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LA designer says Facebook bride wore her dress
Los Angeles-based designer Claire Pettibone says Priscilla Chan was wearing one of her dresses when she married Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Pettibone wrote on her blog that she didn't know Chan was wearing one of her most popular creations until she saw one of the photos released from Saturday's surprise ...
8 hurt in fight, gunfire after Thunder-Lakers game
Oklahoma City police say a fight that escalated into gunfire and left eight people injured — one critically — was not related to the Thunder-Lakers NBA playoff game. Police Capt. Dexter Nelson says no arrests have been made in the Monday night incident. It happened after the game had just ...
Browns' Fujita says bounty charges "not true"
Forced to fight for his name in a "public trial" against the NFL, Browns linebacker Scott Fujita vowed he did not participate in the New Orleans Saints' bounty program. Fujita, suspended for three games by the league for allegedly contributing "a significant amount" of money to a pay-for-hits pool while ...
Senate panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt
In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel on Tuesday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes U.S. assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on ...
Ford to get blue oval back after second upgrade
Ford Motor Co. is getting its blue oval logo back. Moody's Investors Service raised Ford's debt ratings to investment-grade Tuesday for the first time in seven years. The upgrade means that all Ford's assets, including factories and the blue oval logo, are back in the company's hands and will no ...
NFL wins salary cap fight with Redskins, Cowboys
An arbitrator upheld the NFL's salary cap reductions on the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins for this season and next. Stephen Burbank ruled Tuesday in favor of the league and dismissed the grievances by both teams. The Redskins lost $36 million over two years. The Cowboys lost $10 million for ...
Passenger's suspicious claim diverts jet to Maine
An FBI spokesman says there's no indication that a US Airways jetliner or its passengers were in danger before the Paris-to-North Carolina flight diverted to Maine. Officials briefed on the incident say a French passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device. Sen. ...
Priest: We weren't prepared for abuse complaints
A priest assigned to help with child sex-abuse complaints at the Philadelphia archdiocese in the early 1990s says he was "woefully unprepared" and left after a year. Monsignor James Beisel's (BYE'-zuhlz) testimony comes in the child-endangerment and conspiracy trial of his friend, Monsignor William Lynn. Lynn is accused of keeping ...
Biden keeps up criticism of Romney's business past
The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that Romney's experience doesn't make him any more qualified to be president than it does to make him a plumber. "That doesn't mean that private ...
APNewsBreak: NKorea upgrading rocket launch site
Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site ...
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