BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Saints, coach Sean Payton agree to terms on deal

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Saints, coach Sean Payton agree to terms on deal

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Saints and suspended coach Sean Payton will indeed be together again next season as the bounty scandal fades into history and the bid to win a second Super Bowl resumes. Payton has agreed in principle to a multiyear contract extension, team spokesman Greg Bensel confirmed. "Very happy it is official," quarterback Drew Brees said in an email to the AP. "Never had ...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: AP source: Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

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AP source: Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U....

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BULLETIN: Gun-owner database draws criticism

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Obama nominates Kerry for secretary of state

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Obama nominates Kerry for secretary of state

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Sen. John Kerry as his next secretary of state, elevating the longtime lawmaker and foreign policy expert to the top diplomatic job he had coveted. "He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training," Obama said, standing alongside Kerry at the White House. "Few individuals know as many presidents and prime ministers or grasp our poli...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

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NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." The National Rifle Association broke its silence on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy wi...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: AP poll: Mass shootings voted top 2012 news story

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AP poll: Mass shootings voted top 2012 news story

NEW YORK (AP) - The horrific massacre of 26 children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school, along with other mass shootings, was the top news story of 2012, narrowly edging out the U.S. election, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The results followed a rare decision by the AP to re-conduct the voting. The initial round of balloting had ended ...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

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Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an established image was shattered by a fall from grace. Whitney Houston ruled as a queen of pop music, but years of hard living harmed her voice while...

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STORY: The Scariest Thing About the Newspaper Business Isn't Print's Decline, It's Digital's Growth - Atlantic Mobile

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Newsman's disappearance largely kept secret

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Newsman's disappearance largely kept secret

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC was able to keep the abduction of chief Middle East correspondent Richard Engel in Syria largely a secret until he escaped late Monday because it persuaded some of this country's most prominent news organizations to hold back on the story. Otherwise, the disappearance of Engel - probably the most high-profile international television reporter on a U.S. network - would have been...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: 10 Things to Know for Tuesday

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10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Tuesday: 1. MOURNERS GATHER FOR LITTLEST VICTIMS OF SHOOTING RAMPAGE "The message was: You're secure now. The worst is over," says a woman who attended one of Monday's services in Newtown, Conn. 2. TIDE RISING FOR TIGHTER GUN LAWS It remains to be seen whether Obama and Congress will turn their rhetoric in...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: 115-year-old woman dies, was world's oldest person

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115-year-old woman dies, was world's oldest person

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A 115-year-old Iowa woman's granddaughter says the woman has died less than two weeks after inheriting the title of world's oldest person. Dina Manfredini's granddaughter Lori Logli says Manfredini died Monday morning. Logli wouldn't elaborate on her grandmother's cause of death. Manfredini lived at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston. Guinness World Records conf...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Conn. gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammunition

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Conn. gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammunition

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse. Hours later, President Barack Obama told mourners at a vigil that the ...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: GOP official: SC Gov Haley to tap Scott for Senate

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GOP official: SC Gov Haley to tap Scott for Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate, a move that will make him the first African-American senator in the state's history, a Republican official said Monday. Haley was expected to make the formal announcement at a noon news conference in Columbia, S.C., with other members of the state's congressional delegation in attendanc...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Obama offers 'love, prayers of nation' to Newtown

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Obama offers 'love, prayers of nation' to Newtown

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - A mournful President Barack Obama said Sunday that the nation is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary-school massacre left 20 children dead. "What choice do we have?" Obama said. "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?" In a vigil for the fallen, in a mome...

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BULLETIN: Scott to be SC's first black senator

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Deer get onto racetrack, announcer plays along

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Deer get onto racetrack, announcer plays along

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - Spectators who came to watch horses at a western Pennsylvania racetrack got a surprise this week when three deer got onto the course first and beat the horses to racing. According to KDKA-TV (http://cbsloc.al/VdzJuq ), a race was about to begin Wednesday night at the Meadows Racetrack in Washington County when the deer jumped onto the track. Race announcer Roger Huston didn'...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Police: Chiefs' Belcher kills girlfriend, self

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Police: Chiefs' Belcher kills girlfriend, self

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - It began like any other Saturday for the Kansas City Chiefs during the NFL season, their general manager and coach at work early to put final touches on this weekend's gameplan. Then they got a call to hurry to the parking lot. The two men rushed through the glass doors of Chiefs headquarters and came face-to-face with linebacker Jovan Belcher, holding a handgun to his head...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Chiefs owner Hunt: 'So many people are hurting'

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Chiefs owner Hunt: 'So many people are hurting'

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered sympathy Sunday to the families affected by the murder-suicide involving one of his players, calling it "an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family." Hunt spoke to The Associated Press on the field before the Chiefs' game against the Carolina Panthers. He said the Chiefs consulted with the league about whether to play the game as sche...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Clown at NYC parade collapses and dies

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Clown at NYC parade collapses and dies

NEW YORK (AP) - A clown suffered a fatal collapse in front of spectators at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan. Sixty-seven-year-old Robert Blasetti went into cardiac arrest as he made balloon animals at Sixth Avenue and West 39th Street on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Spokesman Orlando Veras said Macy's was "saddened to report" that a parade marcher had suffered a ...

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BULLETIN: AP Mobile: 'Dallas' star Larry Hagman dies in Texas

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'Dallas' star Larry Hagman dies in Texas

J.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron - and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings - on television's long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, "Dallas." Although he first gained fame as nice guy Capt. Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC co...

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