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Bipartisan negotiators reach modest budget pact
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shedding gridlock, key members of Congress reached a modest budget agreement Tuesday to restore about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon....
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Obama hails Mandela as "last great liberator"
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Amid cheers and song for the prisoner who became peacemaker, President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state Tuesday with a plea for the world to emulate Nelson Mandela, "the last great liberator of the 20th century."...
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AP PHOTOS: Thousands gather to remember Mandela
They gathered by the tens of thousands in a Soweto soccer stadium, braving a cold rain to pay respects to Nelson Mandela: world leaders, family members and South Africans whose lives he helped change in his decades-long fight against apartheid. The list of dignitaries was long, ranging from President Barack Obama to Cuban President Raul Castro. And a handshake between those two men epitomized the spirit of reconciliation Mandela came to represent....
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Gunmen abduct Syria's leading human rights lawyer
NABEK, Syria (AP) -- Masked gunmen abducted a leading Syrian human rights lawyer and three other prominent activists in a rebel-held Damascus suburb Tuesday in a new sign that al-Qaida linked militants who have joined the fight against President Bashar Assad are trying to silence rivals in the opposition movement....
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NC limousine driver charged in wreck that killed 2
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Police in Asheville have charged the driver of a limousine driver involved in a wreck that killed a Pennsylvania couple....
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Pa. treasurer questions handling of pension probe
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's elected state treasurer said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday that lawyers for Gov. Tom Corbett have mishandled an investigation into unspecified possible misconduct by the chief investment officer of the $26 billion state government employees' pension fund....
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No bail for 2 charged in Philly collapse
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A judge has ruled that two men facing charges in a Philadelphia building collapse that killed six people will remain behind bars until their next court date in February....
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House advances child-abuse reforms
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced several pieces of a child-abuse reform package stemming from the Jerry Sandusky and Roman Catholic clergy scandals....
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Suit: Marine's body sent home to Pa. without heart
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart - and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else's heart in its place....
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Pa. joins NE, Atlantic states in pollution action
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania is joining a petition with eight other northeast and mid-Atlantic states to ask the federal government to require nine upwind states to reduce air pollution emissions....
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Snow delays planes, closes schools, then exits Pa.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A fresh layer of snow meant a day off for tens of thousands of kids around Pennsylvania on Tuesday as another storm closed schools, delayed flights and made travel difficult through parts of the state....
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Top Pa. doc predicts brief shortage of physicians
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The Pennsylvania Medical Society president says a brief shortage of physicians is likely as more people in Pennsylvania get insurance under the federal health care law....
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Melvin appeal cites alleged bias of trial judge
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin contends a judge denied her a fair trial before a jury convicted her of campaign corruption because he was biased against her in his rulings and comments he made in the courtroom....
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New life for a shutter church has some eager
SHEPPTON, Pa. (AP) -- A shuttered church could get new life in Sheppton....
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