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Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos

By TRACIE CONEAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history. In Vermont, a video of veal calves skinned alive and tossed like sacks of

Rockefeller impostor on trial for murder

By LINDA DEUTSCHAP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) - To his neighbors in an upscale Pasadena suburb, he was the man from nowhere, a newcomer who joined the church, ingratiated himself to elderly residents and called himself Chris Chichester. They invited the stranger into their homes in San

Last anti-Chavez TV station to be sold

By FRANK BAJAK and JORGE RUEDAAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The last remaining television station critical of Venezuela's government is being sold to an insurance company owner who is apparently friendly with the ruling socialists, its owners announced Monday, following an

Philly coming to grips with mass school closings

By KATHY MATHESONAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - When ninth-grader Zach Kaufmann found out his school was one of 27 targeted for closure in Philadelphia, he fought back. He joined a youth activist group, attended numerous community gatherings and even addressed district leaders at a public