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What now for gun control? A look at the issue

By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The impassioned push for new gun laws, born from the slaughter of schoolchildren, has collided with the marble-hard realities of Congress. Just persuading the Senate to debate tougher laws was considered a high hurdle for gun control advocates. They

Pa. man's apparent suicide leaves 3 others dead

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and RON TODTAssociated Press QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Friends and neighbors were stunned and saddened by the deaths of four family members who appear to have died of carbon monoxide fumes that resulted from the husband's apparent suicide. Bucks County District Attorney David

Chavez heir charges US is behind unrest over vote

By VIVIAN SEQUERA AND FABIOLA SANCHEZAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's president-elect blamed the opposition Tuesday for seven deaths and 61 injuries that the government claims have occurred in disturbances protesting his election, and he accused the U.S. of organizing the

Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer

By DEEPTI HAJELAAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most well-known media outlets in claiming a Pulitzer Prize, the highest honor in journalism. InsideClimate