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Three Bolivian ministers step down over crackdown on anti-road march

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September 26, 2011

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's interior minister has resigned over a police crackdown on marchers opposed to a jungle highway that they say would despoil an indigenous preserve.   Sacha Llorenti...

Saudi woman sentenced to 10 lashes for driving car

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September 26, 2011

CAIRO (AP) — A Saudi woman was sentenced Tuesday to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom's prohibition on female drivers, the first time a legal punishment has been handed down...

Coast Guard: Sheen in Gulf not a leak from capped BP well

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September 26, 2011

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says a series of "sheen sightings" have been reported in the area where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, but BP's capped...

Fla. welfare applicants less likely to use drugs, preliminary figures show

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September 26, 2011

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian...

BR seventh-grader booked with two counts of attempted murder

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September 26, 2011

(AP) — A 13-year-old seventh-grade student at Capitol Middle School has been booked with two counts of attempted murder after he allegedly shot a gun at a vehicle driving away from an apparent drug...

Dr. Adolfo Roitman presents a part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Monday.

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online, launched by Google

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September 25, 2011

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in...

Tournament participants say Atchafalaya Spillway alive, active

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September 25, 2011

(AP) — While the debate continues about the Atchafalaya Spillway's 14-inch minimum-size bass limit, fishermen at the recent Anglers Against Autism tournament talked about abundance — and the...

Bomb squad makes odd find in unclaimed luggage at airport

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September 25, 2011

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a bomb squad called to the world's busiest airport found something fishy about the unclaimed luggage at Atlanta's international airport — spicy fish wrapped up in...

LSU scientists studying oil spill with bugs, sparrows, oysters

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September 25, 2011

(AP) — Pelicans and other birds drenched in oil got lots of attention during last year's BP oil spill. But bugs? LSU Agricultural Center scientists will compare bugs and spiders from areas hit by...