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- Pa. town ponders councilman's arrest in old murder BRIDGEWATER, Pa. (AP) -- As a small town comes to grips with a 32-year-old murder, the talk isn't just about a borough councilman being held without bond in a local jail....
- Marine's wife killed in Calif. propane explosion COLEVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Military officials say the wife of a U.S. Marine died and a Navy corpsman and his wife were injured in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base....
- LA school reeling from arrest of 2nd teacher LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A bizarre case at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling two girls in his classroom....
- Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China vetoed a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down....
- Man gets DUI between applying for, getting pardon BRANDON, Miss. (AP) -- Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn't know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he applied for a pardon and the time Barbour granted it....
- US Army: Brigadier general has died in Afghanistan FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A 49-year-old brigadier general who died Friday in Afghanistan of apparent natural causes is likely the highest-ranking military officer to die there, according to military records....
- Dems want their candidate as Ind. elections chief INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana Democrats say they will try next week to have their losing candidate installed as the state's elections chief after a jury found Secretary of State Charlie White guilty of six felony voter fraud-related charges, disqualifying him from office....
- Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket....
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- Heavy snow traps many people in Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow, and hundreds of people remained trapped in their homes and vehicles throughout the country....
- Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China vetoed a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down....
- Mexican aid lags for starving Tarahumara Indians GUACHOCHI, Mexico (AP) -- It's been months since Maria Luisa Gonzalez and her husband have been able to harvest anything from their drought-parched land or catch fish in a lake that's become little more than a muddy puddle....
- Iran launches new military exercises TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran began ground military exercises Saturday and defiantly warned that it could cut off oil exports to "hostile" European nations as tensions rise over suggestions that military strikes are an increasing possibility if sanctions fail to rein in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program....
- Chavez celebrates 20th anniversary of coup attempt CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched his political career....
- Rome struggles with more snow ROME (AP) -- Romans bewildered by their city's first big snowfall in 26 years used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks and piazzas, and kitchen utensils to clear windshields Saturday....
- Argentines seek peaceful resolution in Falklands BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and acknowledge that the islands and seas around them rightfully belong to Argentina....
- US renews warning to Egypt over aid MUNICH (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday issued a new warning to Egypt that the failure to resolve a bitter dispute over the status of non-governmental pro-democracy groups may lead to the loss of American aid to the country....
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