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Firefighter Scott Abraham, of the San Bernardino County Fire Department, sprays water as his crew tries to keep the fire from crossing a San Diego County road Friday, May 25, 2012, near Julian, Calif. The blaze broke out Thursday afternoon east of Julian near Banner Grade. About 100 homes were temporarily evacuated in the Shelter Valley area along Highway 78 during the early stages of the fire but that order was lifted late Thursday.
New Mexico wildfire spreads smoke across state
Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico that has destroyed a dozen cabins and spread smoke across the state, prompting holiday weekend air-quality warnings.
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Quotations of the day
May 26, 2:06 AM"Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail." - NASA astronaut Donald Pettit after he used the International Space Station's 58-foot robot arm Friday to snare SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station.
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Barbara Graves, wife of prominent publisher, dies
May 25, 10:42 PM
Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday.
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Tropical storm warnings for Southeast coast
May 26, 1:21 AM
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength early Saturday and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend.
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Correction: California Church Abuse story
May 25, 9:06 PMIn a story May 22 about internal files of nine Franciscan priests that were released as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit settlement in California, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the name of the attorney for the Roman Catholic order. His name is Brian Brosnahan.
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Report: LAPD seeks Manson family member recordings
May 25, 7:21 PMPolice want to review audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney as detectives search for information about unsolved killings.
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Farm traced to listeria outbreak files bankruptcy
May 25, 7:21 PMA Colorado farm that was traced to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Wis. officials unknowingly break law with Facebook
May 25, 11:45 PMHigh-ranking members of both political parties were unaware that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal in Wisconsin, and they promised to quickly take down the posts Friday after election officials reminded voters of the law.
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Quebec students challenge anti-protest law
May 25, 6:31 PMStudent groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over proposed tuition hikes.
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AP Photos: 'Star Wars' celebrates 35th anniversary
May 25, 6:41 PM
It was 35 years ago Friday that moviegoers were first transported to a galaxy far, far away.
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Bus driver taking kids to Disneyland arrested
May 25, 10:42 PM
An alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said Friday.
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Miss district agrees to stop handcuffing students
May 25, 6:06 PMJackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.
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Judge won't preside in trial in Ark. lotto dispute
May 25, 5:22 PMAn Arkansas judge who ordered a new trial in a lawsuit over a $1 million lottery ticket that a woman says she mistakenly discarded announced Friday that he won't preside over the case.
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Campaign styles clash in Wis. recall race
May 25, 5:06 PMWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his opponent, Democrat Tom Barrett, are locked together in a fiercely fought recall campaign, but that's where the similarity ends. They don't campaign the same way.
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Judge to Edwards jurors: Don't discuss the case
May 26, 2:41 AM
Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case - but not talk about it - as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations.
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UN chief cites unacceptable violence in Syria
May 25, 6:01 PMSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon blamed the Syrian government Friday for much of the "unacceptable levels of violence and abuses" occurring every day in violation of a U.N.-backed peace plan.
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Kan. gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law
May 25, 5:11 PMKansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely.
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Judge: Anti-gay marriage law is unconstitutional
May 25, 3:46 PMA judge in California has ruled that the federal law that prohibits recognition of same-sex unions is unconstitutional because it denies long-term health insurance benefits to legal spouses of state employees and retirees.
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Ex-Mexican officer pleads guilty in cartel case
May 25, 4:47 PMA Mexican police officer pleaded guilty Friday in a drug smuggling case and admitted he hired a fellow officer to run a hit squad on behalf of a Tijuana-based drug cartel, prosecutors said.
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Seattle man shot by stray bullet worked for Zillow
May 25, 3:26 PMSeattle-based Zillow says the man fatally shot by a stray bullet while he and his family drove down a Seattle street was an employee of the high-tech real estate company.
