CREDITORS FILE OBJECTIONS TO DETROIT BANKRUPTCY
By COREY WILLIAMS Mike Zielinkski leads protesters at a rally outside federal court in Detroit Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Deadline day arrived Monday for creditors to oppose Detroit’s request for…
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B-1B BOMBER CRASHES IN MONTANA, CREW EJECTS
By DIRK LAMMERS FILE – This Dec. 10, 2008 file photo provided by the US Air Force shows a B-1B Lancer bomber from the US Air Force’s 34th Expeditionary Squadron.…
JUDGE BARS MOST MOTIVE EVIDENCE IN FORT HOOD TRIAL
By MICHAEL GRACZYK and PAUL J. WEBER FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2013, file courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sits in court for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas.…
SC GOV: HEAVY RAINS A DISASTER FOR AGRICULTURE
By BRUCE SMITH South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and state Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers discuss the effect of this summer’s heavy rains on farmers in South Carolina during a news…
BENGHAZI AFTERSHOCKS AFFECTING US POLICY IN EGYPT
By BRADLEY KLAPPER President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events in Egypt, from his rental vacation home in Chilmark Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard,…
CAMPAIGN SEEKS TO PUSH SEATTLE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP FILE — In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Seattle police officers take Caroline Durocher, center, into custody after Durocher sat in a downtown intersection during…
AUTHORITIES: MEN SMUGGLED GUNS TO NYC ON B– USES
By TOM HAYS New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly looks at some of the guns seized as part of gun smuggling between the Carolinas and New York, Monday, Aug. 19,…
AP INTERVIEW: TOP IRAN ADVISER REACHES OUT TO WEST
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives an interview to The Associated…