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Details: Written by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar the Associated Press; Published: 20 September 2011

Retirees on hook for greater share of costs, but advocates say proposal is better than GOP ideas

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to health care savings, President Barack Obama's deficit plan borrows a familiar strategy from corporate America's playbook: cut costs or shift them to others.

Details: Written by Julie Pace of the Associated Press; Published: 19 September 2011

He defied orders charging through insurgent gunfire to save 36 lives

President Barack Obama on Thursday bestowed the highest U.S. military honor on Dakota Meyer, a young and humble Marine who defied orders and barreled straight into a ferocious "killing zone" in Afghanistan to save 36 lives at extraordinary risk to himself.

Details: Written by Greg Bluestein the Associated Press; Published: 19 September 2011

Pardons and Paroles officials can change death sentences but such action is rare

ATLANTA (AP) -- His legal appeals exhausted, supporters of Troy Davis were making a last-ditch effort Monday to stop his execution for the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, asking the Georgia pardons board to grant clemency the 42-year-old who insists that he is innocent.

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Details: Written by Mitch Stacy the Associated Press; Published: 19 September 2011

Jeremiah Fogle was sentenced to probation in 1987 after manslaughter case

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- The man accused of killing his wife and then shooting two church pastors had been sentenced to probation for killing a previous wife years earlier, according to court records.

Details: Written by Barbara Ortutay AP Technology Writer; Published: 19 September 2011

Mail order plan to be renamed Qwikster, will use separate website

NEW YORK (AP) -- Netflix Inc. is moving to formally separate the DVD-by-mail plan it built its business on from the online streaming service it's betting will be future of entertainment consumption.

Details: Written by Steven K. Paulson the Associated Press; Published: 17 September 2011

Outbreak from bacteria has killed at least two and sickened more than 20 in seven states

DENVER (AP) -- A melon farm in Colorado has issued a recall of cantaloupe following a Listeria outbreak that has killed at least two people, sickened 22 and spread to several states.

Details: Written by Nigel Duara the Associated Press; Published: 17 September 2011

McMinnville, Ore., retirees unknowingly make three-minute video that's garnered millions of hits

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) -- It slowly began to dawn on Esther and Bruce Huffman that perhaps they were being filmed.

Details: Written by Pete Yost the Associated Press; Published: 17 September 2011

12 percent drop driven by reduction in number of simple assaults

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department says the number of violent crimes fell by 12 percent last year, several times larger than the average annual decrease from 2001 through 2009.

Details: Written by Tony Best, Los Angeles Sentinel; Published: 17 September 2011

Legal experts and others who have studied the Garvey case have long concluded that he was framed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wrongfully convicted

A bid to secure a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, has been rejected out of hand by the Barack Obama White House in Washington.

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Details: Written by Matthew Daly and Jack Gillum the Associated Press; Published: 16 September 2011

Released emails show Obama staff had worries about solar panel company while praising it publicly

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration was worried about the financial health of a troubled solar energy company - and the political fallout it could bring - even as officials publicly declared the company in good shape, newly released emails show.

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