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National & World (New) Leading insurer pays $109M for dog bite claims

By SUE MANNING Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 9:48 PM PDT

Dog bites man does not get a lot of attention in the news, but it costs insurance companies hundreds of millions in claims every year.

National & World GI killed in Cambodia awarded Medal of Honor (Photo Gallery)

By MARK S. SMITH Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 2:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has awarded an Army soldier the Medal of Honor 42 years after the rifleman was killed during a Vietnam-era clash in Cambodia.

National & World RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, found dead in NY (Photo Gallery)

By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 3:41 PM PDT

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.

National & World (New) Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births

By HOPE YEN Associated Pres Published: May 16, 2012 at 9:42 PM PDT

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

National & World Groom called his family about 'bad fight' before bride found dead

By CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 4:56 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM PDT

Hours after police found Estrella Carrera stabbed to death in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to celebrate her wedding to her on-and-off boyfriend, her family received a haunting phone call from the groom's family.

National & World Defense rests without calling Edwards, mistress (Video)

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 1:12 PM PDT

John Edwards' defense team rested Wednesday without calling the two-time Democratic presidential candidate or his one-time mistress to the witness stand, a sign of confidence after presenting little more than two days of testimony and evidence.

National & World Dancer: $1,000 buttocks enhancement damaged lungs

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM PDT

A Philadelphia woman dubbed "the Black Madam" used silicone from Thailand and Krazy Glue to perform at-home cosmetic surgery that left an exotic dancer with a plump derriere - and potentially deadly complications, the dancer testified Wednesday.

National & World Killer of 3 says he may request death

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:59 AM PDT

A man on Connecticut's death row for the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters says he believes the only way he will be put to death is if he volunteers for the lethal injection.

National & World Father: Woman with flesh-eating bug is alert

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:56 AM PDT

A week ago, doctors gave her little chance of survival. Now a Georgia grad student who is battling a rare flesh-eating infection is alert and bored enough to ask for a book, her father told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

National & World Investigators find 'black box' of plane that crashed into volcano

By ALI KOTARUMALOS Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:49 AM PDT

Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.

National & World EU navy, helicopters strike pirate supply center

By ABDI GULED and SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:54 AM PDT

European Union naval forces in attack helicopters on Tuesday conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back operations.

National & World Biden attacks Romney tenure as venture capitalist

By Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:46 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden is pouncing on Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in swing state Ohio, casting him as a corporate raider more interested in making profits than in the needs of workers.

National & World Obama assets valued between $2.6M and $8.3M

By KEN THOMAS Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 9:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hold assets worth between nearly $2.6 million and nearly $8.3 million, according to financial disclosure reports released Tuesday by the White House.

National & World New effort filed to free O.J. Simpson in Nevada

By KEN RITTER Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 4:01 PM PDT

A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from Nevada state prison, alleging the former football star was so badly represented in his trial and previous lawyers that he deserves a new one.

National & World Groom sought after bride slain in Ill. apartment

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 8:32 PM PDT

The groom is being sought in the stabbing death of his young bride hours after their marriage - his new wife's body found in a bathtub in the silver sequin cocktail dress she wore at her wedding reception and possibly at the wedding itself, police said Tuesday.

National & World Records detail George Zimmerman's medical injuries

By Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM PDT

Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

National & World U.S. officials sought for Guantanamo Sept. 11 trial

By Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 4:10 PM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2012 at 10:16 PM PDT

Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order testimony from senior U.S. government officials in a motion to dismiss charges.

Local & Regional LA residents swap rocket launcher, guns for groceries

By The Associated Press Published: May 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM PDT

Los Angeles residents turned 1,673 firearms over to police during the weekend in exchange for supermarket gift cards, including 53 assault weapons and one anti-tank rocket launcher.

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