Report: Health care law rebates to top $1B
WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies will have to return more than $1 billion this year to consumers and businesses, thanks to a new requirement …
Widow says activist husband killed at Wounded Knee, want him home
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight …
Student loan interest hike debate gets mired in politics
WASHINGTON — In the political campaigns still taking shape, President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and lawmakers of both parties say they want to …
Persistent rumors add to chaos in country seeking to rebuild
Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE — One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details but that didn’t …
Zimmerman shocker: $200K Internet money
Associated Press SANFORD — An attorney for the man charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black teen said Friday the neighborhood watch …
Supreme Court affirms redistricting
The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE — The Republican-led Legislature’s do-over of the state Senate redistricting map won approval Friday from the Florida Supreme Court which rejected …
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PUERTO RICO Band leader arrested in child porn case SAN JUAN — U.S. federal officials said a former director of a Puerto Rican municipal marching …
First black U.S. Olympics chief LeRoy Walker dies
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) —LeRoy Walker, the first African American to lead the U.S. Olympic Committee and the first black man to coach an American Olympic …
Judge says race was ‘pervasive’ in death penalty case
Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A condemned killer’s trial was so tainted by the racially influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from …
LeBron James: Transition over, ready to be take-charge player
MIAMI (AP) — A year ago, it was all different. LeBron James calls it a transition phase, one where he was wrapped up in figuring …