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54-year-old who walked out of mental hospital last week was returned to facility

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police captured a man on Friday who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.


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There's also an immediate $350 billion for job-creating measures, about $100 billion less than presented in Obama's September jobs plan

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet agency budgets, the White House said Friday.


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Supervisor says father told son he had \"surprise" in store, then began horrific murder

SEATTLE (AP) -- Josh Powell told his 7-year-old son he had a "surprise" for him moments before attacking and killing him and his 5-year-old brother, according to the state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Powell and his sons.


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Practice could eventually be used to assist Alzheimer's patients retain information

NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories.


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Zuckerberg's base salary is a relatively low $500,000 but stock options could add millions

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.


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District settled with Mark Berndt for $40,000 after removing him last winter

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.


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Most salient thing about the new offerings from Netflix and Hulu is just how \"TV" they are

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.


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State, which already had its own assessment system in place, a good example of reform challenges

MIAMI (AP) -- By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary is a top performing school in Miami: It has consistently been rated an `A' by the state, and students have achieved high scores on Florida's standardized math and reading exams.


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Abrupt shift is an attempt to end what was becoming election-year nightmare

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones directly responsible for providing free contraception.


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Video posted online last month shows 19-year-old being kicked, punched while on ground unarmed

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man shown on video being kicked and punched by four New York City police officers says he's suffered from constant headaches and nightmares since then.


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