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SEATTLE - They weren’t just two guys who loved trains. Jim Hamre and Zack Willhoite were also bosom buddies in their passion for public transportation who had excitedly awaited the day higher-sp...
News Dec 19, 2017
JAYESS, Miss. - Officials continued to search Tuesday night for a Mississippi man who they believe shot and killed another man, wounded a woman and set two houses on fire. Mississippi Highway Patrol s...
News Dec 19, 2017
SAN DIEGO - Mexico has sent one of the top alleged traffickers for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel to the U.S. to face charges. Victor Manuel Felix appeared before a federal judge in San Diego on Tue...
News Dec 19, 2017
NEW YORK - The author of the online sensation “Cat Person” has a seven-figure book deal. Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kristen ...
News Dec 19, 2017
NEW ORLEANS - Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons will reign as Bacchus L for the 2018 Mardi Gras season. Simmons will reign as the god of wine over the carnival krewe’s 50th anniversary parade, w...
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WATERTOWN, Mass. - A Massachusetts grocery store employee has surprised shoppers with his operatic renditions of popular Christmas music. Tony Russo, owner of Russo’s Market in Watertown, tells ...
News Dec 19, 2017
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh on Tuesday, which the rebels said was targeting a “to...
News Dec 19, 2017
NEW YORK - It began with a news story, and then a tweet, and suddenly it seemed like everything had changed overnight. 2017 will forever be known as the Year of the Reckoning. Or, more precisely, the ...
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TOPEKA, Kan. - The state mental hospital in eastern Kansas has regained federal certification for one of its treatment units after two years of working to address safety and patient care issues, a dos...
News Dec 19, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C. - A Chinese tiremaker is moving more aggressively into the U.S. market, announcing plans Tuesday for a North Carolina factory that is to eventually employ 800 and produce six million tir...
News Dec 19, 2017