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MARS, Pa. (AP) — A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson.
WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The prosecutors pursuing the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will soon begin trying to answer a difficult but key question: Why did Maj. Nidal Hasan attack his fellow soldi...

MIAMI (AP) — Male teens at a juvenile detention facility destroyed several buildings and sparked two fires during a riot, injuring seven people, authorities said Sunday.
Eighteen of the 20 buildings at Avon Park Youth Academy were destroyed, causing hund...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — No one may ever know Barbara Mancini’s intentions when she allegedly handed her dying 93-year-old father a bottle of morphine at his central Pennsylvania home.
Did she want to relieve his pain? Help him end his life? Both?
Joe Yoursha...

NEW YORK (AP) — After years of burnishing a reputation as one of the nation’s most potent police forces, the New York Police Department appears poised to become one of the most closely monitored.
A federal judge this week said the department made thousan...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is serving up success at the box office.
Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, accord...

CAIRO (AP) — Security forces fired tear gas at a prison truck Sunday in an attempt to free a police officer from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 suspects rounded up during street clashes between Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has returned from Angola, where he visited a landmine clearance charity championed by his late mother, Princess Diana.
The HALO Trust charity said Saturday the 28-year-old prince visited the Angolan town of Cuito Cuana...

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — It’s been five months since Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned her job as Florida’s lieutenant governor.
Since then her suite of offices has been cleared out and her staff has long since departed. Her name has been removed from the dire...

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are split over whether the U.S. should cut off military aid to Egypt, highlighting the difficult choices facing the Obama administration amid spiraling violence on the streets of an important Middle East ally.
Democratic l...