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Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget
Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to an Associated Press review of public tax filings by 93 such activist groups. A few groups built ...
Correction: Jordan-Wedding story
In initial versions of an April 28 story about the marriage of NBA owner Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto, The Associated Press failed to attribute descriptions of the bride's gown, the wedding cake and other details of the event at a private club in Jupiter, Fla. The story should have ...
OJ back in court; Day 4 of bid for new Vegas trial
The lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest because he could have been a witness in the case, a lawyer who worked on Simpson's unsuccessful appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court testified Thursday. Witness Malcolm LaVergne said that defense attorney Yale Galanter's conflict ...
Obama honors police officers killed in action
President Barack Obama is honoring police officers killed in the line of duty, saying members of law enforcement never let down their guard and that the public they serve should "never let slide our gratitude." Obama was speaking Wednesday at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony to ...
Fla. boy, 11, dies after being shot by 4-year-old
Authorities say an 11-year-old boy has died after a 4-year-old accidentally shot him in a Lake City apartment. The child who was shot on Sunday died Tuesday at Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Lake City police were called to the Cedar Park Apartments on Sunday, where they ...
OJ Simpson heads to court to fight for freedom
Like a recurring nightmare, the return of O.J. Simpson to a Las Vegas courtroom come Monday will remind Americans of a tragedy that became a national obsession and in the process changed the country's attitude toward the justice system, the media and celebrity. His 1995 trial is the stuff of ...
Fla. bus driver accused of staging student fight
A bus driver in central Florida skipped all the stops on her route and took the children to her house, where she staged a fight between two teenage girls, authorities said Friday. Patrice Sanders, 29, picked up the children at three schools in Bartow, about 40 miles east of Tampa, ...
Ohio man's ex-kin say he beat them, kept mannequin
Years before when authorities say Ariel Castro kidnapped two teenage girls and a young woman and held them captive in his basement, he terrorized the mother of his children, viciously beating her and locking her inside the house, her relatives said Thursday. In interviews with The Associated Press, relatives of ...
Astronomer studies moonlight night Stonewall shot
Friendly fire felled Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson under a full moon in the thick of the northern Virginia wilderness during the Civil War. Ever since, debate has waxed and waned much like the moon over whether his fighters carelessly shot the legendary Confederate under a bright night sky — or ...
Disabled cruise ship leaves Ala port
The Carnival Triumph is headed back to sea three months after limping into port following a fire at sea. The almost 900-foot-long cruise ship left the Alabama Cruise Terminal in Mobile under its own power Wednesday after extensive work to repair damage from an engine room fire. The Miami-based Carnival ...
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