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Feds spend millions on immediate post-fire effects

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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Nearly $25 million has already been spent to prepare for the immediate aftermath of this year's wildfires, putting the U.S. Forest Service on track for another possible record year of spending on burned-area recovery efforts. So

Ind. woman rejects plea deal in death of newborn

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By CHARLES WILSONAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Chinese immigrant who Indiana prosecutors say ate rat poison when she was eight months pregnant rejected a plea agreement Friday that would have negated a murder charge in her newborn baby's death. Bei Bei Shuai turned down prosecutors

Thomson Reuters lines up against gay marriage ban

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By PATRICK CONDONAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The legal, business information and media company Thomson Reuters said Friday that an amendment to ban gay marriage in Minnesota would be bad for business. Prominent companies including General Mills and St. Jude Medical spoke out earlier

Asian carp DNA found in year-old Lake Erie samples

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By JOHN FLESHERAP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Genetic material from Asian carp has been discovered in Lake Erie water samples collected nearly a year ago, officials said Friday. Researchers with the University of Notre Dame, Central Michigan University and The Nature

Records: Navy doc let family handle Marine's brain

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) - A Navy medical examiner took a Marine's brain out of a specimen jar and let his children handle the organ, records show. Dr. Mark E. Shelly has been fined $2,500 by the Virginia Board of Medicine and fired from his part-time job with the state medical examiner's

Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck dead at 77

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By BOB THOMAS and LYNN ELBERAssociated Press Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) - Film producer Richard Zanuck, who won the best picture Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" and was involved in such blockbuster films as "Jaws" and "The Sting" after his father, Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, fired him from

Jury: Man killed wife, girl over paternity results

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A jury convicted a man Friday of murdering his wife and her 6-year-old daughter in California after a paternity test revealed the child was not his. The Riverside County jury found Michael Barbar, 55, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Maysam

Boy Hit By Truck Near Athol, Idaho

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ATHOL, Idaho - Kootenai County Emergency crews responded to a report of a person hit by a vehicle, Friday afternoon at 12:30. When they arrived they found a nine year-old boy who was breathing but unresponsive. MedStar transported the boy to an area hospital. Idaho State Patrol is investigating

UN blames regime forces for Syria massacre

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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - The U.N. singled out government forces Friday for blame in the latest massacre in Syria, a frenzy of killing that raises new questions about whether diplomacy has any chance to end the crisis more than 16 months into the

Baseball great pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud

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By GREG RISLINGAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former All-Star outfielder Lenny Dykstra pleaded guilty Friday and could face 20 years in prison for hiding and selling sports memorabilia and other items that were supposed to be part of his bankruptcy filing. Dykstra, 49, entered his plea in U.