LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A failed proposal to legalize medical marijuana saw the strongest support in Arkansas' urban areas and in a handful of Mississippi Delta counties while rural areas overwhelmingly rejected the measure.
Complete but unofficial election returns show the strongest support in Pulaski and Washington counties, where 56% of voters
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By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio nurse has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison after she unexpectedly pleaded guilty in the malnutrition death of a teen who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died.
Mollie Parsons had been set to go to trial Wednesday. She pleaded guilty Tuesday to involuntary
...HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State President Graham Spanier was arraigned and released on bail at a brief court appearance Wednesday on charges he lied about and concealed the child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, accompanied by his
...NEW YORK (AP) - Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy waited with dread Wednesday and heard warnings to evacuate for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm spun toward them and threatened to inundate their homes again or simply
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Democrats strengthened their hold on the Senate but failed Tuesday to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives they lost two years ago. President Barack Obama, in his freshly authorized second term, will face the same divided Congress in 2013 that has bedeviled efforts to enact his
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