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AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents
3 hours ago
 AP - In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.
Hanna rolls into Connecticut with heavy rain
11 hours ago
 AP - Tropical Storm Hanna rolled into Connecticut on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, wind gusts and oppressive humidity.
Once-powerful Pa. senator faces long fraud trial
4 hours ago
AP - A longtime power broker in Pennsylvania politics earned nearly $100,000 a year as a state senator, up to $1 million a year as a rainmaking lawyer and millions more from the sale of a family bank.
Deadly crashes bring FAA focus on Reno air races
4 hours ago
AP - It's billed as "the world's fastest motor sport."
Much has changed in Wash. elections since 2004
5 hours ago
 AP - Washington state's last governor's race ended in controversy with three counts, a court challenge and an astonishingly close margin of victory for the current governor.
Afghan tribal leader set for trial in NYC
5 hours ago
AP - "Afghanistan is in anarchy," the one-time Taliban ally recalls telling his tribesmen. "Americans are establishing our future government."
SF Bay area officer, 2 others killed in gun fight
18 hours ago
AP - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.
Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open
29 hours ago
AP - Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision.
4th Pa. teen charged in killing of immigrant
29 hours ago
 AP - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.
Democrats post big gains in voter registration
11 hours ago
 AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
26 hours ago
 AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
Don't take it off end near for NYC smut palace
27 hours ago
 AP - The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut.
Crash with suspect's SUV kills Philly officer
23 hours ago
AP - A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday.
40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites
23 hours ago
 AP - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.
House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb
24 hours ago
AP - An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed.
Hanna dumps rain on mid-Atlantic, heads north
19 hours ago
 AP - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.
7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close
27 hours ago
AP - It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.
High-resolution satellite launched in California
25 hours ago
AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
Ex-NJ politician headed to trial on fraud charges
26 hours ago
AP - A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension benefits from $28,000 a year to $81,000.
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