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GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. - After three days of searching the flanks of Mount Hood for two missing climbers, officials were assessing what to do next as a winter storm barreled toward Oregon's largest peak. Full Story »
Two weather systems were forecast to produce unsettling weather activity in the West and East on Tuesday. Full Story »
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - Members of a family living in Southern California were found dead Monday in a home inside an upscale gated community in Orange County, authorities said. Full Story »
SAN JUAN, Texas - A south Texas couple put an aborted 7-month-old fetus in a gift box under a Christmas tree after they were unable to flush the remains down a toilet, authorities alleged Monday. Full Story »
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Three Providence, R.I., police detectives have been shot and wounded during a drug raid. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's two main river basins and the aquifers beneath its agricultural heartland have lost nearly enough water since 2003 to fill Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir, new satellite data showed on Monday. Full Story »
As of Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, at least 4,370 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Full Story »
HONOLULU - New and dramatic species of coral and sponges have been found in the Pacific during deep sea dives near the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists said Monday. Full Story »
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WASHINGTON - The widely played video clip of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer reprimanding a general for calling her "ma'am" is the gift that keeps on giving for the two Republicans hoping to challenge her next year. Full Story »
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A convicted triple murderer has been indicted in the slayings of five Southern California women in the 1980s and '90s. Full Story »
FRESNO, Calif. - New data from satellites show the vast underground pools feeding faucets and irrigation hoses across California are running low, a worrisome trend federal scientists largely attribute to aggressive agricultural pumping. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO - A group campaigning to put a marijuana legalization measure before California voters said Monday it has enough signatures to qualify for the 2010 ballot. Full Story »
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born Chicago businessman charged with helping plan an attack on a Danish newspaper knew about the assault on Mumbai in advance and discussed other potential targets in India, prosecutors said on Monday. Full Story »
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WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Full Story »
DENVER - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional and privacy rights of suspected illegal immigrants when they used tax returns to try and build hundreds of identity theft cases against them. Full Story »
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MIDLAND, Michigan (AFP) - The signs posted along Michigan's Tittabawassee River warning of dangerous dioxin levels don't really worry fisherman David Mitchell. Full Story »
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MADISON, Wis. - During what police say was a 20-year killing spree in Milwaukee, Walter Ellis left his DNA behind all along the way — everywhere but the one place where it might have saved a life. Full Story »
A look at key issues in the health care debate: Full Story »
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