Ryan prepares to take on skilled debater Joe Biden

End of the line for returnable Coca-Cola bottle

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PA. STUDENTS DISCIPLINED FOR PIC OF DJ WITH BRAS: IRWIN, Pa. (AP) - A school district has disciplined students after a disc jockey posted a Facebook picture in which he holds bras thrown at him during a recent homecoming dance.

49ers offense seeks another big day against NY Giants Sunday

Biden likely to play 'hardball' in VP debate with Paul Ryan

Republicans hammer witnesses on Libya attack

Alice Cooper helps launch rock academy for South Dakota youth

What are you doing on 10-11-12?

Details of fatal beauty surgery at Pa. hotel

2 dead, 1 trapped in parking garage collapse

State Dept. officials say they didn't link Libya attack to video; at odds with Obama

US to warn about counterfeit air bags

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POLICE: MAN TRIES TO ROB BANK OF $1 IN PRISON BID: NORTHERN CAMBRIA, Pa. (AP) - A man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby, police said.

Police: Student took LSD before shooting

Big Bird flies high in 2012 presidential campaign via Obama television ad spot

THEY STILL RESONATE

DALLAS (AP) - A 1930s-era movie theater. A county hospital. An old brick rooming house. A bustling airport.

Inmates learn tech from Silicon Valley pros

SAN QUENTIN (AP) - The budding entrepreneurs wear blue sweat pants labeled "prisoner" and huge, flapping blue shirts. Their doors are triple locked, and lunch is a stale peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Complicating matters, participants in this growing Silicon Valley startup incubator are barred from the Internet.

Big backlog in death rulings ion SF

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A shortage of forensic pathologists at the San Francisco medical examiner's office is leading to long delays in issuing death certificates that include a cause of death.

Report: Underground leak sites go unmonitored in California

SANTA ANA (AP) - A new report says hundreds of underground leak sites will go unmonitored by the state under a policy change.

Natural gas fire rings for beach fires?

NEWPORT BEACH (AP) - The Newport Beach City Council will weigh whether to test natural gas-burning fire rings on certain beaches as part of a pilot project with anti-pollution regulators.

Convict who inspired 3 strikes law released

FRESNO (AP) - A man whose long rap sheet inspired California's three strikes law is back living in Fresno after being released under the state's prison realignment law.

Lawmakers seek to ban imitation toy firearms

SANTA ROSA (AP) - California lawmakers want to ban the manufacture and sale of imitation firearms like the one a 13-year-old boy was carrying when he was fatally shot by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy last month.

Rabbi whose good friend became the pope

More than 1 in 10 kids has ADHD

ATLANTA (AP) - The number of U.S. children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder continues to rise but may be leveling off a bit, a new survey shows.

Deliveryman finds teddy bear bomb

Mass. teacher's throat cut and partially naked

Gun group considered leaving Newtown

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - The gun industry's national trade association and lobbying organization considered moving its offices from Newtown after last year's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the president and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

Trail of Tears sign displayed at football game

DYERSBURG, Tenn. (AP) - Students at a Tennessee high school held up a sign that referred to the Trail of Tears at a recent football game against a team nicknamed the Indians, officials said. Dyersburg City School District's director of schools, Neel Durbin, said in a statement Friday that it does not condone the sign display at Dyersburg High School's Nov. 15 playoff game against North Side High School, calling it "crass, insensitive and offensive." ...

Navy Yard gunman had access pulled

WASHINGTON (AP) - The company that employed the Washington Navy Yard shooter pulled his access to classified material for two days in August when mental health problems became evident, but restored it quickly and never told Navy officials about the withdrawal, The Associated Press has learned.

Anniversary of JFK death brings sadness, solemnity

DALLAS (AP) - It was the same time, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. It was the same place, downtown Dallas.