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Broke RI city mayor quits amid corruption charge

By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI and MICHELLE R. SMITHAssociated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The longtime mayor of struggling Central Falls resigned and has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge of accepting gifts in exchange for handing out a lucrative contract to board up city houses,

US seafood catch reaches 17-year high

By CLARKE CANFIELDAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The U.S. seafood catch reached a 17-year high last year, with all fishing regions of the country showing increases in both the volume and value of their harvests. Commercial fishermen last year caught 10.1 billion pounds of fish and

Woman in airport rape case just trying to breathe

DENVER (AP) - A woman who says she was raped at Denver's airport by a man who spoke with her at a bar says she didn't scream because she was being choked. The Denver Post reports (http://bit.ly/RxlgFO) the woman, now 23, told jurors Tuesday that she stopped saying no and was just trying to

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records. The ice cap at the North Pole measured 1.32 million square miles on Sunday.