Dockworkers strike averted for now

Sin City getting ready for New Year’s Eve

Senate approves $60.4 billion Sandy aid bill

Western character actor Harry Carey Jr. dies in Santa Barbara

Man pushed to death in front of New York subway train

NEW YORK (AP) - A mumbling woman pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday night, the second time this month someone has been killed in such nightmarish fashion, police said.

Mass shootings voted top 2012 news story

Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

Gun group offers training for Utah teachers

Law students charged in Vegas bird beheading

'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dies

YRE Wacky Track

Storm blows through East; 200,000 in dark

Chief of staff: Bush getting excellent treatment

Obama invites congressional leaders to cliff talk; milk may spike $2 a gallon

College turtle project takes dark twist

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Prof suspended over tweet won't return in 2013

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The chancellor of the University of Kansas announced Thursday that a journalism professor suspended over a tweet that angrily targeted the National Rifle Association after the Navy Yard shootings will not return to his classroom in 2013.

Website contractors point fingers.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just prior to going live.

Demolition begins on Sandy Hook school building

Demolition begins on Sandy Hook school building

Dallas police seek indictment for fired officer

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas police will seek a grand jury indictment against an officer who was fired after shooting a mentally ill man in a disputed incident caught on tape, police said Thursday.

2 shot at National Guard armory

Oswald wedding ring sells for $108K at auction

City needs sand due to eroding beaches

PORT HUENEME, Calif. (AP) - For one California beach city, every grain of sand counts. Port Hueneme, home to a naval base and about 20,000 residents, is starved for sand because Congress has not allocated enough money to help repair the city's badly eroded beaches, according to the Ventura County. The city is supposed to receive extra sand every two years through nearby dredging by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But the most recent ...

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CLASSMATE: ACCUSED MASS. TEEN STAYED AFTER SCHOOL: DANVERS, Mass. (AP) - A teacher who was allegedly killed by one of her students had asked him to stay after school the day she was killed, a classmate said Thursday, as students met with grief counselors and tried to come to grips with the slaying of the popular teacher.

NYC teen sues Barneys, police on purchase hassle

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York teen has filed a lawsuit against high-profile department store Barneys, the city and its police department over an incident in which he says he was wrongfully detained after making an expensive purchase because he is a young black man.

Family wants answers in funeral mix-up

CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) - The family of Jerry Moon wants to know how the wrong body ended up in his casket at his Washington state funeral. Family members were horrified Monday when they looked in the casket and saw the body of another man, The Chronicle reported Tuesday. They have hired a lawyer and asked the state Department of Licensing to investigate. Moon, a retired railroad conductor from Castle Rock, died Oct. 13 at Community ...

Sign-up snags, fix-it efforts detailed

WASHINGTON (AP) - On the defensive, the Obama administration acknowledged Wednesday its problem-plagued health insurance website didn't get enough testing before going live. It said technicians were deep into the job of fixing major computer snags but provided no timetable.

Babies born with HIV may be cured

ATLANTA (AP) - Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus - a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and fast such cases should be treated.

CDC says stomach bug linked to cilantro, salad mix

Man gets 6 years after DUI crash confession

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man who acknowledged his confessional video would give prosecutors what they needed to put him away for a long time for a fatal wrong-way car crash was proved mostly right Wednesday when a judge sentenced him to 6 1/2 years in prison.