Budget cut woes leave military, families uncertain
NORFOLK, Va. -- With family members waving from a pier, sailors aboard a Navy destroyer left for an overseas mission with more uncertainty than ever about their homecoming as potentially massive budget cuts reshape military plans.
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Hoax call but no sign of ex-cop wanted in killings
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- Police spent all night searching the snowy mountains of Southern California but were unable to find the former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spreeábecause he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.
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Lawmaker: NYC subway deaths a 'wake-up call'
NEW YORK -- Alarmed about safety after a spate of recent deaths in the nation's busiest subway system, lawmakers pressed transit officials on Thursday to step up studies of platform barriers, warning systems and other measures that could stop trains from hitting people.
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Sheriff: Wood stove eyed in fire that killed 5
SULPHUR, Ind. -- Shaken and dazed, the large gathering joined hands to brace for the horrific news they had dreaded -- a fire that swept through a relative's mobile home early Thursday had killed two children and three adults in southern Indiana.
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Christie again vetoes NJ's Internet gambling law
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill Thursday that would have made New Jersey the third state to legalize gambling over the Internet, but he said he would sign it if it had a 10-year trial period and a higher tax rate on casinos.
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Police: Denver mom shot 3 kids, killed herself
DENVER -- A mother shot and killed two of her young children and critically wounded another before taking her own life in a Denver home, police said Thursday.
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Nanny arrested after allegedly smacking baby
NEW YORK -- A 52-year-old nanny was arrested after she was allegedly captured on video slapping a 5-month-old baby in the face as her sister looked on in their Staten Island home.
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Calif. seeks to adopt nation's toughest gun laws
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Weeks after New York enacted the nation's toughest gun laws, California lawmakers said Thursday they want their state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, particularly the Connecticut school massacre.
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Mexican teen shot 8 or more times at Ariz. border
PHOENIX -- An autopsy report indicates a teenage Mexican boy who was apparently fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in October was struck by at least eight bullets, all but one hitting him in the back.
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Duke students rally against anti-Asian frat party
DURHAM, N.C. (NBC) -- Students at Duke University in Durham, N.C., gathered Wednesday to protest anti-Asian prejudice after a fraternity hosted a "racist rager" party last week replete with literature that lampooned Asian students.
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Airlines canceling flights in advance of storm
UNDATED -- The big storm heading for the Northeast is already disrupting air travel.
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Experts warn of long recovery for boy in bunker
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The boy who was freed from an underground bunker is acting like a typical 5-year-old by all accounts, playing with toys and running around, but psychology experts and a woman who suffered through a similar ordeal warn there could be long-term emotional scars.
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Christie seeks to address his weight on own terms
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. -- Chris Christie began the workweek doughnut in hand, playfully embracing fat jokes on David Letterman's couch.
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Police do reports in school lots in safety measure
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- Stunned by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut, police and school officials in one Colorado county felt they had to do something to reassure students.
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New York expanding nation's biggest transit hub
NEW YORK -- Sixteen stories below Grand Central Terminal, an army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create a new commuter rail concourse with more floor space than New Orleans' Superdome, just one of three audacious projects going on beneath New York City's streets to expand what's already the nation's biggest mass transit system.
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911 call, document shed light on vet's mindset
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A 911 recording and documents released Tuesday reveal more about the possible state of mind of the Iraq War veteran charged with gunning down a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend at a Texas shooting range.
