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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people....

No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care....

Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov't
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide....

Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here."...

Trucker bumps I-5 bridge, sees tragedy behind him
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him. Two vehicles fell into the icy Skagit River....

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81....

Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday....

Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth."...

Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed....

Arias foreman: Sentencing decision unfair to jury
PHOENIX (AP) -- The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' trial says the panel just couldn't decide whether the killing of her boyfriend was enough to merit a death a sentence....

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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

Principal recounts tornado hitting Oklahoma school

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Trucker bumps I-5 bridge, sees tragedy behind him

Students safe after armed man reported at school

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