon bombing, report says.
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| Obama: More work ahead on civil rights Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:39 PM PDT  On 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act, president cautions, "story of America is a story of progress."
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| 5 charged after FBI rescue of NC prosecutor's father Posted: 10 Apr 2014 08:02 PM PDT  WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days in what authorities described as act of retaliation involving the Bloods street gang.
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