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GOP insiders rise up to cut Gingrich down to size
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall....
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Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday....
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Security chief during Mexico's 'dirty war' dies
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Miguel Nazar Haro, who led Mexico's domestic spy agency and was accused of being behind the disappearances of alleged leftist guerrillas in the 1970s, has died at age 87....
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US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the U.S. Embassy said....
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2 whooping cough cases found at Philly-area school
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say two high school students have been diagnosed with the highly contagious infection known as whooping cough....
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Police: Pa. man kills estranged wife, boyfriend
FERNDALE, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a man killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend in an early-morning ambush at their apartment building....
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Sandusky asks Pa. court to see his grandchildren
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The former Penn State assistant football coach charged with child molestation asked for court permission Friday to see his grandchildren, visits currently prohibited under his bail conditions....
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Pa. hotel assailant gets 8 to 16 years in prison
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man who stabbed a newlywed woman during an attempted sexual assault in a Pittsburgh hotel elevator will spend the next eight to 16 years in prison....
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Santorum: Haven't considered dropping out of race
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Friday that he's in the race for the long haul and hasn't considered dropping out....
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Pa. WWII vet gets long-delayed Purple Heart
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Nearly 70 years after he earned it, Aaron Narvol has his Purple Heart....
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New exhibit in Philly looks at van Gogh close up
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A new blockbuster exhibition takes a close-up look at Vincent van Gogh's groundbreaking shift during the personally tumultuous but artistically triumphant last four years of his life in France....
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Ukrainian coach held in Pa. on teen sex charge
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Ukrainian hockey coach charged with fondling a teen player in Philadelphia will remain in custody until a bail hearing next week....
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Fight brewing over Pa. GOP's Senate endorsement
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's state Republican Party committee members are gathering this weekend as a clash brews over whether or who to endorse in the crowded field of candidates vying for the party's U.S. Senate nomination to contest Democrat Bob Casey's re-election bid this year....
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Former NFL player says ex-UGA coach duped him
ATLANTA (AP) -- Former NFL player Kendrell Bell has accused his college football coach at the University of Georgia of duping him out of $2 million....
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