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Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

By The Associated Press
November 27, 2011

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his...

Top Marine says service embracing gay ban repeal

By The Associated Press
November 27, 2011

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Since the lifting two months ago of a longstanding U.S. ban on gays serving openly in the military, U.S. Marines across the globe have adapted smoothly and embraced the change,...

Nigeria moves to ban, criminalize gay marriage

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November 22, 2011

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When a gang of men ambushed Rashidi Williams and a male friend earlier this year, the 25-year-old gay Nigerian was too afraid to report the attack to police or even to his family. Doing...

Mass. fishermen snare 881-pound tuna, only to be seized by feds

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November 22, 2011

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — It's the big one that got taken away. Local fishing boat owner Carlos Rafael was elated when one of his trawlers snared an 881-pound bluefin tuna earlier this month. But...

Free HIV tests offered at Bayou Classic

By The Associated Press
November 22, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bayou Classic fans are being encouraged to take a free HIV test while in New Orleans for the annual football matchup between arch rivals Southern University and Grambling State. The...

NASA launching ‘dream machine’ to explore Mars

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November 22, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill. Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch...

Baton Rouge EMS in need of additional workers

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November 22, 2011

(AP) — East Baton Rouge Parish Emergency Medical Services administrator Pam Porter says her department is painfully understaffed to the point that there are not enough employees to answer all the...

Glitzy Vietnam cemetery offers bling for the dead

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November 22, 2011

KY SON, Vietnam (AP) — This is where Vietnam's rising middle class is dying to flaunt its bling: a new cemetery at the end of a golden-gated "Highway to Eternity" where relatives can order graveside...

Additional troopers coming to New Orleans for Thanksgiving

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November 22, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The head of Louisiana State Police say he's sending 30 troopers from southeast Louisiana to New Orleans to help with enforcement over the Thanksgiving holiday in the central business...

Robert Champion, a drum major in Florida A&M University’s Marching 100 band, performs Saturday only hours before his death, which is suspected to involve hazing.

Hazing investigated in Florida A&M band member’s death

By The Associated Press
November 22, 2011

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida A&M University's famed Marching 100 band, which has a history of hazing, has been shut down until investigators find out more about how one of its members died...

Lawmakers adopt state secrets bill in South Africa

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November 22, 2011

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The governing African National Congress pushed a bill through South Africa's parliament Tuesday to protect state secrets, despite strong objections from opposition politicians...

UK to completely cut financial ties with all Iranian banks Monday

By The Associated Press
November 21, 2011

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will cut financial ties with Iranian banks over fears about its nuclear program, Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Monday. Osborne said all U.K. financial institutions...