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The Clintons, the Democrats' 2014 super surrogates 10/22/2014 03:56pm • KEN THOMAS Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- Defending their allies, Bill and Hillary Clinton are barnstorming the country for Democrats struggling through a bleak campaign season in states where President Barack Obama is deeply unpopular.With speculation rampant about whether Hillary Rodham Cl No trick: Across US, Halloween bumped for football 10/22/2014 02:40pm • JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- When Halloween falls on a Friday in communities where high school football is king, it's time to reschedule the holiday.Communities from West Virginia to Texas are saying they're OK with celebrating Halloween on, well, not Halloween. Football is k UPDATED: Three 5K Races in Arlington Next Weekend 10/22/2014 10:30am • (Updated at 12:20 p.m.) Runners participating in 5K races next weekend will weave their way through opposite ends of the county. The Global Strides 5K sends runners into the streets surrounding Tuckahoe Elementary School next Saturday, November 1. The 5K begins at 8:00 a.m. and the 1 mile fun run For Rio, Paralympian Alana Nichols focus on kayak 10/22/2014 09:44am • PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) -- Paralympian Alana Nichols calls them "pinch-me moments," when she can't quite believe she is actually in a particular situation.Like when she rolled down the red carpet at the ESPY Awards or rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Or when she Mexican rights body alleges troops murdered 15 10/22/2014 07:25am • MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Soldiers killed as many as 15 people after they surrendered in an abandoned warehouse in southern Mexico last summer, according to a scathing National Human Rights Commission report that lays out allegations of threats, torture, fake autopsies and Leagues file to stop New Jersey sports betting 10/22/2014 07:22am • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The four major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA on Tuesday again urged a judge to stop the state from allowing legalized sports betting this weekend.An order to show cause was filed in federal court in Trenton. The NFL, the NBA, the NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA w For a young Mexican star, seeing helps him believe 10/22/2014 12:36am • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The road to the PGA Tour out of Mexico was never going to be easy for Carlos Ortiz, even if it was paved with a measure of privilege.Only five Mexican-born players had ever made it to the PGA Tour. Two of them won tournaments a generation before he was born, the most rec Photos: Halloween Decorations Around Arlington 10/21/2014 04:10pm • It wouldn’t be October if there weren’t some creepy creations crawling onto lawns around Arlington. We encountered residents who surrendered their yard to frightful grave-dwellers on N. Jackson Street, in Ashton Heights, and in two yards within a block of& McIlroy to skip 2 events to focus on lawsuit 10/21/2014 09:10am • DUBLIN (AP) -- Rory McIlroy said Monday that mediation in a lawsuit with his former management company has failed, and he will skip his next two tournaments in China because he needs time to prepare for the trial.McIlroy will not play the BMW Masters, which starts Oct. 30 at Lake Malaren, or the fol Suspect in Va. abduction charged in DC area rape 10/21/2014 04:36am • More on the investigation into Hannah Graham's disappearance in WTOP's Live Blog. MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- The suspect in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student was charged Monday with abducting and raping a woman in suburban Washington, D.C., in 2005 Once in million years: Comet buzzing Mars on Sun. 10/20/2014 02:56pm • MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The heavens are hosting an event this weekend that occurs once in a million years or so.A comet as hefty as a small mountain will pass mind-bogglingly close to Mars on Sunday, approaching within 87,000 miles at a speed of 126,000 mph.NASA' Nigerians await news on missing girls 10/20/2014 02:50pm • CHIKA ODUAH Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- There is cautious optimism in Nigeria Monday over local reports that the more than 200 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls may soon be released soon as part of a cease-fire agreement with the country's Islamic rebels, Boko Haram.However, Nigeria's federa New England raking in millions from leaf peepers 10/20/2014 08:53am • TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- On Mount Monadnock, hikers file up the 3,165-foot peak in lockstep, protected from drizzling rain by a luminous golden canopy of leaves. They're not just gazing at foliage -- they're looking at cold, hard cash.Money really does grow on trees Students clean up after mayhem near pumpkin fest 10/20/2014 08:49am • HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Keene State College students quickly cleaned up from a chaotic weekend on Sunday after violent parties near the city's annual pumpkin festival led to destruction, dozens of arrests and multiple injuries.The parties around the school coincided with t Denkinger's miss revisited as Series returns to KC 10/20/2014 03:58am • BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Of course Don Denkinger plans to watch the World Series. He always does. He'll tune in to root for the umpires, check out familiar faces on the Giants and Royals, and see how Kansas City is looking these days.Chances are he'll see himself, too."