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Vegas police seek vehicle in gas station hit-run
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Mark Ivancic 
Feb 24, 2014
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police were hoping Monday that distributing a security video of a car striking a man in the parking lot of a convenience st...
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Governors erupt in partisan dispute at White House
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NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press 
Feb 24, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into...
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Seafaring drug smugglers challenging Coast Guard
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ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press JULIE WATSON, Associated Press 
Feb 24, 2014
SAN DIEGO (AP) — While security has tightened at the U.S. border, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas. The area where boats were ...
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Obama to propose changes to wildfire funding
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JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent 
Feb 24, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's upcoming budget will include a proposal to change the way the federal government pays to fight wildfires, a...
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Governors: ‘Obamacare’ here to stay
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KEN THOMAS, Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press 
Feb 24, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The explosive politics of health care have divided the nation, but America's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest tha...
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Mexico’s Sinaloa drug chief arrested
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ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press KATHERINE CORCORAN, Associated Press 
Feb 22, 2014
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, the Asso...
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Coal-ash dumps threaten community
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MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press 
Feb 22, 2014
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — From his modest home near the Cape Fear River, Sam Malpass can glimpse the tall stacks of Duke Energy's Sutton Steam Electric ...
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At Winter Olympics, an X Games breaks out
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TIM DAHLBERG AP Senior Sports Writer 
Feb 22, 2014
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Without them the U.S. would have just a few gold medals, and NBC would have trouble getting the younger eyeballs it needs to just...
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