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Louisiana Tech running back Tyronne Duplessis found dead in apartment

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February 2, 2012

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Louisiana Tech running back Tyronne Duplessis was found dead Thursday morning at his off-campus apartment. Hazel Woods, the chief investigator for the Lincoln Parish coroner's...

Washington Senate approves bill to legalize gay marriage

By The Associated Press
February 2, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh to allow gay and lesbian...

Well-known Egyptian comedian sentenced for offending Islam

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February 2, 2012

CAIRO (AP) — One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile...

A police officer stands Thursday next to a police vehicle damaged during a homemade mortars attack to the police station in Villa Rica, Colombia.

Six dead and 20 wounded in new attack on Colombian cops

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February 2, 2012

VILLA RICA, Colombia (AP) — Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, the regional...

Russia postpones space launch because of capsule leaks

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

MOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia's space agency says that a manned launch to the International Space Station is being postponed from March 30 because of faults found in the Soyuz capsule. Vladimir...

Fall shrimp season to close Thursday in most southeast La. waters

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham says the fall shrimp season will close at sunset Thursday in most remaining southeast Louisiana waters. He says the...

Mexico’s swine flu cases increases in January after low year

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide. Salomon Chertorivski...

Report proposes a $9.5 million project dividing Great Lakes

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region on Tuesday proposed spending up to $9.5 billion on a massive engineering project to separate the lakes...

Researchers find prostate cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

CAIRO (AP) — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment...

NFL, La. recording company settle legal dispute over Who Dat? chant

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NFL and a Louisiana recording company have resolved their legal dispute over merchandising rights to the "Who Dat?" chant, a popular refrain of New Orleans Saints fans. A federal...

College endowments show growth for the 2011 fiscal year

By The Associated Press
February 1, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — College and university endowments made gains in the fiscal year that ended in June, but many are still struggling to make up ground they lost in 2008 and 2009, according to a report...

Man on felony warrant rescued after being stuck in N.M. mud for 3 days

By The Associated Press
January 30, 2012

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard...