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HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls
ATLANTA (AP) — Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the mar...
Jun 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Members of the FBI evidence response team look over an area being cleared in Oakland Township, Mich., Tuesday, June 18, 2013 where officials continue the search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A search of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, an FBI agent announced Wednesday as auth...
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Suicide bombers target Baghdad mosque, killing 26
BAGHDAD (AP) — Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 26 ...
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2010, file photo Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, then-commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, center right, arrives at a Capitol Hill committee hearing in Washington to testify about cyberspace operations. Alexander now directs the National Security Agency, whose job it is to use the world’s most cutting edge supercomputers and arguably the largest database storage sites to crunch and sift through terabytes of data, whether it was stolen from a foreign official’s laptop by a CIA officer overseas, or intercepted by a Navy spy plane flying off the Chinese coast, or, as Americans found out this week, secreted from your personal phone records. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Intel chief: Lawmakers demanding more info on NSA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday lawmakers are worried about the possibility of further disclosures about the government's sweeping electronic surveil...
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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky., in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015, and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country’s elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Military plans would put women in most combat jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines. ...
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Ga. man sentenced on sex trafficking charges
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Attorney's officials say a metro Atlanta man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on sex trafficking charges. Officials said Monday that 30-year-old Demario Hillmon, of Dou...
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Clayton Co. boy, 9, hurt trying to save sister in carjacking
CONLEY (AP) — Police were searching for a suspect after a boy was hurt while trying to save his sister in a carjacking. Clayton County police say the crime happened Monday on Willow Way in the cou...
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Investigators look over the scene in Oakland Township, Mich., Monday, June 17, 2013, where officials search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Federal agents search land linked to Hoffa case
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Monday as they searched a field in suburban Detroit. Robert Foley, special agent i...
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Small child hit by car, suffers minor injuries
by Erik Green, Staff Writer
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A 3-year-old child escaped with minor injuries after being hit by a car in a Calhoun parking lot on Monday. Lt. Tony Pyle of the Calhoun Police Department said the male child was playing in a mud p...
Spectator shot to death at soccer game
by Associated Press
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GAINESVILLE (AP) — Authorities say a spectator at a recreational soccer game was shot to death in a Hall County park, and a suspect was being questioned in the death. The 46-year-old was shot repe...
Ind. woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed
by CHARLES WILSON,Associated Press
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 after she confessed to her part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher has been released from an Indiana p...
Ga. man drowns in northeast Ala
by Associated Press
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FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) — A Georgia man is dead following a weekend drowning in northeast Alabama. Officials say 19-year-old Ricardo Perez of Rome was found in 9 feet of water in Little River Canyon...
Storms leave scattered power outages in Georgia
by Associated Press
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ATLANTA (AP) — A line of strong thunderstorms moving through a large part of north Georgia left scattered power outages early Monday morning. Georgia Power reported before dawn Monday that fewer t...
Ga. panel will consider suspension of lawmaker
by Associated Press
Jun 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
ATLANTA (AP) — Two Democratic lawmakers and the state's top attorney will decide whether to suspend state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, who is accused of misappropriating charitable donations. Republican Go...
Man who faked his death pleads to sex charge
by Associated Press
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Georgia man who officials say faked his own death to avoid prosecution on sex charges in Florida, has pleaded no contest in the Florida case. The News Herald of Panama C...
Obama steps up military aid to Syrian rebels
by JULIE PACE, LOLITA C. BALDOR,Associated Press
Jun 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's decision to authorize lethal aid to Syrian rebels marks a deepening of U.S. involvement in the two-year civil war. But U.S. officials are still grappling ...