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Security increased at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab in NM

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have been ordered to increase security, but they won't say why. In a press release Friday afternoon, the lab said that the National Nuclear Security Administration has directed it to increase security immediately,

UN: 4 peacekeepers killed in Darfur shooting

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A peacekeeper serving with the joint U.N.-African Union force in Darfur opened fire on fellow peacekeepers, killing four and injuring one, the United Nations said Friday. Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force, said the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, known as

A week after school massacre, new details emerge

By KATIE ZEZIMAAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - As the nation paused to mark a week since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details emerged Friday about the gunman, Adam Lanza, who acquaintances said was able to take apart and reassemble a computer in a matter of minutes but

Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere

By GENARO C. ARMAS and JOE MANDAKAssociated Press HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural township on Friday before he was shot dead in a gunfight with state troopers. Three