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Obama Says He Wants Oil Producers to Boost Output

Apr 26, 2011 - 8:54 PM |AP

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WASHINGTON -- As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their...

Teleprompter Inventor Hubert Schlafly Dies in Conn. at 91

Apr 26, 2011 - 8:13 PM |AP

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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades' worth of soap opera actors, newscasters and politicians from the embarrassment...

Colo. Mall Bomb Suspect Caught; No Word on Motive

Apr 26, 2011 - 8:06 PM |AP

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BOULDER, Colo. -- A man suspected of leaving a homemade bomb at a Colorado shopping mall was captured without a fight outside a grocery store some 30 miles away Tuesday following a nationwide alert...

NJ Election Official: Carl Lewis Can't Run for Senate

Apr 26, 2011 - 5:14 PM |AP

Julio Cortez, AP

TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's top election official ruled Tuesday that nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis is ineligible to run for state Senate because he failed to meet the four-year state...

Army Corps Delays Decision on Breaking Mo. Levee

Apr 26, 2011 - 4:53 PM |AP

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has put off making a final decision on a controversial plan to intentionally breach a levee protecting valuable farmland from the rising Mississippi...

Couric Confirms She's Leaving 'CBS Evening News'

Apr 26, 2011 - 3:33 PM |AP

Peter Kramer, AP

NEW YORK -- Katie Couric has confirmed that she's leaving her anchor job at the "CBS Evening News." Couric also told People magazine in a story published Tuesday on its website that she...

Athletes and Businesspeople Give 9-Year-Old Hero New Leg

Apr 26, 2011 - 2:25 PM |AOL News

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A group of Southern athletes and businesspeople is banding together to provide a young hero with a new leg. AOL News shared Anaiah Rucker's story in March. The courageous 9-year-old straight-A...

Son Graduates at Dying Mother's Bedside

Apr 26, 2011 - 2:18 PM |AOL News

Mary Vilett is dying of lung cancer. As her family members prepare to say goodbye to their wife and mother, they are filling her last days with pomp, circumstance, wedding bells and love. They...

Boston Hospital Performs Second Full Face Transplant

Apr 26, 2011 - 1:41 PM |AP

BOSTON -- Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed the nation's second full-face transplant, less than a month after the first. A team of more than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham...

Kate Middleton Mix-Up: Facebook Deletes Boston Woman's Account

Apr 26, 2011 - 12:47 PM |AP

CONCORD, Mass. -- Yes, she really is Kate Middleton. Kate Middleton, the Boston bicycle enthusiast, that is. But that hasn't stopped the 32-year-old from being confused with the woman who is about...

Moms of Minnesota Girls: No Warning Signs Before Suicides

Apr 26, 2011 - 10:50 AM |AOL News

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The mothers of two Minnesota eighth-graders who hanged themselves during a sleepover said today that there were no warning signs and that they had tried to help their daughters cope with bullying the...

Woman Mauled to Death by Pit Bulls in Truth or Consequences, NM

Apr 26, 2011 - 10:22 AM |AOL News

Laura Russell says she can still hear the screams. The New Mexico woman says she hasn't been able to sleep since she saw her neighbor, Margaret Salcedo, fatally mauled by a pack of pit bulls on...