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Chapel of Love lost to fire that ravaged city in Smokies
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - The wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through Gatlinburg also stole an iconic venue from this city at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains whose nickname is “the wedd...
Dec 10, 2016
Italian president: We need a new government urgently
ROME - Italy’s president promised Saturday he’ll decide “in the next hours” about who to tap as the next premier, saying the country needs a new government as soon as possible ...
Dec 10, 2016
Russia accepts IOC plan to retest Olympic doping samples
MOSCOW - Russia will accept an International Olympic Committee plan to retest all drug test samples given by its athletes at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said...
Dec 10, 2016
Calgary's Brady Leman finishes second in ski cross race
VAL THORENS, France - Calgary’s Brady Leman finished second in Saturday’s men’s World Cup ski cross race. Leman, who finished third in the overall standings last season, ended up beh...
Dec 10, 2016
KKK, other racist groups disavow the white supremacist label
PELHAM, N.C. - In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carol...
Dec 10, 2016
Advocates call Alabama execution an 'avoidable disaster'
ATMORE, Ala. - Defenders of a condemned inmate in Alabama are calling his execution an “avoidable disaster,” but the state prison commissioner says there was no visible evidence that he su...
Dec 10, 2016
Northeast Ohio gas pipeline opponents vow to delay project
CLEVELAND - Northeast Ohio residents who have tried to get a natural gas pipeline moved away from their communities are vowing to engage in delay tactics after a federal agency dismissed their suggest...
Dec 10, 2016
Death toll in Yemen suicide bombing rises to 45
SANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 45 soldiers and wounding another 50, security officials said. They said the bomber...
Dec 10, 2016
Colombia's Santos accepts Nobel, urges shift in drug war
STOCKHOLM - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, saying it helped his country achieve the “impossible dream” of ending a half-century-long civ...
Dec 10, 2016
Downtrodden D.C.: In federal offices, tears and sadness about working for Trump
WASHINGTON - A funereal atmosphere has taken hold in government offices in the U.S. capital, where numerous federal employees describe mournful, even tearful, scenes among dejected co-workers commiser...
Dec 10, 2016