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Staff to be removed during probe at LA school

4:00 AM, Feb 7, 2012

The Los Angeles school superintendent says the entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates

By Maxine Park, USA TODAY Peter Kenney tries to touch Dr. Paul Rosenbergs finger during a physical and memory exam at Johns Hopkins

Obama to seek more Alzheimer's research money

3:58 AM, Feb 7, 2012

The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year

Long-awaited ruling on CA gay marriage ban due

3:56 AM, Feb 7, 2012

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plans to issue its long-awaited opinion

File video: 40 states agree to foreclosure deal

More than 40 states agree to foreclosure deal

10:26 PM, Feb 6, 2012

More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses.

Two Central Florida CVS stores and drug wholesaler Cardinal Health are at the center of a federal investigation.

2 Florida CVS stores under investigation for painkiller distribution

9:51 PM, Feb 6, 2012

Two Central Florida CVS stores and drug wholesaler Cardinal Health are at the center of a federal investigation.

A woman in California said her fathers ashes got lost in the mail on their way to her brother.

Ashes of man get lost in the mail, eventually returned

9:37 PM, Feb 6, 2012

A woman in California said her father's ashes got lost in the mail on their way to her brother.

Students, teachers and the community are mourning the loss of a school teacher near Chicago.

Community mourns the loss of murdered teacher

9:18 PM, Feb 6, 2012

Students, teachers and the community are mourning the loss of a school teacher near Chicago.

McDonalds pulls ad after pit bull owner outrage

8:35 PM, Feb 6, 2012

McDonald's apologized and pulled an ad that came back to bite them.

Powell house explosion investigation

Utah chief: Police hope to interview Powell's dad

8:33 PM, Feb 6, 2012

The police chief heading the investigation into missing Utah mother Susan Powell's disappearance says the case will remain open, and detectives hope to interview the father of her now-dead husband.

Calif. seafood company fined $1M for fishy labels

8:29 PM, Feb 6, 2012

Federal prosecutors say a Torrance, Calif.-based seafood corporation has been ordered to pay $1 million in fines and community service donations for falsely labeling frozen catfish fillets as grouper.

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Mo. authorities ID body found after vehicle fires

8:19 PM, Feb 6, 2012

Platte City authorities have released the name of a man who died after setting fire to several vehicles.

Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on the throne

7:49 PM, Feb 6, 2012

The Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was up a tree in Kenya gazing at the wildlife below when her father, King George VI, died in London on Feb. 6, 1952. At that moment, 60 years ago today, she was queen of the United Kingdom, at age 25. Only she didn't know it yet.

Naketa Leibas family last heard from her during an interrupted phone call.

Interrupted phone call last communication with missing teen

2:09 PM, Feb 6, 2012

The search for a 17-year-old girl from Miramar, Florida who went missing last Wednesday afternoon continues.

Two cruise ships with a norovirus outbreak were forced to return to port.

Norovirus outbreak forces cruise ships to return

1:13 PM, Feb 6, 2012

The second of two cruise ships struck with a norovirus outbreak arrived in Port Everglades Sunday morning with many passengers desperate to get back to their normal lives after a vacation gone awry.

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US levies new sanctions on Iran's Central Bank

1:12 PM, Feb 6, 2012

President Barack Obama is ordering new U.S. sanctions on the government of Iran, including the Central Bank.