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2 ex-Utah attorneys general charged with bribery 07/15/2014 08:00pm • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two former Utah attorneys general were arrested on an array of bribery charges Tuesday stemming from cozy relationships with several businessmen, a stunning fall for a pair of politicians who built immense political clout in their years at th James MacGregor Burns, historian, dies at 95 07/15/2014 07:12pm • PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) -- James MacGregor Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist who analyzed the nature of presidential leadership and wrote candid biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday at 95.Burns died at his home in D.C.'s first shipping container apartments coming to Brookland 07/15/2014 05:00am • Matthew Grace and Sean Joiner are doing their part to save the planet, one shipping container apartment at a time. Brookland Equity Group LLC, led by Grace and Joiner, was issued a permit Friday to convert a single-family home at 3305 Seventh St. NE in Brookland into a three-story, four-unit shippin New Mexico judge elected by coin toss after tie 07/14/2014 10:08am • GALLUP, N.M. (AP) -- A New Mexico county magistrate race that ended in a tie has finally come to a head, or rather, heads.Kenneth Howard Jr. made the lucky call in a coin toss Tuesday in a Gallup courtroom, winning a four-year term as McKinley County magistrate judge.The Gallup Independent reports ( Probation for official who stole $460K in quarters 07/10/2014 04:04pm • HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- The former public works inspector for a northern New Jersey town who admitted stealing $460,000 in quarters over two years has been spared a prison term.A judge instead sentenced Thomas Rica on Wednesday to five years of probation.Rica had worked in Ridgewood for 10 years be 5 things about Cleveland, likely GOP host in 2016 07/09/2014 11:48am • MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) -- Good or bad, Cleveland -- all but certain to host the Republican Party's presidential nominating convention in 2016 -- is hard to ignore. It's a city with a rich history and bragging rights to things both quirky and considerable. Here are five things Vet who died after collapse had served in Vietnam 07/07/2014 06:50pm • RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A veteran who collapsed in an Albuquerque veterans hospital cafeteria -- 500 yards from an emergency room -- before he died was a 71-year-old husband who had served in the Vietnam War, his family said Monday.The family of Jim Napoleon Garc Amazon vows to fight FTC on kids in-app purchases 07/03/2014 06:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Amazon says that it is prepared to go to court against the Federal Trade Commission to defend itself against charges that it has not done enough to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases.The FTC alleged in a draft lawsuit released by Amazon that unauthorized c Orioles' Machado gets 5-game suspension from MLB 06/30/2014 06:06pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) -- Orioles third baseman Manny Machado began serving a five-game suspension Monday, nearly three weeks after Major League Baseball initially levied the sentence and five days after his appeal hearing.Machado was suspended and fined on June 10 for intent Arizona's McCarthy gets rare win, beats Padres 2-1 06/28/2014 01:54am • JAY PARIS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson asked starter Brandon McCarthy how many runs he needed Friday night."He said, 'one,'" Gibson said. "We got him two."That was enough the way McCarthy dominated the punchless Padres in a 2-1 victory.McCarthy (2-10) w T1red of p@sswords? Y0u @re N*t @lone! 06/27/2014 02:56am • MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Good thing she doesn't need a password to get into heaven. That's what Donna Spinner often mutters when she tries to remember the growing list of letter-number-and-symbol codes she's had to create to access her various online accounts."At my age, it j Weekly Crime Report: June 9 to June 17 06/26/2014 03:15pm • Police report a break-in and two other thefts from cars in a Bethesda Metro station parking garage: Three thefts from vehicles occurred in the parking lot at Bethesda Metro Center in Bethesda between Thursday, 6/11 and Friday, 6/12. One vehicle had forced entry and two did not. Glasses, sm Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 06/25/2014 05:12pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugl Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 06/25/2014 05:12pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugl Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 06/25/2014 05:12pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugl