Runaway Prius case presents nagging questions
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap ...
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Examiner unveils Lehman accounting tricks
By MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An accounting gimmick called Repo 105 provided financial relief for Lehman Brothers in the months before its spectacular collapse, an autopsy of the once-venerable Wall Street house has found. The ...
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Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans -- maybe even President Barack Obama -- are being overtre ...
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Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlement
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to agree to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed hea ...
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Women on the pill may live longer
By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer
LONDON (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1 ...
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US terror suspect in Yemen worked at 5 nuke sites
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Associated Press Writer
HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsyl ...
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Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders abandoned a long struggle to appease the most ardent abortion opponents in their ranks, gambling Thursday that they can secure the support for President Bara ...
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Lesbian teen sues over prom flap; back at school
By SHELIA BYRD
Associated Press Writer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
On T ...
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HBO brings WWII veterans to memorial in DC
By BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole welcomed 250 veterans to the World War II memorial Thursday to honor their service and introduce a TV miniseries on the battles of the Pacific. ...
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Toyota troubles put spotlight on US safety agency
By KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government may require automakers to include brake systems that can override the gas pedal in response to Toyota's massive recalls, auto safety officials told Co ...
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