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AP source: US delays missile test as tensions rise

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid mounting tensions with North Korea, the Pentagon has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test that had been planned for next week at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a senior defense official told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Last Updated on Sunday, 07 April 2013

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Church: Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — The 27-year-old son of popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide at his Southern California home, Warren's church and authorities said on Saturday.

Last Updated on Sunday, 07 April 2013

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Gang member arrested in corrections killing probe

DENVER (AP) — A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing.

Last Updated on Saturday, 06 April 2013

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2 children died instantly in I-76 crash

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The coroner's office says two children died instantly from "devastating" injuries in a crash on Interstate 76 near Youngstown.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013

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Kasich to meet with murder victim's family

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio's governor has agreed to a rare meeting with the family of a murder victim whose condemned killer the governor spared from execution.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013

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Holmes psychiatrist warned of threat before attack

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A psychiatrist who treated James Holmes told campus police a month before the Colorado theater attack that Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a danger to the public, according to documents released Thursday.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013

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Laws, rumors have ammo flying off store shelves

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making it hard for stores nationwide to keep shelves stocked and even putting a pinch on some local law enforcement departments.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013

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NY judge makes morning-after pill available to all

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" and must end within 30 days.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 April 2013

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