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WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security recipients won't be getting big benefit increases next year, but the small raises they will receive are playing an important role in helping seniors grow their incomes even as younger workers lose ground. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 and 2 percent, which would be […]
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open doorway of a capsule suspended above Earth and wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, millions of people were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at the wonder […]
FAIRMOUNT (AP) — A Fairmount high school student shot himself in front of his classmates in an apparent suicide attempt Thursday morning, school officials said. The student, whose name, age and condition were not immediately released, shot himself at around 8:30 a.m. and didn’t threaten anyone else at the school, Principal Jay Townsend said. The […]
MIAMI (AP) — In the latest embarrassing spectacle for the Secret Service, one of its officers was found passed out and apparently drunk on a Miami street corner less than 12 hours after President Barack Obama left the city. Aaron Francis Engler, an officer with the storied agency's uniformed division, was not on duty when […]
Boxing legend Evander Holyfield said he will never enter the boxing ring again. Holyfield is shutting down rumors that he was preparing for a boxing comeback. After his last fight in 2011, Holyfield suggested that he would return to the boxing ring one last time before hanging up his gloves. But now, he said he […]
New research suggests that men may have difficulty taking a contraceptive pill regularly. Researchers at Monash University have developed a male contraceptive pill. Scientists mutated a gene that is described as fuel delivered to the engine room of a sperm’s tail. “It’s one extra piece of the puzzle to finding out how sperm are made […]
DENVER (AP) — Denver police are reviewing video footage from city surveillance cameras after a shot was fired through the window of President Barack Obama's campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says cameras are in the area of the campaign office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street near Denver's downtown, and investigators are poring […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82. Specter, who announced in late August that he was battling cancer, died at his home […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated steroid shots in the nation's growing meningitis outbreak, warning Thursday that patients will need to keep watch for symptoms of the deadly infection for months. "We know that we are not out of the woods […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At its prime, the space shuttle Endeavour cruised around the Earth at 17,500 mph, faster than a speeding bullet. In retirement, it's crawling along at a sluggish 2 mph, a pace that rush-hour commuters can sympathize with. Endeavour's 12-mile road trip kicked off shortly before midnight Thursday as it moved from […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Schools shut their doors in protest and Pakistanis across the country held vigils Wednesday to pray for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group. The shooting of Malala Yousufzai on Tuesday in the town of Mingora in […]
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison by a judge who described his decision as a necessary punishment for a brutal, shocking attack. Elizabeth Escalona did not immediately react as State District Judge Larry Mitchell […]
