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Stopchargingmaria earns win at Saratoga 07/21/2014 07:54am • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Stopchargingmaria took command approaching the stretch and drew off impressively to capture the Grade 1 $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks by five lengths Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.Already a multiple graded stakes winner, the 3-year-old daughter of Tale of the C Stopchargingmaria earns win at Saratoga 07/21/2014 07:54am • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Stopchargingmaria took command approaching the stretch and drew off impressively to capture the Grade 1 $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks by five lengths Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.Already a multiple graded stakes winner, the 3-year-old daughter of Tale of the C Stopchargingmaria earns win at Saratoga 07/21/2014 07:54am • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Stopchargingmaria took command approaching the stretch and drew off impressively to capture the Grade 1 $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks by five lengths Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.Already a multiple graded stakes winner, the 3-year-old daughter of Tale of the C Paris police wound thief with gold loot in Metro 07/20/2014 02:06pm • PARIS (AP) -- Police in the French capital say they shot and wounded a thief with about 100,000 euros ($135,000) in gold coins in a rare chase in the Paris Metro.The thief had stolen an estimated in gold coins Saturday afternoon from a shop after hitting the seller on the head with a crowbar.The thi Metroway buses will connect Alexandria and Arlington 07/18/2014 07:41am • ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Like a rail line rolling on rubber, a game changing bus service is coming to Northern Virginia. The Crystal City/Potomac Yard Transitway, featuring bold blue Metroway buses, is expected to begin service Aug 24. "We're really excited. This is the first regional transitway in d APNewsBreak: Shipwreck's gold inventory released 07/17/2014 10:10pm • AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) -- Deep-sea explorers recovered millions of dollars in gold and silver and a slew of personal items that are a virtual time capsule of the California Gold Rush, according to newly unsealed court documents obtained by The Associated Press that provide Bitcoin 'mining pool' promises to stay small 07/17/2014 05:30pm • PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The largest group of bitcoin miners, which maintains and processes transactions in the digital currency, is promising to avoid majority control of the currency as a temporary measure to maintain the payment system's credibility.Mining pool GHash.I 2 Utah ex-attorneys general charged with bribery 07/16/2014 10:04am • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As candidates for attorney general, Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow vowed to root out fraud and uphold the laws of Utah with the highest integrity. They served a combined 13 years as attorney general while holding significant political sway a Charges detailed for Utah ex-attorney generals 07/15/2014 09:19pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- After investigating for more than a year, authorities on Tuesday arrested two former Utah attorneys general on charges of bribery, misusing public funds and other counts. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill on Tuesday laid out allegations against John Swallow and Mark 2 ex-Utah attorneys general charged with bribery 07/15/2014 08:50pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two former Utah attorneys general are denying any wrongdoing after they were arrested on an array of bribery charges stemming from cozy relationships with several businessmen.Both John Swallow and Mart Shurtleff were released from jail after being arrested at their homes Tuesd 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