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Winds in NM fire force evacuation near ghost town
Residents near a privately owned New Mexico ghost town have been ordered to evacuate as a blaze in the Gila National Forest continued to burn erratically.
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NATION/WORLD
Rainy Memorial Day forecast for southeast coast
A cluster of thunderstorms that is expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl could make for a sloppy Memorial Day in the southeast.
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NATION/WORLD
Coroner: Gunman in Indiana standoff from Texas
A coroner says the gunman killed in a northwestern Indiana police standoff was a Texas man.
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NATION
Crew of Va. ship in piracy drama sues for $50M
More than half the crew members of a container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are suing for nearly $50 million, contending their captain ignored warnings to sail clear of pirate-infested waters off Africa.
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NATION
Mich. wildfire in UP grows to more than 21K acres
Officials say a wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has grown to slightly more than 21,000 acres.
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NATION
Charity: 9/11 widow died of natural causes
The 52-year-old widow of the man who captained a United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on 9/11 has died of what her charity says was natural causes.
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NATION
Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces
Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up two homeless people and a motel owner.
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NATION
Letters to judge about NJ webcam spying case
Following are excerpts from some of the letters Judge Glenn Berman received as he considered the sentence for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted in March of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and other charges for using his webcam to see roommate Tyler Clementi kissing another man. Clementi committed...
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NATIONAL POLITICS
Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility
Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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NATION
A year after rare twister, Mass. residents rebound
Pia Rogers still goes home every day, even though all that remains of her two-story farmhouse are two granite front steps.








