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Fight to save hemlocks takes new tack
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STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press 
Mar 16, 2014
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the mi...
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Will missing jet prompt change in aviation system?
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SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Airlines Writer 
Mar 16, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has exposed wide gaps in how the world's airlines — and their regulators — operate. ...
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Obama says health care program stable
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DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent 
Mar 15, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a disastrous start and relentless Republican opposition, President Barack Obama said Friday that enrollment in his signature...
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Spring break in Florida: Here come the tourists
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MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL, Associated Press 
Mar 15, 2014
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — From portable beach jails to extra emergency medical staffing, Florida is coping with the annual — but not altogether unwelcome...
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Rescuers searching rubble from NYC blast
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VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press 
Mar 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a ga...
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APNewsBreak: Transgender troop ban faces scrutiny
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LISA LEFF, Associated Press 
Mar 14, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there "is no compelling medical reason" for the U.S....
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Kerry: US, EU will react if Crimea annexed
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LARA JAKES, Associated Press MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press 
Mar 14, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is warning Russia that it will face an immediate, "very serious series" of steps from the United State...
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Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew dies
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BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press BRENT KALLESTAD, Associated Press 
Mar 14, 2014
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, who guided the state through a period of school busing to achieve integration in the 1970s,...
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Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths
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SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Airlines Writer 
Mar 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't supposed to be any mysteries in the Digital Age. The answers to most questions, it seems, can be found using Google or Tw...
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Police: Driver kills 2 at South by Southwest fest
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CHRIS TALBOTT, Associated Press 
Mar 13, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A man and woman on a moped were killed early Thursday when a suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades a...
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Toll rises to 7 in NYC blast
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JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press 
Mar 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies overnight from the rubble of tw...
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