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BOSTON (AP) — Republican officials are looking to promote a fresh group of diverse rising stars to help resolve their election woes, while frustrated party elders insist that all Republicans must offer more solutions for the nation’s most pressing issues....

WEST TISBURY, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is filling his Martha’s Vineyard vacation with golf, visits to friends’ homes and dinners out with the first lady. But he will have to wait just a little bit longer to do one other thing: spend time with h...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt faced a new phase of uncertainty on Thursday after the bloodiest day since its Arab Spring began, with nearly 300 people reported killed and thousands injured as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist pre...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian navy divers have entered a crippled submarine hit by twin explosions but have yet to reach any of the 18 sailors who are feared dead inside the vessel, a naval official said Thursday. The Russian-built submarine had also been damag...

Artist Vicki Glynn demonstrated her technique for painting watercolor at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda on Thursday....

Artist Vicki Glynn demonstrated her technique for painting watercolor at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda on Thursday....

The Charlotte County School Board is reeling from a slew of new state mandates that are creating unintended consequences, including one that requires school districts to pay the freight for high school students’ dual-enrollment classes.
“Most school distr...

PORT CHARLOTTE — Detectives are requesting the public’s assistance to identify a man who burglarized the Burger King restaurant on King’s Highway overnight. Just after midnight Aug. 15, 2013), an unknown man was knocking on the drive-through window at the...

PUNTA GORDA — A local man was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in the head with a BB gun on Monday, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
Christopher Eric Benning, 31, of the 1800 block of Cooper Street, was arrested on ...

MADRID (AP) — Minube, a travel startup on the outskirts of Madrid, is doing something that many Spanish companies haven’t thought about for years: It’s hiring.
The company, which sells bookings as it helps travelers share their experiences using social me...