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Thousands mourn slain Colorado girl, police seek help, tips for leads

By The Associated Press October 17, 2012

ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — More than 2,000 family members, friends, neighbors and others remembered a 10-year-old girl who was abducted on her way to school in a Denver suburb and killed. As the public...

Picasso, Monets stolen in Dutch heist from Rotterdam museum

By The Associated Press October 17, 2012

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions. Police...

Texas AG intervenes in cheerleader banner dispute on Bible references

By The Associated Press October 17, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday he will defend high school cheerleaders who want to use Bible verses on banners at football games. Abbott has filed court...

More than 600 dead in Sudan from fighting with rebels since 2011

By The Associated Press October 17, 2012

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan says that fighting in two states along its disputed border with South Sudan has left over 600 people dead over the past 16 months, releasing rare casualty figures in...

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2012 file photo shows a worker collecting white grapes in the vineyards of the Chateau Haut Brion, a Premier Grand Cru des Graves, during the grape harvest in Pessac-Leognan, near Bordeaux, southwestern France. The European Union's farmers' union is warning that drought, cold and hail have conspired to produce the worst wine harvest for the region in up to half a century, according to Farmers Union expert Thierry Coste on Wednesday Oct. 17, 2012. The Champagne and Burgundy regions were hard hit by weather conditions that particularly affected the chardonnay grape. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Wine experts say 2012 yields the worst grape harvest in 50 years

By The Associated Press October 17, 2012

BRUSSELS (AP) — Winemaker Cherie Spriggs had watched the bad weather over southern England’s vineyards all season long. It just wasn’t good enough for Nyetimber, her award-winning sparkling...

After spat, La. to have first black chief justice, Bernette Johnson

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a racially tinged power struggle inside its own ranks, ruling Tuesday that Bernette Johnson should be the state’s first black chief justice. ...

Monday night noise was explosion at Camp Minden industrial site

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

MINDEN (AP) — An explosion at the Camp Minden industrial site in northwest Louisiana was the source of a loud, ground-rattling boom that shook buildings and shattered windows in the nearby city of...

Shotgun wedding? Iowa jeweler offers rifles with engagement rings

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — Have you spent your life hunting for the perfect wife? Maybe you have met the one but are feeling gun shy? An Iowa jeweler is offering free rifles for husbands-to-be...

Gay man sues southern Ky. jail, says inmate bit off part of his nose

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An incarcerated gay man sued a southern Kentucky jail and a fellow inmate Tuesday, claiming the prisoner bit off part of his nose after days of harassment. Brandon Milam...

Shotgun wedding? Iowa jeweler offers rifles with engagement rings

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — Have you spent your life hunting for the perfect wife? Maybe you have met the one but are feeling gun shy? An Iowa jeweler is offering free rifles for husbands-to-be...

FILE- In this March 2, 2008, file photo, a red squirrel perches on a tree branch in Calais, Vt. Biologists say a variety of natural forces have combined to produce an overabundance of squirrels throughout Vermont and some adjoining states, devastating at least some apple orchards. It's expected the population could crash as rapidly as it grew.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Squirrel population boom from mild winter frustrates fruit growers

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Don’t let the bright eyes and bushy tails fool you. These squirrels are up to no good. Last year’s mild winter and a bumper crop of nuts have caused an apparent...

Airline executives urge airport security overhaul to cope with volume

By The Associated Press October 16, 2012

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airport security needs to undergo a radical overhaul or else passengers will become further disgruntled, lines will grow and terminals will be overwhelmed,...