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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:57pm

(AP) — The man suspected of kidnapping a still-missing 15-year-old Iowa girl and her friend as they walked home from school is being scrutinized in last year's unsolved kidnapping of two young cousins whose bodies were found 100 miles away.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:56pm

(AP) — One loved the spotlight. Another was nicknamed "The Wall" because of the force he brought to the soccer field.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:49pm

(AP) — Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:49pm

(AP) — When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:47pm

(AP) — Some of the country's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Macy's Inc., are suing MasterCard and Visa, rejecting a settlement over alleged fee-fixing.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:47pm

(AP) — A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:46pm

(AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde faced hours of questioning at a special Paris court Thursday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:45pm

(AP) — Wrestling's governing body has "reacted well" and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:44pm

(AP) — A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:43pm

(AP) — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday on whether to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:40pm

(AP) — A Virginia man who was once one of the nation's most prominent swimming coaches has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:39pm

(AP) — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the Republican-led House approved legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:37pm

(AP) — An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:36pm

(AP) — An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday — she lost.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:33pm

(AP) — President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:32pm

(AP) — Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:32pm

(AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday called "surreal" the judicial reasoning behind an appellate court's decision to uphold his guilty verdict and four-year jail term in a tax fraud case.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:28pm

(AP) — An afternoon recovery in U.S. stock markets helped oil reverse early losses Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:27pm

(AP) — One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 3:24pm

(AP) — A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Marley, the world premiere of William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" by the innovative Fiasco Theater company and an Australian take on "Peter Pan" are among next season's offerings at The New Victory Theater.