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Rep. Ruppersberger to tour cybersecurity companies 09/15/2014 03:20am • BALTIMORE (AP) -- Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger will be touring Baltimore cybersecurity businesses.Ruppersberger, a Maryland Democrat, will tour Maddrix on Monday. It's one of only seven companies nationwide that is accredited by the National Security Agency to respond to cyber attacks on federal da Santa Monica using $1M to evaluate its happiness 09/15/2014 01:32am • JOHN ROGERS Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- As Eileen Brown and her dog stand on a bluff at Santa Monica's Palisades Park and survey endless miles of sparkling blue ocean, clear skies and shimmering sandy beaches, she ponders how life could possibly get any better in this corner of par Slow Money invests in small food enterprises 09/14/2014 01:04pm • LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Consumers who want to support local food and farms aren't limited anymore to buying locally produced veggies, meats and cheeses. They can make direct investments big or small into local food businesses through a national movement called Slow Money Chinese protesters march against trash incinerator 09/14/2014 02:00am • LOUISE WATT Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- Residents in a southern Chinese town protested for a second day Sunday against a proposed garbage incinerator, according to witnesses, as police said ringleaders of the earlier demonstrations involving thousands that saw clashes with police should surrend Man wins fight to get same-sex union recognized 09/13/2014 05:20am • JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- In a ruling that calls into question Arizona's gay marriage ban, a judge handed a victory Friday to a gay man who lost his spouse to cancer last month and was denied death benefits because the state prohibits same-sex unions.U.S. District Judge John Questions, answers about Arizona gay marriage case 09/12/2014 07:40pm • JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- U.S. District Judge John Sedwick quickly handed a victory Friday to a gay man who lost his spouse to cancer last month and was denied death benefits because Arizona does not recognize same-sex marriage. Sedwick said that Fred McQuire should be grante Obama's counter-terror fight faces high risk 09/12/2014 03:38pm • ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's decision to expand airstrikes in Iraq and extend them to Syria raises a host of questions about how an intensified military campaign can achieve his goal of destroying the Islamic State group.A look at how the presi First German governor from ex-communist party? 09/12/2014 11:06am • GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A quarter-century after the Berlin Wall crumbled, an election this weekend may show whether Germany is ready for its first state governor from the party descended from East Germany's communist rulers.The opposition Left Party hopes to end the 24-year grip US budget deficit dips to $128.7 billion in August 09/12/2014 10:50am • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government ran a lower budget deficit this August than a year ago, remaining on track to record the lowest deficit for the entire year since 2008.The August deficit was $128.7 billion, down 13 percent from the $147.9 billion defici 4 Reasons to Save in a Roth 401(k) 09/12/2014 12:00am • Employers are increasingly offering a Roth 401(k) option in their retirement plan. Half of employers now provide employees with a Roth 401(k) plan, up significantly from 11 percent in 2007, according to an Aon Hewitt survey. Employees at these firms get to choose whether to pay tax on their retireme Captured fugitive returns to NC after 1973 escape 09/11/2014 08:00pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A fugitive captured in Iowa after decades on the run is returning to North Carolina, where he escaped from prison in 1973.North Carolina officers were transporting 69-year-old Ronald Carnes from a county jail in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to a prison in Raleigh. They were scheduled FBI: 2013 attack on power grid easy to execute 09/11/2014 05:20pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An attack last year on Silicon Valley's power grid appears to have involved only one shooter and did not require access to technology or a high degree of training, an FBI official said.John Lightfoot, who manages the FBI's counterterrorism efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area, War gives inspiration to Gaza's artists 09/11/2014 12:52pm • HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen's latest work was already complexly layered -- a movie within a movie about a director and screenwriter producing a film about an honor killing in the Gaza Strip.Then the latest Gaza war burst in to add Islamic State group not an unstoppable juggernaut 09/11/2014 03:42am • ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- The Islamic State group is often described as the most fearsome jihadi outfit of all: a global menace outweighing al-Qaida, with armies trembling before its advance.But while the group has been successful at seizing parts of Iraq and Syria, it is no unstop Richmond-area car shop owner pleads guilty 09/11/2014 03:40am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The owner of a luxury car repair shop in suburban Richmond has pleaded guilty to failing to send employees' tax payments to the government.The office of U.S. Attorney Dana Boente (BEN'-tay) says 58-year-old Richard A. Long of Midlothian entered his plea in federal court Wednesd