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Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead
SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open....
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Aid group: Syrian refugees face dire health risks
BEIRUT (AP) -- An international aid organization is appealing for more funds to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan, saying warmer weather will increase health risks due to lack of shelter, water and basic sanitation....
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Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim arrangement....
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Russian TV: American accused of spying flies out
MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported....
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Paper: Drilling damage in 161 Pa. water supplies
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper....
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In 2013 Pa. primary, most action in the cities
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- In Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, most of the action will be in Democrat-controlled cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and Harrisburg....
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Jurors to mull death penalty in Pa. slayings of 12
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole....
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Ohio newspaper editor David Miller dead at 66
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- Editor David C. Miller of The (Bowling Green) Sentinel-Tribune newspaper in Ohio died Saturday at a hospital in York, Pa., the paper said in a statement. He was 66....
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Criticism flares around new Pa. graduation tests
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students....
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Philly flower show ends with million-dollar loss
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- This year's Philadelphia Flower Show ended with a loss of about $1.2 million, and officials are blaming fears of a winter snowstorm during the week of the show that they say were whipped up by television and radio reports....
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Man shot dead in alleged western Pa. heroin deal
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities in western Pennsylvania have charged two men in a shooting death that investigators say occurred during an attempted heroin transaction....
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Rocky Gap Casino offers new deal in western Md.
FLINTSTONE, Md. (AP) -- The flashy jangle of slot machines is a far cry from the stillness of Rocky Gap State Park in western Maryland, but state and local leaders are betting that this week's planned casino opening will transform a struggling lakeside lodge into the economic engine its planners envisioned 15 years ago....
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