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In this photo provided by NASA, guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center view the launch of space shuttle Atlantis in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began the 11-day STS-129 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space. (AP Photo/NASA)
By MARCIA DUNN

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station.

Atlantis will do a pirouette for the station cameras late Wednesday morning, for a final check to make sure...

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the...

SPIN METER: Feds buy green cars, auction rejects

If you missed out on Washington's cash incentive program to trade in your old clunker, Uncle Sam still has a deal for you: The government will sell you rejects from its own fleet, even as it...

PROMISES, PROMISES: 6 years and still no rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after the 9/11 attacks brought a new focus on security at airplane maintenance facilities — and six years after Congress first required action — the...

Shuttle nears space station, docking scheduled

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station.

Atlantis will do a pirouette for the station cameras late...

Intrawest selling Colo.'s Copper Mountain to Powdr

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) — Intrawest ULC has agreed to sell its Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado to Powdr Corp.

Intrawest, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, said Tuesday...

White House: Israeli housing plans dismaying

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House rebuked Israel with heavy criticism Tuesday after the Jerusalem city government moved toward the construction of 900 additional...

IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of...

Trump, bondholders reach deal over 3 NJ casinos

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump ended his war with bondholders of the casino company that bears his name, settling Tuesday for 10 percent of Trump Entertainment Resorts...

Honolulu mayor inks labor pact for rail project

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and 12 local labor unions have inked an agreement that will pay union workers prevailing wages to build Honolulu's rail transit project while...

Goldman Sachs, Buffett to help small businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands of small business owners...

Obituaries in the news

Ed Czekaj

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Va. inmate who killed 2 executed by electric chair

JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by...

Study: New device boosts heart failure survival

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe...

Soros hedge fund takes stake in Ford Motor

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Soros Fund Management LLC, the hedge fund run by billionaire investor George Soros, increased its holdings in U.S. stocks to $6.2 billion from $4.2 billion and bought...

Democrats promise jobs bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their...

Kan. gov.: Lawsuit threat not being considered

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' governor said Tuesday that the threat of a lawsuit over education funding won't influence the spending cuts he'll make to keep the current state budget in...

AP lays off employees to hit cost-cutting goal

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlong plan to cut worldwide payroll expenses by 10...

AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem

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The people spoke on...

Okla. ed board wants use of Rainy Day Fund now

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Cuts in state funding for education mean teachers at one northeastern Oklahoma school now must clean their own classrooms while their superintendent scrubs the...

Alaskans eager for Sarah Palin book release

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Fans in Sarah Palin's home state turned out as early as possible Tuesday to snap up copies of her highly anticipated memoir.

Curiosity drove Natalie...

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BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama's first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to...

Probe continues in Chicago BOE president's death

CHICAGO (AP) — Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide...

Concur posts higher 4Q profit, revenue

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Concur Technologies Inc., which makes corporate expense-management software, said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose as revenue got a boost from a 13...