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Malloy proposing boost in charter school support

6 hours 49 min ago
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is set to propose an increase in charter school funding and more incentives for local districts to create some of the alternative schools on their own.


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Indy cleans up from Super Bowl revelry

6 hours 59 min ago
Indianapolis is cleaning up from its biggest party so far, wondering if it left enough of a favorable impression to bring the Super Bowl back to the Circle City.


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Iran arrests several on links to BBC Farsi service

7 hours 47 min ago
Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency says authorities have arrested several people over alleged links to the British Broadcasting Corporation's Farsi-language service.


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3rd US cruise ship sails after virus outbreak

8 hours 7 min ago
A third U.S.-based cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach illness has sailed again after being decontaminated in South Florida.


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Greece to start work on anti-migrant border fence

8 hours 17 min ago
Greek authorities say they will start work next month on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) fence on the country's border with Turkey to deter waves of illegal immigration.


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Obama: Syria can be solved without military action

8 hours 17 min ago
President Barack Obama says it is important to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria without outside military intervention.


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Libyan military court tries Gadhafi loyalists

8 hours 27 min ago
A Libyan prosecutor says 40 suspects have appeared before a military tribunal in the country's first trial of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists since the dictator's overthrow.


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Serbia, Bosnia struggle under record cold snap

8 hours 27 min ago
Overwhelmed by record snow and harsh temperatures, Serbia and Bosnia closed down schools and struggled to continue public transport and garbage pick-up Monday, as authorities focused on trying to help thousands trapped in the region's remote mountain villages.


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1 hurt in Southbridge shooting

8 hours 39 min ago
Police in Southbridge say they don't believe there is a danger to the public despite a weekend shooting in town.


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Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions

8 hours 47 min ago
Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group who said the law also violated free speech rights.


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Peabody man dies in Route 128 rollover

8 hours 49 min ago
State police say a 30-year-old Peabody man has died in a single-car rollover on Route 128 in Danvers that also injured the passenger.


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US Official: China and Russia will regret UN vote

8 hours 57 min ago
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice says China and Russia are running of risk of suffering the same sort of international isolation as Syria's Bashar Assad because of their decision to block a U.N. Security Council vote embracing an Arab League solution for the Syrian crisis.


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Ambassador Rice: Egypt must release Americans

9 hours 27 min ago
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is keeping up the Obama administration's pressure on Egypt to release 19 Americans facing trial on allegations of encouraging unrest in the country.


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Missing Holyoke police rifle recovered

9 hours 29 min ago
A sniper rifle reported lost by a Holyoke police officer has been recovered while the city's new mayor was along for a ride with officers.


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Feds probe Beth Israel's billing practices

10 hours 29 min ago
Officials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have confirmed that federal investigators have subpoenaed six years of hospital records as part of an investigation into whether the hospital overbilled Medicare by admitting patients for short stays who could have been treated less expensively as outpatients.


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Northfield man dies while out chopping wood

10 hours 49 min ago
Police say a 79-year-old man has died after striking his head while out in the woods near his Northfield home.


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Report: Iran navy rescues tanker from pirates

12 hours 37 min ago
Iran's state TV reports that the country's navy has opened fire on pirates to foil an attack on an Iranian oil tanker near the Gulf of Aden.


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Mushroom pickers lost hope, considered eating dog

12 hours 47 min ago
Dan Conne says he and his wife and son thought they were going to die after getting lost while picking mushrooms and spending nearly a week in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon.


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