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2nd Oklahoma town to have young student-mayor

Published April 13, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) âÄî A second Oklahoma college student will have to split his time running to classes and running a town. Oklahoma State University junior Nathan Bates was sworn in Monday as...

Stocks end mostly higher ahead of earnings reports

Published April 13, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) âÄî Stocks ended mostly higher Monday ahead of a flurry of earnings reports that could determine whether the economy is really getting better, as investors have been hoping over the...

Boston hospital performs face transplant

Published April 10, 2009
A Boston hospital has performed the nation's second partial face transplant on a man who suffered traumatic facial injuries from a freak accident.

No salmonella found in New York pistachio plant

Published April 10, 2009
New York officials said Friday they found no trace of salmonella in a Long Island nut processing plant whose sister company sparked a vast nationwide recall of pistachios last week.

Man gets death for California yacht murders

Published April 10, 2009
A man convicted of murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California was sentenced to death Friday.

Facing hard times, Shriners may close 6 hospitals

Published April 9, 2009
Shriners hospitals, which have provided free care since before the Great Depression, are considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations stagnate, costs increase and the charity's endowment shrivels.

Teens arrested in shooting plot at Colorado school

Published April 9, 2009
Two teens arrested in New Mexico on suspicion of burglary and theft had planned a shooting spree at a rural southwestern Colorado high school as early as this week, according to a sheriff who said he was among the targets.

Lawsuit: Firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq

Published April 9, 2009
The complaint filed Tuesday in Baltimore by five Iraqi expatriates and the Nashville, Tenn.-based Kurdish National Congress seeks class certification for an estimated 100,000 Kurds. The Republic of Iraq is also named as a defendant.

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