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News Summary: Push on to protect grid from floods

News Summary: Push on to protect grid from floods

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 6:13 pm

Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs in a scene from "Two Broke Girls" (CBS)

The worst shows on network television

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

Kansas House will retain 3 key committee leaders

Kansas House will retain 3 key committee leaders

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

NY to seek nonprofit political spending reports

NY to seek nonprofit political spending reports

Associated Press, Michael Virtanen · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

FILE - This Sept. 27, 2012 file photo shows Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaking in Sayreville, N.J. Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender who has now been arrested by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents to wait weeks and not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Senate intern, a sex offender, faces deportation

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

Nikki Haley: Jim DeMint’s replacement must be a fighter

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

This image released by ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8, shows Joe Allbritton, founder of Allbrittion Communications. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men by building media and banking empires, died at the age of 87, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at a hospital in Houston, where he lived. Allbritton's fortune was self-made, beginning with real estate trades and banking investments. By age 33, he was a millionaire.-His holdings include eight television stations, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington whose call letters bear his initials. He owned the Washington Star for several years and his son founded Politico. (AP Photo/ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8)

Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant, dies

Associated Press · December 12, 2012 5:00 am

Bruno Mars pushes ahead with sophomore album

Associated Press · December 11, 2012 5:00 am

‘Two Graves’ is exceptional thriller

‘Two Graves’ is exceptional thriller

Associated Press · December 11, 2012 5:00 am

Merck Foundation stops giving to Boy Scouts

Merck Foundation stops giving to Boy Scouts

Associated Press · December 10, 2012 6:16 pm

Former President George H.W. Bush, center, with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, right, visiting in Houston earlier this year. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

No timeline for ex-President George H.W. Bush leaving hospital

Associated Press · December 8, 2012 5:00 am

(Photo by Whitney Curtis/Getty Images)

GOP Senate group aided Todd Akin despite disavowal

Associated Press · December 8, 2012 5:00 am