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2 small planes diverted during Obama's Fla. visit
SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two F-16 fighter jets intercepted a small plane that violated airspace restricted for President Barack Obama's visit to the Tampa Bay area. The president campaigned Saturday morning in Seminole before heading...
Tags: Key West, Bill Lewis, Barack Obama, North American Aerospace Defense Command
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AP-GfK poll: Raise taxes to save Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say go ahead and raise taxes if it will save Social Security benefits for future generations. And raise the retirement age, if you have to. Both options are preferable to cutting monthly benefits, even for people...Tags: Retirement, Career and Workplace, Parties and Movements, James Taylor, Elections
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Child's death after dental sedation ruled accident
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Officials have ruled the death of a 5-year-old boy after being sedated for dental work as an accident. The Gainesville Sun (http://bit.ly/rLV1pG) reports that the Alachua County Sheriff's Office released a report Friday...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Alachua County, Accidental Death
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Terry Jones sues Dearborn over pre-protest letter
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A Florida minister whose rhetoric against Muslims has inflamed anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan has sued the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, saying it is violating his free speech rights by asking him to sign an agreement...
Tags: Afghanistan, Religion and Belief, Islam
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City can't require waiver before mosque protest
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge says a Detroit suburb can't require a Florida minister to clear the city of liability in exchange for a permit to protest outside a mosque. The Rev. Terry Jones has sued Dearborn, saying the city is...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Child-on-child sex abuse poses complex challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — Recent high-profile cases of child sex abuse have roused national revulsion against the adults who perpetrated them. Rarely mentioned is the sobering statistic that more than one-third of the sexual abuse of America's children is...Tags: Health, University of New Hampshire, Criminals, Pittsburgh, Medical Research
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Troopers: At least 9 dead in wrecks on I-75 in Fla
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say at least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in north Florida. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan says the pileups happened...Tags: Florida Highway Patrol, Highway Transportation
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Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former...Tags: Health, Weather Statistics, Botulism, U.S. Department of the Interior, Wisconsin
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Builder files copyright infringement suit against Weises
A homebuilder is suing former Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis and his wife, Maura, and their builder, alleging they infringed on its copyright when building their Hannah & Friends complex for the developmentally disabled.
Plaintiff Garden...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Litigation, House Building
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Ex says woman threw his mom's ashes at window
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman faces charges after her ex-boyfriend accused her of hitting him and throwing his mother's ashes through a window during an argument. Gainesville police say 22-year-old Ashley Renee Oxendine was retrieving...Tags: Florida
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Students die trapped in frigid Ga. cave waterfall
LaFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) — Two college students have died in a Georgia cave after rappelling into a waterfall and getting stuck under the frigid water. Authorities in the north Georgia mountains say the two men from the University of Florida apparently...Tags: Health, Landforms, Climbing, Colleges and Universities, Physical Conditions
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Sheriff: Man 'pocket dials' 911, drug talk heard
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia man "pocket-dialed" 911 and the dispatcher on the other end overheard people discussing a drug deal. The Hall County sheriff's office says no one was on the call made around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday....Tags: Crimes, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Hydrocodone (drug), Georgia
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