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• Winners of the 79th National Headliner Awards May 23, 2013
  The winners of the 79th annual National Headliner Awards, sponsored by The Press Club of Atlantic City, N.J., have been announced.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Lost Australian cruise ship passenger remembered May 23, 2013
  SYDNEY (AP) — One of two Australians who plunged from a cruise ship in mysterious circumstances two weeks ago was remembered on Thursday as a hero who died attempting to rescue his girlfriend. Officials have been tight-lipped about why Paul Rossington, 30, and his 26-year-old girlfriend Kristen Schroder plummeted more than 20 meters (65 feet) from their cabi […]
• Syria opposition welcomes support for Assad ouster May 23, 2013
  BEIRUT (AP) — A spokesman says Syria's main opposition bloc welcomes renewed calls by its foreign supporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad give up power at the start of any political transition aimed at ending the country's civil war. The Syrian National Coalition is meeting for three days in Istanbul, starting Thursday, to lay out conditions […]
• Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan May 23, 2013
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came the same day as fighting in the restive northwest left 4 soldiers […]
• Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage May 23, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood. Real Bronx Tours, which took mostly European tourists from Manhattan to see life in the South Bronx "from a safe distance," issued a statement this week saying it w […]
• For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot May 23, 2013
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot. Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment May 23, 2013
  GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. About 1,400 voting members of BSA's national council are to cast ballots Thursday o […]
• Ohio rape investigation grand jury resumes work May 23, 2013
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An eastern Ohio grand jury examining whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players prepared to resume work Thursday after a three-week break. One of the key issues before the panel in Steubenville is whether adults like coaches or school administrators knew of the rape allegat […]
• With Weiner, NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic May 23, 2013
  NEW YORK (AP) — However Anthony Weiner does when the polls close, he's certain to add drama to the most competitive New York City mayor's race in more than a decade. As the scandal-lashed former congressman got ready for a first round of campaign events Thursday, his arrival in the race was being met with a mix of polite greetings, blowback and bri […]
• Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin May 23, 2013
  MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field. Read more on NewsOK.com […]