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    Chicago-area teen charged with hate crime in attack on Sikh
    Nation, News
    Chicago-area teen charged with hate crime in attack on Sikh
    Sep 15, 2015
    WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago teenager already charged with punching a Sikh man during what authorities describe as a road rage incident has...
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    AP PHOTOS: LGBT people in conservative S. Korea find hope
    News, World
    AP PHOTOS: LGBT people in conservative S. Korea find hope
    JULIE YOON 
    Sep 15, 2015
    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Just after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized nationwide same-sex marriage, tens of thousands of people gathered in front of S...
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    Mom found with dead son in playground swing indicted
    Nation, News
    Mom found with dead son in playground swing indicted
    MATTHEW BARAKAT 
    Sep 15, 2015
    LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — The facts are hard to fathom: a mother alone with her 3-year-old son in a playground for two days straight, pushing him in a swin...
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    Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict
    Nation, News
    Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict
    CLAIRE GALOFARO and DYLAN LOVAN 
    Sep 15, 2015
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he m...
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    Guatemala’s rock star: Quiet jurist who took down president
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    Guatemala’s rock star: Quiet jurist who took down president
    SONIA PEREZ D. 
    Sep 12, 2015
    GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's newest celebrity is a tall, stoic, 60-year-old jurist with thinning hair and a gray beard, who can't walk the street...
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    California lawmakers approve right-to-die legislation
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    California lawmakers approve right-to-die legislation
    DON THOMPSON 
    Sep 12, 2015
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their live...
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    Chris Brown granted joint custody of daughter in Texas
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Chris Brown granted joint custody of daughter in Texas
    Sep 12, 2015
    HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has granted R&B singer Chris Brown joint custody of his young daughter in Texas. A judge in Houston on Friday agreed with Brown...
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    The Latest: Watchdog slams migrant conditions in Hungary
    News, World
    The Latest: Watchdog slams migrant conditions in Hungary
    The Associated Press 
    Sep 09, 2015
    STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees. All times local (CET...
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    Clerk in gay-marriage fight back to work Friday or Monday
    Nation, News
    Clerk in gay-marriage fight back to work Friday or Monday
    ADAM BEAM 
    Sep 09, 2015
    MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will ret...
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    Mother of right-to-die advocate Maynard writing book
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Mother of right-to-die advocate Maynard writing book
    Sep 08, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Brittany Maynard, the brain cancer patient who became a leading advocate for the right to die, is working on a memoir. T...
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    Huckabee, Cruz plan to meet with jailed Kentucky clerk
    Nation, News
    Huckabee, Cruz plan to meet with jailed Kentucky clerk
    DYLAN LOVAN 
    Sep 08, 2015
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two Republican presidential candidates planned jailhouse meetings Tuesday with Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, raising her conservati...
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    New federal requirements on cellphone surveillance
    Nation, News
    New federal requirements on cellphone surveillance
    ERIC TUCKER 
    Sep 05, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials will be routinely required to get a search warrant before using secretive and intrusive cellphone-...
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    The Latest: 3rd gay couple gets marriage license
    Nation, News
    The Latest: 3rd gay couple gets marriage license
    Sep 04, 2015
    MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The latest on the county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue marriage licenses since the Supreme Court legalized gay marri...
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    Judge jails Kentucky clerk for refusing marriage licenses
    Nation, News
    Judge jails Kentucky clerk for refusing marriage licenses
    ADAM BEAM 
    Sep 03, 2015
    ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscien...
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    Plan targets health care bias against transgender people
    Nation, News
    Plan targets health care bias against transgender people
    RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 
    Sep 03, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration proposed Thursday to ban discrimination against transgender people throughout the health care system, carry...
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    Federal judge orders Kentucky clerk and her staff to court
    Nation, News
    Federal judge orders Kentucky clerk and her staff to court
    CLAIRE GALOFARO 
    Sep 01, 2015
    MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky who invoked "God's authority" Tuesday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage has been summ...
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    Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans
    WILLIAM J. KOLE 
    Aug 31, 2015
    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Some faces are pensive; others are proud. Some are known; others are obscure. All are black. Rare, striking and never-before-s...
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    Poland’s mixed feelings over memorial to rescuers of Jews
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Poland’s mixed feelings over memorial to rescuers of Jews
    VANESSA GERA 
    Aug 30, 2015
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As a Catholic Pole, Elka shouldn't even have been in the ghetto of Czestochowa, in southern Poland. But the nanny was so devoted...
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    Q&A: Questions, answers in Planned Parenthood controversy
    Nation, News
    Q&A: Questions, answers in Planned Parenthood controversy
    BRIAN MELLEY 
    Aug 29, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Planned Parenthood Federation of America is defending its abortion practices and its donation of fetal tissue for medical research....
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    Standoff over gay marriage licenses wears on, despite ruling
    Nation, News
    Standoff over gay marriage licenses wears on, despite ruling
    CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM 
    Aug 29, 2015
    MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A familiar scene repeated itself at a rural Kentucky courthouse: a gay couple marched into the clerk's office, requested a marria...
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
    August 3, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK  — A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke...
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Here's how they work — and when they're used
    By KING JEMISON  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 3, 2025
    (TNS) — Kaysi Ricker's phone buzzed with a flash flood warning. She scrambled down to the creek behind her house to clean up the toys her niece and ne...
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    Lifestyles
    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    August 3, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I recently reconnected with a woman I dated briefly in the 1980s and haven't seen since. She's around my age. We both were married one year...
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
    August 2, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
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    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    Business, Nation & World, PA State News
    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    By CHARLES THOMPSON pennlive.com 
    August 2, 2025
    (TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    By STEVE SHERK Jr.  Special to The Era  
    August 2, 2025
    Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
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