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Vibe of Graceland Too changes after owner's death 08/13/2014 10:25am • EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) -- The Elvis Presley-congested rooms of a north Mississippi roadside museum are missing their kinetic buzz since owner Paul MacLeod left the building.Dozens of people toured Graceland Too on Tuesday, hours after a private funeral for Ma

Police want woman charged in fake abduction 08/11/2014 01:34pm • ECORSE, Mich. (AP) -- Investigators who determined that an 18-year-old woman lied about being abducted and held for 16 hours in Michigan said Monday they plan to ask prosecutors to charge her.Police in the Detroit suburb of Ecorse, where the woman was found Friday, will send the case to the Wayne Co

Pappa, Pineda score, Sounders beat Dynamo 2-0 08/11/2014 03:10am • MARK MOSCHETTI Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- With one hard shot by Marco Pappa, a rare scoring drought became a thing of the past for the Seattle Sounders.Pappa scored in the 69th minute, Gonzalo Pineda converted a penalty kick just six minutes later, and Sigi Schmid picked up his 200th MLS coach

NFL dynasties disappeared; could Seahawks be one? 08/10/2014 09:46am • HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer The NFL does what it can via the draft, salary cap, free agency and, coming soon, expanded playoffs to engineer a sense of parity, making each team and each fan base believe it has a chance to win on any given Sunday -- and to reach any season's Super Bowl.Thos

Online suicides case back in lower court 08/08/2014 10:20pm • FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota prosecutors argued Friday that an ex-nurse should be convicted of assisting suicide for going online and urging two people to kill themselves, but a defense attorney said there's no evidence to prove that William Melchert-Dinkel's Internet chats led directly to the

Ga. Peanut plant chief: we faked salmonella tests 08/08/2014 05:19pm • RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia peanut plant manager testified Friday that his company had been shipping contaminated nuts with fake documents showing them to be salmonella-free before the plant was identified as the source of a nationwide outbreak that killed nine American

Collector who sold bogus wine gets 10-year term 08/07/2014 03:29pm • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A collector convicted of making bogus vintage wine in his California kitchen and selling it for millions of dollars was sentenced Thursday to a decade in prison by a judge who said he wanted to send a message to others who might tamper with what peo

Man fakes blindness to rob check-cashing store 08/05/2014 09:40pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police are looking for a man they say pretended to be blind in order to rob a check-cashing store.The Torrance Daily Breeze (http://bit.ly/WS7isT ) says video shows the man wearing dark glasses and walking with a white cane as he enters the store in Wilmington on July

Attorney general's photo used in dating scam 08/05/2014 07:50pm • LISA BAUMANN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A photo of Montana Attorney General Tim Fox was used in an online dating scam that cost an Indiana woman $150,000, state officials said Tuesday.The image of Fox, likely taken from a Facebook page he used mostly during his campaign, was used to crea

Tenn. man admits killing in-laws with lamp-bomb 08/05/2014 04:58pm • LUCAS L. JOHNSON II Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his mother- and father-in-law with a bomb disguised as a lamp to get out of repaying the couple a $40,000 debt.Richard Parker entered the plea Tuesday in Wilson County Criminal Court in a de

Ex-boss says longtime fugitive became a good man 08/05/2014 02:48pm • RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Before learning his friend was really Ronald Carnes, an armed robber who escaped from a North Carolina prison in 1973, Seattle businessman Carl Bryant knew him as Louie Vance, a trusted worker and confidant whom he had over for holidays and birt

CIA director reverses himself on Senate spying 08/04/2014 11:54pm • KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- For months, CIA Director John Brennan stood firm in his insistence that the CIA had little to be ashamed of after searching the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee. His defiant posture quickly collapsed after a devastating report by h

Afghan election audit restarts after holiday delay 08/03/2014 11:32am • RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An audit of results from Afghanistan's presidential runoff election resumed Sunday after a holiday break, an electoral official said.The audit of more than 8 million votes is likely to take weeks, stalling an already much-delayed announcement o

Rays' Zobrist slept through false trade report 08/01/2014 10:00pm • DICK SCANLON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Ben Zobist of the Tampa Bay Rays slept right through Thursday's rumor that he had been traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates."I was napping, to be honest," Zobrist said Friday of a fake tweet that had briefly turned into television news the previ