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Police were recently at apartment of mother of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Police said Monday they will release new information in the case of a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing without a trace for more than a month.


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Officials say feds concluded Jose Pimentel was incapable of pulling off plot

NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal authorities declined to pursue a case against an "al-Qaida sympathizer" accused of wanting to bomb police stations and post offices in New York City because they believed he was mentally unstable and incapable of pulling off the alleged plot, two law enforcement officials said Monday.


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UC Davis incident elicits response from president of University of California system

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The president of the University of California system said he was "appalled" at images of protesters being doused with pepper spray and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses, as the police chief and two officers were placed on administrative leave.


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His presidential campaign imploded earlier this year but polls show him having risen just weeks before Iowa's presidential caucuses kick off the GOP nominating contests

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newt Gingrich calls it giving advice. Most people would call it cashing in on his prominent name.


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The panel faces a deadline of next Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and lawmakers on both sides stressed they were ready to meet through the weekend in a last-ditch search for compromise

Deadline nearing, the deficit-reduction talks in Congress sank toward gridlock Friday after supercommittee Democrats rejected a late Republican offer that included next-to-nothing in new tax revenue. Each side maneuvered to blame the other for a looming stalemate.


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U.S. arms deals are likely to increase with Gulf countries concerned about Iranian intentions and how the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq will affect the stability of the region

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. government audit on Friday found inadequate monitoring of American weapons sales to Persian Gulf countries with questionable human rights records or recent clashes with protesters.

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Heidi Kaeslin, a special education teacher and former girls soccer coach, has been with the district since 2002

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- A high school teacher is under investigation after school officials said she was maintaining a pornographic website from her school-issued laptop computer.


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Police say the pedestrian had been hit and killed a short time earlier; no charges filed

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Secretary of State Dianna Duran's car was one of several that struck a man's body on a highway near Santa Fe after the pedestrian had been hit and killed a short time earlier by another vehicle, police said Friday.


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Report predicts global warming will cause "unprecedented" events such as heat waves, floods

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming.


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Authorities say 16-year-old helped in effort to lure pair of men to remote location

CALDWELL, Ohio (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy was charged Friday with attempted murder and complicity to attempted murder by authorities investigating the killing of one man and the wounding of another who had responded to a phony job ad on Craigslist.


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