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Motorcycle injuries worsen with weaker helmet law

Posted: 7:07 AM The average medical claim from a motorcycle crash rose by more than one-fifth last year in Michigan after the state stopped requiring all riders to wear helmets, according to an insurance industry study.

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AP Exclusive: Soldier to admit Afghan massacre

Posted: 6:43 AM Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby.

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Cops: Letters to NYC mayor test positive for ricin

Posted: 6:36 AM Two threatening letters containing traces of the deadly poison ricin were sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York and his gun-control group in Washington, police said.

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Sentencing for would-be Chicago backpack bomber

Posted: 6:35 AM The defense depicts Sami Samir Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth sucked into a terrorist plot during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.

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Recall bid against Ariz. sheriff faces deadline

Posted: 6:33 AM A group trying to oust the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix faces a Thursday deadline for handing in voter signatures in an uphill battle to force a recall election against the lawman.

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Officials: Fire contained in Maryland derailed train

Updated: 6:28 AM Capt. Bruce Schultz of the Baltimore County Office of the Fire Marshal's investigative services announced early Wednesday that the blaze in Rosedale, Md. was called under control late Tuesday just before midnight.

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US gun debate overlooks daily violence

Updated: 6:04 AM The vast majority died in the type of daily gun violence that does not grab national headlines in the same way as the December massacre of 20 young children and six teachers

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Mothers now top earners in 4 in 10 US households

Updated: 6:04 AM America's working mothers are now the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of households with children — a milestone in the changing face of modern families, up from just 11 percent in 1960.

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Ex-Grand Valley St. QB who went missing found dead

Updated: 6:04 AM A three-day search for one of the winningest college quarterbacks ever ended in a remote wooded area in Michigan, where authorities found his body and were left with a mystery of how he died.

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Officials: Gunman in Texas rampage was Marine

Posted: 6:33 AM A man suspected in a West Texas shooting rampage that left one woman dead and five others wounded was a Marine who was wanted for questioning in a slaying in North Carolina, officials said Monday.

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Passengers returning to US after cruise ship fire

Updated: 1:43 PM This time, aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas and the ship's 2,200 passengers were expected back in Baltimore on Tuesday after being flown on charter flights from the Bahamas.

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US intelligence embraces debate in security issues

Posted: 11:38 AM These three cases provide a rare look inside the secretive 16 intelligence agencies as they try to piece together security threats from bits of vague information from around the world.

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Sales of camp sites throw Girl Scouts into turmoil

Updated: 8:49 AM When it came time to draw up a budget, one of Iowa's regional Girl Scout councils reviewed its programs and made a proposal that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: selling its last four summer camps.

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'Crack baby' scare overblown, teen research says

Posted: 7:13 AM Research in teens adds fresh evidence that the 1980s "crack baby" scare was overblown, finding little proof of any major long-term ill effects in children whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy.

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Obama: Gov't with Oklahoma 'every step' of the way

Updated: 6:31 AM President Barack Obama visited tornado-devastated Moore, Okla., Sunday, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and property and promising that the government will be behind them "every step of the way."

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Americans gather to honor fallen service members

Updated: 11:28 AM President Barack Obama was expected to lay a wreath Monday at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington.

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Native American vets push for recognition

Updated: 6:08 AM Before World War II and in the decades since, tens of thousands of American Indians have enlisted in the Armed Forces to serve their country at a rate much greater than any other ethnicity.

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