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Ex-Peace Corps worker gets 15 years for sex abuse

HARTFORD, Conn. - A former Peace Corps volunteer apologized for sexually abusing young girls while serving in South Africa and acknowledged the widespread fallout from his crimes before he was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison.


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Pence defends attendance record, attacks Gregg

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. - Republican Mike Pence defended his attendance record in Congress during the first gubernatorial debate Wednesday night and went on the attack against John Gregg for deficits the state ran up when the Democrat was speaker of the Indiana House.



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Man behind anti-Muslim film to appear in court

LOS ANGELES - A California man with many aliases who was behind an anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East is expected to be asked by a judge Wednesday whether he violated his probation for a 2010 bank fraud conviction.


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SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A private company successfully delivered a half-ton of supplies to the International Space Station early Wednesday, the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.



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Pa. moves to revoke Sandusky's pension

Pennsylvania's public employee pension system said Wednesday it will revoke Jerry Sandusky's $59,000 annual pension in the wake of his conviction and sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal.


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2 dead, 1 trapped in US parking garage collapse

MIAMI - A section of a parking garage under construction at a community college collapsed Wednesday, killing two people and trapping two others in the rubble, officials said. One worker was rescued amid the debris, but there was too much concrete around the other to immediately get him out.



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1 dead, 2 trapped in Fla. parking garage collapse

MIAMI - A section of a parking garage under construction at a community college collapsed Wednesday, killing one worker and trapping at least two others in the rubble, officials said. Several other workers were hurt.


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McCaskill hits Akin with ads featuring raped women

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill took aim Wednesday at Republican challenger Todd Akin with a new series of TV ads featuring rape survivors outraged by Akin's remark about "legitimate rape" and his opposition to emergency contraception.


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Dozens protest shooting of naked Alabama student

MOBILE, Ala. - Dozens of students gathered at the site of a deadly campus shooting on Wednesday to protest the killing of a naked, unarmed student by a University of South Alabama police officer.


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Skydiver cancels try at supersonic jump

ROSWELL, N.M. - Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner canceled his planned death-defying 23-mile free fall Tuesday because of high winds, the second time this week he was forced to postpone his quest to become the world's first supersonic skydiver.






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