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Tattoos can be evidence of a crime _ or just cool 06/04/2014 05:20pm • DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Teardrops for murders. Spider webs for prison time. Penal code numbers for crimes committed.Criminals have long used tattoos as indelible ink on their own bodily rap sheet. And for just as long, police have used tattoos as a way to identify suspe Inside Arlington’s Hoarding Response Team 06/04/2014 11:30am • Reginald Lawson, Arlington Department of Human Services’ supervisor of Adult Protective Services, oversees the department’s handling of hoarding cases, and he has a favorite story he likes to tell from his work. “There was this person with some severe hoarding going on, and he had Florida beats Baylor, advances to title series 06/01/2014 07:32pm • CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Florida didn't dominate Baylor in the rematch, but the Gators' performance was good enough.Hannah Rogers pitched a complete game and helped Florida defeat Baylor 6-3 on Sunday to advance to the Women's College World Series national championship best Spain hunts back-to-back WCup titles in Brazil 05/30/2014 01:01pm • PAUL LOGOTHETIS Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Spain has a chance to become the first team to win back-to-back World Cup titles since Brazil in 1962, and what better place to do it than in the country that coined the phrase "Jogo Bonito" -- beautiful game.Four years after winning its first world ti Dish to become largest company to accept bitcoin 05/29/2014 08:40am • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dish Network Corp. says it will become the largest company yet to accept payment in bitcoin.The satellite TV company says it will begin accepting the digital coins through payment processor Coinbase by September. Coinbase will instantly convert the bitcoins into cash, eliminating California couple's buried gold coins go for sale 05/29/2014 07:52am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The man handling the sale of rare, 19th century gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog estimates they had fetched about $2 million as of noon on Wednesday.Don Kagin said about half of the 1,400 coins had sold. They were put up for sale the previous n California couple's buried gold coins go for sale 05/28/2014 03:10am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A treasure trove of rare gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog has gone on sale, with one coin selling for $15,000 on Tuesday.The coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at $11 million.Several coins were auctioned at the Old San Francisco Soccer helps some young Hondurans to avoid gangs 05/25/2014 11:30am • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- From where he sits on a dusty soccer pitch between the fetid Choluteca River and four-lane Armed Forces Boulevard, 11-year-old Maynor Ayala can see only two ways out of the gang-controlled slums of the capital: on a professional soccer team Soccer helps some young Hondurans to avoid gangs 05/25/2014 11:30am • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- From where he sits on a dusty soccer pitch between the fetid Choluteca River and four-lane Armed Forces Boulevard, 11-year-old Maynor Ayala can see only two ways out of the gang-controlled slums of the capital: on a professional soccer team Review: Surface works as laptop, has trade-offs 05/23/2014 01:08pm • ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- To appreciate Microsoft's latest tablet computer, you need to accept the notion that one device can do it all.The Surface Pro 3 works as a tablet when you want to watch video or read e-books. It works as a laptop when you need to get serious work Michael Sam saga apt to expand NFL's gay fan base 05/17/2014 12:11am • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Years before Michael Sam was born, gay-rights activists Kate Kendell and Paul Guequierre were already die-hard National Football League fans.Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, grew up in Ogden, Utah, far from any NFL Preakness predictions in race for the Triple Crown 05/16/2014 03:37pm • WASHINGTON -- Just up I-95 in Baltimore, the second leg of the race for the Triple Crown gets underway Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. Unlike the Kentucky Derby, which featured 21 horses racing for victory, the Preakness Stakes features just eight colts, one gelding and a filly. Kentucky Derb Gossage visits Mint to check out curved coin 05/13/2014 07:35pm • DENVER (AP) -- Goose Gossage was known for bringing the heat.This time, it was all about the curve.The Hall of Fame pitcher visited the Denver Mint on Tuesday to strike an uncirculated clad coin for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Program.The bowl-shaped currency is the result Australia aims to nearly halve budget deficit 05/13/2014 07:39am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's government said Tuesday it will nearly halve its fiscal deficit as part of a tough budget that includes tax hikes, less welfare and the layoff of more than 16,000 state employees.The financial blueprint for the fiscal year starting Dylan's obsessed fans comprise strange subculture 05/12/2014 02:48pm • JERRY HARKAVY Associated Press "The Dylanologists" (Simon & Schuster), by David KinneyA Bob Dylan obsession manifests itself in a variety of ways in "The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob."Dylan fans from around the world celebrate his May 24 birthday by converging on the northern Minneso