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  • States wrestle with developing, restricting drones

    BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) — Law enforcement, government agencies and others are itching to use drones for everything from finding lost hikers to tracking shifting wildfires. But privacy watchdogs are urging state legislatures to step in and head off any potential privacy violations.

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  • Senators rally behind military sexual assault bill

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators rallied behind significant changes in military law to curb rape and sexual assault within the ranks, approving steps to protect the victims and barring the "good soldier defense" to ensure evidence alone determines a defendant's fate.

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  • Dallas Seavey wins his second Iditarod dog race

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  • Peverley falls ill, Stars-Blue Jackets called off

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  • Defense faces deadline in Army general sex case

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  • AP PHOTOS: Afghan women boxers eye 2016 Olympics

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  • Pistorius friend identified in gunplay testifies

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The friend of Oscar Pistorius who was identified by witnesses as being with the athlete on two occasions when a gun was shot in public is testifying at Pistorius' murder trial on Tuesday.

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  • Ukraine seeks national guard, call-up of reserves

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president on Tuesday called for the formation of a national guard and for the mobilization of reserves and volunteers into the country's armed forces to counter Russian military moves.

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  • Oscar Pistorius trial: Pathologist takes the stand

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  • 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71

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  • Russia preparing counterproposals over Ukraine

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Monday it is drafting counterproposals to a U.S. plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis, denouncing the new Western-backed government as an unacceptable "fait accompli" and claiming that Russian-leaning parts of the country have been plunged into lawlessness.

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  • 'Burger King baby' seeks birth mom on Facebook

    In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of thousands of people are trying to help.

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  • Attorney general urges first responders to carry heroin overdose drug

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent and growing public health crisis" and said first responders should carry with them a drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose.

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  • Colorado reports $2 million marijuana sales tax windfall

    Report on January sales taxes is world's first accounting of the recreational pot business.

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