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Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security....
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Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
HAVANA (AP) -- A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered....
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UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated
LONDON (AP) -- Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London....
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Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday....
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13 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thirteen paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction....
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Parents sue Pittsburgh Zoo in boy's mauling death
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The parents of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled after falling into a wild African dogs exhibit last fall have sued the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, claiming officials had ample warning that parents routinely lifted children onto a rail overlooking the exhibit so they could see better....
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Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg - so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4....
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$250k bail set in Pa. infant's faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bail is set at $250,000 each for Philadelphia parents who believe in faith healing over medicine and have had two children die of pneumonia....
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W. Pa. parks announce summer events
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The National Park Service has announced a series of summer events at five western Pennsylvania parks....
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Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A publisher is planning to release a newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck later this year, describing it as a coming-of-age novel about a young man who travels the world....
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State police: Ex-Pa. judge stole coke from cases
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him....
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US mayors group holds technology summit in Philly
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors is holding a summit in Philadelphia on technology and innovation....
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Cent. Pa. students try to hopscotch to record
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Students at a central Pennsylvania elementary school slated to close hope they can hopscotch their way into the Guinness Book of World Records before the school's doors are shut for good....
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Pa. teacher cleared in fondling, faces second case
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher has been acquitted on charges that he fondled a then-12-year-old boy during a Christmas visit which the teacher, and several defense witnesses, testified never occurred....
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