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  Feds Propose Overhaul For Child Care Centers

  Posted 7:49 AM 5/16/2013

  Federal health officials say they want to overhaul federally funded child care facilities across the country, beefing up safety standards for employees and requiring states to better monitor the facilities.Roughly 1.6 million children across the U.S. attend child care on federal (More)

  
  

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  Suspect Arrested In Parade Shooting

  Posted 7:47 AM 5/16/2013

  NEW ORLEANS - Authorities have arrested the man wanted in a Mother's Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans after he was identified in surveillance video that showed him running from the scene as the crowd scattered in all directions, police said.Akein Scott, 19 (More)

  
  

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  Andy Williams Auction Brings $46M

  Posted 7:41 AM 5/16/2013

  NEW YORK - Singer Andy Williams' eclectic art collection has brought $46 million at a New York City auction.The works sold on Wednesday, the first of a two-day sale at Christie's.The late singer's taste ranged from contemporary, impressionist and modern to Latin American (More)

  
  

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  Obama: IRS Acting Commissioner Has Resigned Amid Scandal

  

  Posted 5:34 PM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has submitted his resignation in the aftermath of an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups. Obama says Treasury Secretary Jacob (More)

  
  

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  Jury Finds Arias Eligible for Death Penalty

  

  Posted 5:10 PM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  PHOENIX (AP) - The same jury that convicted Jodi Arias of murder one week ago took about three hours Wednesday to determine that the former waitress is eligible for the death penalty in the stabbing and shooting death of her one-time lover in his bathroom five years ago. The decision (More)

  
  

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  White House Releases Trove of Benghazi Documents

  

  Posted 4:30 PM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more detail publicly released, including a warning issued from the (More)

  
  

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  Holder Defends Subpoenas for AP Telephone Records

  

  Posted 3:02 PM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement. Pestered by Republicans (More)

  
  

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  Jurors in Arias Case Weigh Death Penalty Option

  

  Posted 3:01 PM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  PHOENIX (AP) - Prosecutors on Wednesday tried to convince jurors that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty, saying Travis Alexander suffered tremendous pain as he fought for his life while Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times. The trial resumed with a new phase (More)

  
  

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  7 Year Old Escapes Kidnapper

  

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  Posted 2:38 PM 5/15/2013

  SACRAMENTO (KCRA) - A 7-year-old girl kidnapped in Sacramento, California managed to escape from her abductor's trunk, police said Monday.

  The girl was walking with her mother and another sibling Saturday when a man pulled up alongside the trio in a vehicle and grabbed the child.

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  Miracle Survivor: Woman Pinned Between Car and Tree

  

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  Posted 11:39 AM 5/15/2013

  CALIFORNIA (KSEE) - Betsayda Hernandez is in a wheelchair, recovering from a broken right leg, and a bruised left leg, but not long ago - pinned between her car and a tree - she thought her injuries would be much worse.

  "I think I'm going to lose my legs," she says.

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  Holder to Face Tough Questions Before House Judiciary Committee

  

  Posted 11:06 AM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder is facing what is likely to be aggressive questioning by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on topics ranging from the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press to the government's handling of intelligence (More)

  
  

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  Abortion Doctor Gets Third Life Sentence for Murder

  

  Posted 10:54 AM 5/15/2013 by Associated Press

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been sentenced to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus." Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive (More)