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  • NORAD intercepts 2 aircraft near Camp David

    CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Military aircraft have intercepted two small planes in restricted airspace around Camp David, where world leaders are gathering for an economic summit....

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  • 4 missing, 8 hurt in boat crash on river in Iowa

    BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- Officials in Iowa say four people are missing and eight others hurt after a boat collision on the Mississippi River....

  • Convicted ex-Mass. speaker diagnosed with cancer

    BOSTON (AP) -- A former Massachusetts House speaker who's in federal prison on a corruption conviction has been diagnosed with cancer....

  • Wash. man accused of killing classmate on trial

    WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) -- A trial opens Tuesday for a Washington state man accused of killing a beauty school classmate, in a case that shook a farm city that bills itself as the "Apple Capital of the World."...

  • Jurors in Edwards trial will resume talks Monday

    GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend before taking up the case again on Monday....

  • 3 NATO protesters face terror conspiracy charges

    CHICAGO (AP) -- Police say three protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago have been charged with terrorism conspiracy stemming from allegations that they planned to make Molotov cocktails....

  • Chemical sends 5 from Fla airport to hospital

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was closed for a time after an unknown chemical sent five people to the hospital with respiratory complaints....

  • Jokes and sympathy _ Obama greets his G-8 guests

    CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- For a welcome, President Barack Obama acknowledged his Group of 8 guests with a joke, a pleasantry or sympathy for the weight of the world....

  • Diplomats: UN experts say NKorea violates sanction

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Security Council diplomats say an expert panel has reported that North Korea continues to violate U.N. sanctions, citing possible attempts to ship arms to Syria and Myanmar and illegally import luxury goods....

  • Cuban president's daughter to meet with gay groups

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro is planning to meet with San Francisco's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community during a U.S. visit next week that is being opposed by some Cuban-American politicians....

  • Highlights from Facebook's debut

    Facebook's debut on the stock market was preceded by epic hype, delayed by a technical glitch and tracked minute-by-minute by investors around the world. In the end, the fuss was over a gain of 23 cents....

  • Minn. judges block rapist's bid for more freedom

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A convicted rapist on Friday lost his bid to gain more freedom from a Minnesota program that confines more than 600 of the state's most dangerous sex offenders after they leave prison....

  • Man's defibrillator stops knife during attack

    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man's implanted heart defibrillator may have saved his life in an unexpected way - by stopping a knife....

  • Alaska restaurant battles Seattle for first fish

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An Anchorage seafood restaurant heralded its grand opening Friday by mimicking Alaska Airlines' splashy salmon show in Seattle....

  • Facebook Falls Flat In Public Debut

    After all the hype, Facebook's first day as a public company ended where it began.

  • Fla. man pleads guilty to online Ponzi scheme

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Florida man faces more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to running an Internet-based Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say ripped off thousands of investors....

  • Feds say pilot tried to bring gun on plane in NY

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight at Buffalo for New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and authorities believe he'd been flying with it for two days....

  • Iran, Syria among topics for G-8 and NATO

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is using weekend gatherings of world leaders - dominated by discussion of European economic woes and Afghanistan - to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and to encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in...

  • AP PHOTOS: Hero driver in Calif bus kidnap dies

    In 1976, three kidnappers hijacked a school bus full of children in the farm town of Chowchilla, Calif. The kidnappers forced the 26 students and the bus driver, Frank Edward "Ed" Ray, into a truck that was buried underground and demanded a $5 million ransom. As the kidnappers slept, Ray and two old...

  • Cache of evidence in shooting, still huge gaps

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case dumped a mountain of evidence on the public this week. In many criminal cases, that would bring clarity, start answering the basic questions....

  • NJ town's monument upsetting Japanese officials

    PALISADES PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Japanese officials are asking a small northern New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II....

  • Military trainer jet crashes in Calif., 1 dead

    CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) -- A civilian training jet on contract to the military crashed in Southern California on Friday, killing the pilot, authorities said....

  • Texas airline exec describes enemies at porn trial

    BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- The founder of a South Texas cargo airline testified in his own defense on Friday, the fifth day of his federal trial on child pornography charges, and described several people motivated to set him up....

  • Mary Kennedy services planned amid apparent rift

    BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- The two branches of Mary Richardson Kennedy's family were planning separate memorial services for the 52-year-old, who committed suicide Wednesday amid a contested divorce with husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

  • Fla. mom who killed self, 4 kids endured violence

    MIAMI (AP) -- A child welfare investigator who spoke with Tonya Thomas in the weeks before she fatally shot herself and her four children said there were no signs that the children were in distress or felt unsafe. But hundreds of documents released by state officials Friday detail a family torme...

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Greenville County Council Disbands Disabilities And Special Needs Board

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