Friday, May 31, 2013

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:58 PM PDT

13-year-old wins National Spelling Bee 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:58 PM PDT
Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.Y., is congratulated by his family as confetti falls after he won the National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "knaidel" correctly on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)After years of heartbreakingly close calls, Arvind Mahankali finishes first.
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Tornadoes touch down in Oklahoma, Arkansas 
Friday, May 31, 2013 12:56 AM PDT
A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday, May 30, 2013. At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)At least three tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, including one in Tulsa, and two more hit Arkansas on Thursday.
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11 vanish from Mexico City bar in suspected kidnap 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 08:49 PM PDT
Friends put pictures in the bar entrance of their recently disappeared relatives in Mexico City,Thursday, May 30, 2013. Relatives who joined a march to demand solutions to the thousands of detained and disappeared in Mexico say 11 young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from a Mexico City bar last Sunday a half-block from the city's main boulevard and a few blocks from police headquarters. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar.
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Family: Michigan woman, 33, killed in Syria fight 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 07:54 PM PDT
Forces of Syrian President Bashar al Assad are seen in Arjoun village near Qusair townThe woman's family says the FBI confirmed that she was killed in fighting in Syria.
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Rescued Chinese baby released to family 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:14 PM PDT
In this Tuesday, May 28, 2013 photo, the baby who was rescued after being trapped in a sewage pipe moments after his birth, lies in an incubator at a hospital in Pujiang county in east China's Zhejiang province. The newborn has been released from the hospital into the care of his grandparents. Local officials and media reports said Thursday, May 30, 20123, that authorities have concluded it was an accident, meaning his unwed mother is unlikely to be criminally charged. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTThe newborn's mother is unlikely to face criminal charges.
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Editors say attorney general to change investigations 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:44 PM PDT
Major media outlets boycott Eric Holder's meetingInvestigations that involve reporters will be handled differently, Eric Holder said.
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Small plane hits Wash. home; no serious injuries 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:41 PM PDT
EATONVILLE, Wash. (AP) — An Eatonville, Wash., fire official says a small plane flying from Oregon to Seattle crashed into a home Thursday evening but the pilot and passenger escaped with only minor injuries and no one was hurt on the ground.
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Evacuations called off as fire north of LA calms 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:31 PM PDT
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that broke out near a power station and utility lines north of Los Angeles burned out of control Thursday, but improved firefighting conditions after nightfall slowed its growth and residents were allowed to return to homes they had evacuated, officials said.
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'Kai the Hitchhiker' to face murder charge 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 05:27 PM PDT
Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, 24, center, is taken by Union County sheriff's officers to jail in Elizabeth, N.J., Thursday, May 30, 2013. McGillvary is charged with beating 73-year-old lawyer Joseph Galfy to death after they met in New York City. Galfy's body was found in his Clark, N.J., home. McGillvary, who gained Internet fame as "Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker," says he's not guilty of the murder charge. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)The man who gained Internet fame insisted he was not guilty.
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Would-be Chicago backpack bomber gets 23 years 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:33 PM PDT
This image made from surveillance video provided by the FBI shows a man identified by the FBI as Sami Samir Hassoun placing an item into a trash receptacle. A federal judge raised the specter of the Boston Marathon Thursday as he sentenced a young Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling city street near the Chicago Cubs' baseball stadium. (AP Photo/FBI)A judge raised the specter of the Boston Marathon on Thursday as he sentenced a young Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling city street near the Chicago Cubs' baseball stadium.
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Mariah Carey leaving 'Idol' 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:10 PM PDT
FILE - This May 16, 2013 file photo shows Mariah Carey at the "American Idol" finale at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. Carey says she isn't retuning to The pop star's PR firm tweeted she's also planning a tour.
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Mother: Bombing suspect is walking, proclaiming innocence 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 02:02 PM PDT
Report: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Confessed to the Boston Bombings in a NoteThe remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Lawsuit cites 'barbaric' conditions at Miss. prison 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:38 PM PDT
A Mississippi prison for severely mentally ill inmates is infested with rats that prisoners sell to one another as pets, two civil liberties groups claimed in a federal lawsuit.
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U.S. households still feel the recession 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The average U.S. household has a long way to go to recover the wealth it lost to the Great Recession, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis concluded Thursday.
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Man charged with murder after dog mauls jogger 
Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:06 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of four pit bulls that killed a woman jogger in a gruesome mauling was charged with murder Thursday in a highly unusual case that strained the memories of law enforcement officials to find comparable uses of the felony murder law.
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