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The Dow Jones industrial average made up only a small fraction of the losses from Thursday, when the Dow dropped 512, its worst since the financial crisis of 2008

The jobs number beat the forecast of economists, who were expecting no more than 90,000. And it was an overwhelming relief for investors, who just lived through two of the most brutal weeks in Wall Street history.


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Former California governor is making public appearances, has starring film role on the way

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a comeback.


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Currently poses no hazard to residents

HONOLULU (AP) -- Scientists say a new lava flow has broken out at Kilauea, a volcano that has been continuously erupting for nearly three decades. The lava flow is entirely within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and currently poses no hazard to residents.

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Operations in Woodland and Ridgefield must pay total of $73,000

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. Labor Department has fined three Washington state strawberry farms a total of $73,000 for employing children as young as 6 years old as pickers.


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New law requires all online contact with students to be done in public, not via private messages

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- As they prepare lesson plans for fall, teachers across Missouri have an extra chore before the new school year begins: purging their Facebook friend lists to comply with a new state law that limits their contact with students on social networks.


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Initiative aims for job placement, fatherhood classes and training for probation officers

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men.


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Growing outrage in California town after 37-year-old schizophrenic man dies in police confrontation

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) -- In the nearly two decades since his son descended into madness, Ron Thomas has worried every day that the schizophrenic 37-year-old would die of exposure or illness on the streets. He never imagined the end would come in a violent confrontation with police.


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Investigation centered on Dreamboard, an online forum promoting pedophilia

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal law enforcement officials say 72 people have been charged with participating in an online international network engaged in sexual abuse of children.

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Stan Strickland had been criticized by defense lawyers for giving interviews

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A judge who ordered Casey Anthony back to Florida to serve probation for check fraud stepped down from that case Wednesday and Anthony's lawyer warned she would be in danger if she has to return from an undisclosed location.


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Suquamish Tribal Council only the second Native American government to take the step

SEATTLE (AP) -- Standing up before dozens of Suquamish Tribal members at a general council meeting in March, Heather Purser told them she was a lesbian, and asked her people to recognize same-sex marriages at the tribe's Washington state reservation.


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