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Rosa Parks statue set to be unveiled at Capitol

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 6:49am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family....

Rosa Parks statue set to be unveiled at Capitol

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 6:49am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family....

Rosa Parks statue set to be unveiled at Capitol

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 6:49am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family....

Report: Spending cuts could force runway closures

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 6:44am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air traffic controllers are warning that automatic spending cuts could force some of the nation's busiest airports to close runways, causing widespread flight delays and cancellations....

Anti-gun Democrat shoo-in to replace Jackson Jr.

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 6:19am
CHICAGO (AP) -- The newly elected Democratic nominee to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. vowed to become a leader in the fight for federal gun control and directly challenged the National Rifle Association in her victory speech....

Phila. school lunches: Goodbye fries, hello fennel

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 4:06am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding....

Phila. school lunches: Goodbye fries, hello fennel

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 4:06am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding....

Phila. school lunches: Goodbye fries, hello fennel

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 4:06am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding....

Phila. school lunches: Goodbye fries, hello fennel

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 4:06am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding....

Oil spill trial: BP executive to resume testimony

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 4:03am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first BP executive to testify at a federal trial over the nation's worst oil spill was to take the stand for a second day Wednesday before a judge tasked with deciding whether the London-based oil giant and other companies acted with gross negligence for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....

Senate panel hearing from Newtown father, doctor

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 3:32am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Neil Heslin says it's all about his slain son, Jesse....

2 police officers killed in Calif.; suspect dead

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 3:21am
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Two police detectives were fatally shot when they tried to question a man over a report of a sexual assault, and the man later died after a brief chase, authorities said....

Rosa Parks statue set to be unveiled at Capitol

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 2:54am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family....