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Poll: Economy, health care eclipse social issues 10/31/2014 07:40pm • NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- As a season of campaigning enters its intense final weekend, a new Associated Press-GfK poll illustrates the challenge ahead for candidates and their allies trying to rally voters around traditional wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Thi 3 California counties voting on fracking bans 10/31/2014 07:30pm • ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Voters in three coastal California counties vote Tuesday on whether to ban fracking and other intensive oil production, even as slumping prices globally are leading companies to start to scale back on production.Chevron, ExxonMobil and other oi No. 25 UCLA sees must-win game vs No. 14 Arizona 10/31/2014 06:36pm • GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- With No. 25 UCLA's season getting grimmer by the week, Brett Hundley and coach Jim Mora just couldn't bring themselves to embrace the usual football clichés about No. 14 Arizona's visit to the Rose Bowl.The Bruins (6-2, 3-2 Pac-12) need a break AP National News Calendar 10/31/2014 06:30pm • The Associated Press Eds: Major scheduled events for the week of Nov. 2-8. Note that many events are subject to change at the last minute.The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT), unless otherwise noted:SUNDAY: No events of note.MONDAY: Institute for Supply Manag AP National News Calendar 10/31/2014 05:57pm • The Associated Press Eds: Major scheduled events for the week of Nov. 2-8. Note that many events are subject to change at the last minute.The following economic reports will be issued in Washington (all times EDT), unless otherwise noted:SUNDAY: No events of note.MONDAY: Institute for Supply Manag Pathologist: Wife was given fatal dose of cyanide 10/31/2014 05:10pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- An autopsy pathologist testified Friday that the wife of a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher was given a fatal dose of cyanide, though he can't determine how or by whom.Dr. Todd Luckasevic's testimony came as Allegheny County prosecutors were Review: CBS streaming not worth cutting cord, yet 10/31/2014 03:36pm • ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- I dropped my cable TV service more than a year ago and have been relying on Netflix, Hulu and other services to fill my television needs. But I get my shows at least a day late. With CBS' new All Access streaming service, I can watch shows right w Business events scheduled for the coming month 10/31/2014 03:08pm • The Associated Press All times are EasternMONDAY, Nov. 3WASHINGTON -- Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for October, 10 a.m.; Commerce Department releases construction spending for September, 10 a.m.DETROIT -- Automakers release vehicle sales for October.TUESDAY, Nov. From food trucks to flower marts, how Prince George's will kick-start New Carrollton 10/31/2014 01:54pm • New Carrollton is Prince George's busiest Metro station, among its most active development areas, and a source of wealth — 71 percent of commuters there earn more than $50,000 a year. Yet, it is largely a dead zone. On Friday, Victor Hoskins, the county's deputy chief administrative officer fo Pirate Bay founder jailed for hacking Danish data 10/31/2014 10:10am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Danish court on Friday sentenced the Swedish founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay to 3½ years in prison after he was found guilty of hacking into a private company handling sensitive information for Danish authorities.Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and a 21-year-old Da Hungary suspends Internet tax after huge protests 10/31/2014 09:29am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Following large-scale protests, Hungary's prime minister said Friday that the government would suspend a planned tax on Internet use and reconsider the matter next year.A scheme to make Internet service providers pay 150 forints ($0.62) per gigabyte of Internet traffic, lat 2 boys sue govt, Malaysia Airlines over Flight 370 10/31/2014 07:52am • EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Two Malaysian children sued Malaysia Airlines and the government on Friday over the loss of their father on Flight 370, the first lawsuit filed in the country by relatives of those aboard the jetliner that mysteriously disappeared eight month Top 25 celebrates 20th anniversary as writers poll 10/31/2014 03:38am • DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer This season marks the 20th anniversary of the AP women's basketball Top 25 poll's shift to voting by writers and broadcasters.Before the 1994-95 season, the poll was determined by coaches and compiled by Mel Greenberg, who started it in 1976.Here's a look at some o Survey: Asia finds money brings happiness 10/30/2014 09:14pm • CHRIS BRUMMITT Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) -- Emerging Asian nations are finding out what developed ones did years ago: Money -- and the stuff it buys -- brings happiness, or at least satisfaction.Levels of self-reported well-being in fast-growing nations like Indonesia, China and Malaysia now r AP asks for accounting of fake FBI news stories 10/30/2014 08:10pm • GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy and The Associated Press sent separate letters to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday expressing concerns that the FBI faked an AP story to catch a bomb threat suspect in 2007. The AP also asked the Justi