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Romney visits food bank in fire-stricken Colorado

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By KASIE HUNTAssociated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is visiting a food bank in southern Colorado that's working to help victims of the region's wildfires. Romney on Tuesday stopped by Care and Share in Colorado Springs to help box up

Wildland firefighters win federal health benefits

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By DAN ELLIOTTAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - President Barack Obama will make federal health insurance available to about 8,000 temporary wildland firefighters, a White House official said Tuesday. Despite the grueling and dangerous work they do, the 8,000 firefighters aren't covered by

Fire brings challenges at Washington state college

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By SHANNON DININNYAssociated Press TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) - A fire at a private, liberal arts college in Washington state has left school officials scrambling to ensure academics aren't adversely affected and grateful that more wasn't lost for the largely minority students who make up the

CVS, Deere withdraw from political group

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By MAE ANDERSONAP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Drugstore operator CVS Caremark and tractor maker Deere & Co. are the latest companies to withdraw from conservative political group the American Legislative Exchange Council. Many major corporations have had ties with the group, known as ALEC,

Thousands of wildfire warnings undelivered in Colo

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - More than 20,000 evacuation calls were never delivered to residents in the path of a wildfire that destroyed about 350 homes around Colorado Springs last month, records show. It was the second time in five months that Colorado residents said they didn't get calls

Family of US soldier sues security firm over death

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By GREG RISLINGAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The family of a California soldier killed in Afghanistan sued a military contractor for rehiring an Afghan national as a security guard after he allegedly threatened to attack U.S. troops and eventually killed two service members and wounded four

4-alarm Philly warehouse fire results in 1 injury

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A four-alarm fire in a vacant north Philadelphia warehouse left a firefighter injured after a fall and disrupted public transit, authorities said. The blaze in the four-story building in the Fishtown section of the city was reported at about 2:30 a.m. The flames burned out of

Idaho Firefighters Gain Ground On BIG Fire But Still Struggle

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - More firefighters were headed to an Idaho wildfire that was sparked by a Saturday lightning storm and has spread to 190,000 acres. The Bureau of Land Management says the fire was no longer threatening homes in the Castleford area, west of Twin Falls

Pa. mayor cuts city workers' pay to minimum wage

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By MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press A fiscal and political crisis in the nearly-broke northeastern Pennsylvania city of Scranton deepened Tuesday as public employee unions sought to have the mayor held in contempt of court after he defied a judge and slashed workers' pay to minimum wage.

Egypt's president flexes power, but cautiously

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By HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - The faceoff between Egypt's new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened Tuesday, with parliament defying orders to disband and the highest court slapping back at Mohammed Morsi in what has become an early glimpse into how he may