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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police arrested a suspect in the stabbings of three Los Angeles-area homeless people in recent weeks, a man they say goes by a name signed on "death warrants" found with the wounded victims. Courtney Anthony Robinson, 38, called 911 Friday and said it was his face being distributed on flyers around […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of […]

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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Details emerging on the Colorado massacre suspect show a budding scientist, brimming with potential, who pursued a graduate program even as he assembled weaponry he would allegedly use in the deadly midnight rampage inside an Aurora movie theater. James Holmes planned the attack with "calculation and deliberation," police said Saturday, receiving […]

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University will remove the famed statue of Joe Paterno outside its football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. The university said Sunday that it will take down the larger-than-life monument […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — The stepson of the Grammy award-winning pop star Usher has died, two weeks after the child was critically injured in a boating accident. Willie A. Watkins funeral home in Atlanta confirmed Saturday it was handling funeral arrangements for 11-year-old Kile Glover. Glover was a son of Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster. The Atlanta […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katherine Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson and the guardian of his three minor children, has been reported missing, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says she is with family members. Paris Jackson, the 14-year-old daughter of the late legend, tweeted early Sunday morning that her grandmother was missing: "I […]

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A new cell phone app can help you control your home air conditioner at your fingertips. New York electric company Con Edison and ThinkEco are helping New York citizens control their home cooling systems by using their smartphones and the Internet. The project known as CoolNYC is selling and giving away 10,000 “smart plugs.” Many […]

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New research suggests that more Americans are choosing not to affiliate with any religious group. In a tracking poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 19 percent of Americans did not classify themselves as a part of a religious sect. Previously, Barry Kosmin found that 6 percent of poll respondents identified themselves as religiously unaffiliated […]

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Chef Gordon Ramsay has been named the U.S’s highest earning chef by grossing an estimated $38 million this year. Ramsay, who owns 24 restaurants worldwide, has several cookbooks and received 11 Michelin medals for his work. He is also known as the tongue-lashing expert featured on cooking shows like Master Chef and Hell’s Kitchen. "They […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Dark Knight Rises" was on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2-D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film. Citing box office insiders, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other media outlets reported […]