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Cops ID driver in NY girl's 1968 hit-and-run death

Cops ID driver in NY girl's 1968 hit-and-run death
FULTON, N.Y. (AP) - Carolee Sadie Ashby's family has spent the past 45 years wondering who was driving the car that fatally struck the 4-year-old girl as she crossed a street in her upstate New York hometown on Halloween night. Thanks to a retired detective's Facebook post, authorities

Cops ID driver in NY girl's 1968 hit-and-run death

Cops ID driver in NY girl's 1968 hit-and-run death
FULTON, N.Y. (AP) - Carolee Sadie Ashby's family has spent the past 45 years wondering who was driving the car that fatally struck the 4-year-old girl as she crossed a street in her upstate New York hometown on Halloween night. Thanks to a retired detective's Facebook post, authorities

NM slaughterhouse ground zero in horse debate

NM slaughterhouse ground zero in horse debate
By JERI CLAUSINGAssociated Press ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - About five miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be home to any number of small agricultural businesses. But Valley Meat Co. is no longer just

A look at immigrant patients deported by hospitals

A look at immigrant patients deported by hospitals
By DAVID PITTAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid paying for long-term care after serious illness or injury. The Center for Social Justice at Seton

US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home

US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home
By DAVID PITTAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico. The men had health

US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home

US hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home
By DAVID PITTAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico. The men had health

Haliburton seeking settlement over Gulf oil spill

Haliburton seeking settlement over Gulf oil spill
By MICHAEL KUNZELMANAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP's cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 announced Monday that it is trying to negotiate a settlement over its role in the disaster, a focus of trial testimony that ended last week. Halliburton

Stocks edge down at the start of big earnings week

Stocks edge down at the start of big earnings week
By STEVE ROTHWELLAP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Investors remained cautious at the start of a big week for company earnings on Wall Street. About a third of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, including Exxon Mobil and Apple, are reporting earnings this week. Analysts

Halliburton posts 1Q loss on litigation charges

Halliburton posts 1Q loss on litigation charges
By DAVID KOENIG and BREE FOWLERAP Business Writers DALLAS (AP) - Halliburton Co. said Monday that it lost money in the first quarter after adding $637 million to the reserve it has to cover litigation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It's also in talks to settle most claims related to

Search ends for fishermen missing off Texas coast

Search ends for fishermen missing off Texas coast
By JUAN A. LOZANOAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) - John Reynolds and the four others aboard the Nite Owl weren't worried when the thunderstorms made it impossible for the commercial fishing boat to return back to shore. They'd seen this kind of weather before. They did what they normally