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AP Top U.S. News At 4:20 p.m. EST
Carjacking victim says fugitive ex-cop was calm
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) -- A man whose truck was taken by a carjacker believed to be ex-Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner says the fugitive appeared calm and didn't want to hurt him....
Carnival cancels 12 more cruises on troubled ship
HOUSTON (AP) -- Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled voyages through April aboard the Triumph, a ship that has been plagued by mechanical problems in recent weeks and was finally left powerless in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine-room fire....
Minn. man charged with murder in shooting spree
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old man with murdering a 9-year-old boy and wounding his mother and another woman while apparently shooting randomly at passing cars in the St. Paul, Minn., suburb where he lives....
3 arrested in NJ videotaped stripping, whipping
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The haunting video, shot on a hot summer night, starts with a young man being ordered to strip naked as he is berated by a group around him....
Guam stabbing rampage suspect held on $2M bail
A Guam judge has ordered $2 million bail for a man accused of killing two Japanese visitors and injuring 12 others after he drove his car into pedestrians and went on a stabbing rampage in the U.S. territory's tourist district....
Calls for action at Senate immigration hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers who are shaping the fate of the millions of people in the U.S. illegally were told by one Wednesday that it's time to rewrite immigration laws so that they, too, can live the American dream....
Ohio town latest focus of religion legal debate
JACKSON, Ohio (AP) -- Since just after World War II, a portrait of Jesus has hung in a Jackson City Schools building, attracting little discussion and no controversy that anyone seems to recall....
Boehner: 'Hard to imagine' budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner says "it's hard to imagine" the Republican-led House and Democratic-controlled Senate reaching a budget deal....
2 wounded in shooting outside SC courthouse
CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) -- A man involved in a paternity dispute opened fire Wednesday in front of a South Carolina courthouse, wounding a woman and her stepfather, then led police on a 12-mile chase before he was caught, a sheriff said....
House clears disaster aid for houses of worship
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow houses of worship damaged by Superstorm Sandy to receive federal disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency....
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