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  • Get the waffles! Maple syrup spills on New Hampshire highway
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 3:07 am

    The only thing missing was the waffles.

  • Principal’s suicide, forged tests rock promising NYC school
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 3:07 am

    Jeanene Worrell-Breeden had what she called a dream job running a public school linked with Columbia University’s Teachers College when she killed herself by jumping in front of a subway car this spring.

  • Florida congressional delegation will see upheaval in 2016
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 2:07 am

    Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential ambitions and a court ruling tossing out several congressional district maps will cause upheaval among Florida’s representation in Washington, including political complications for a congresswoman considered one of the state’s few Democratic stars.

  • Theater shooting: No red flags reported at time of gun sale
    Theater shooting: No red flags reported at time of gun sale
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 2:07 am

    John Russell Houser’s mental problems were well known to many, though perhaps not to the store that sold him the .40-caliber handgun used in a deadly attack on a Louisiana movie theater. A federal background check came back clean, the pawn shop said, with no red flags raised at the time of sale.

  • Obama ivory crackdown leaves open California loopholes
    Obama ivory crackdown leaves open California loopholes
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 2:07 am

    Ivory dealers in San Francisco’s Chinatown stood in their shop doors besides store windows full of carved ivory tusks and trinkets this week, unfazed by President Barack Obama’s announcement of proposed rules that the White House says go as far as the administration can go toward banning all U.S. trade of ivory from the world’s endangered elephants.

  • Colorado theater shooter's sister says she still loves him
    Colorado theater shooter’s sister says she still loves him
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 1:07 am

    When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, she no longer saw the loving brother who protected her when they were growing up.

  • Dozens of brilliant bronze works on display at Getty Museum
    Dozens of brilliant bronze works on display at Getty Museum
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 1:07 am

    It’s almost as if the dozens of exquisitely detailed, often perfectly intact bronze sculptures on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum disappeared into an ancient witness-protection program — and decided to stay there for thousands of years.

  • Number of wildfires in California up, but damage is smaller
    Number of wildfires in California up, but damage is smaller
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 12:07 am

    California has seen more wildfires so far this year, but the acreage burned is smaller thanks to favorable weather and more firefighters who can quickly be dispatched to corral flames, fire officials say.

  • Federal officials examine probable cause of spaceship crash
    Federal officials examine probable cause of spaceship crash
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 12:07 am

    The National Transportation Safety Board is considering what caused a Virgin Galactic spaceship to break apart over the Mojave Desert during a test flight 10 months ago, killing the co-pilot and seriously injuring the pilot.

  • Short-term highway extension may be way out for Congress
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 12:07 am

    House Republicans are weighing a three-month highway funding extension that could offer Congress a way out of an impasse days ahead of a crucial deadline.

  • Microsoft launches Windows 10: Here’s what that means
    Associated Press | July 28, 2015 12:07 am

    Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuts Wednesday, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out a new role in a world where people increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets and information stored online.

  • Experts: Report shows Sandra Bland may have used pot in jail
    Experts: Report shows Sandra Bland may have used pot in jail
    Associated Press | July 27, 2015 11:07 pm

    An initial toxicology report for Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail cell three days after her arrest during a traffic stop, raises the possibility that she may have used marijuana while in custody, two experts said.

  • Police: Body believed to be missing California girl found
    Associated Press | July 27, 2015 10:07 pm

    A body believed to be a missing 8-year-old girl was found Monday inside a dumpster at a complex in Northern California where she was last seen riding her scooter and a 15-year-old boy has been detained in the case, police said.

  • Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
    Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
    Associated Press | July 27, 2015 10:07 pm

    The Boy Scouts of America has ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders but will allow church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.

  • Prison employee accused of helping 2 killers escape in court
    Prison employee accused of helping 2 killers escape in court
    Associated Press | July 27, 2015 10:07 pm

    A New York prison worker accused of smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run will face charges in court.