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To gain the acquiescence of conservative religious groups that sponsor many dens and troops, like the Mormon and Roman Catholic churches, the policy will allow church-run units to pick leaders who agree with their moral precepts. Conservative partners saw the policy as a bulwark against unwanted social change, but the Boy Scouts’ antigay stance was costing it public support and cachet as well as corporate funders, and lately has brought on the threat of costly lawsuits. On Monday, the Scouts will... Читать дальше...

San Jose police are looking for the person who shot and killed an unidentified person on a residential street a mile east of downtown, police said. Two suspects in a light-colored compact car drove to the 1300 block of Sunbeam Circle shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. The victim “has not been positively identified,” a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County coroner’s office said.

At about 5:20 a.m. Sunday, CHP dispatch received reports of a stopped black Honda in the No. 1 lane of northbound 101 between Oyster Point and Sierra Point. Minutes later, authorities received reports of a body across the median in the southbound lane of 101. CHP spokesman Officer Dan Russo said the body, pronounced dead at the scene, belonged to the man who exited his vehicle, but it is not clear whether he was hit in the northbound lane or walked over to the southbound lane. Officers closed the southbound 101 lanes in the area from 5:25 a.

WASHINGTON — The president of Planned Parenthood said her group’s clinics never adjust the abortion procedure to better preserve fetal organs for medical research and that the charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers. Planned Parenthood has come under congressional scrutiny after the release of two stealthily recorded videos that showed officials discussing how they provide aborted fetal organs for research. A group called the Center for Medical Progress released two videos secretly... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT — In his first public address in a year, embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Sunday to win his country’s long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops had lost territory because of a shortage of manpower. Assad’s speech, while confident, came in the fifth year of a conflict pitting his forces against rebels, Islamist insurgents and the extremist Islamic State group. Turkey, which has long backed the rebels, has begun striking the Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters battling the extremists... Читать дальше...

TOKYO — A small plane crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo on Sunday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a woman on the ground, while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials said. The single-engine propeller plane plowed into and set ablaze a row of houses just minutes after taking off from an airport used by small aircraft in Tokyo’s western suburb of Chofu. Television footage showed a mangled plane, broken up with its tail upside down, resting on a crushed car in a residential... Читать дальше...

Nori back at leadoff? Nori Aoki was flying from Albuquerque to San Francisco to rejoin the Giants on Sunday with the expectation he would be activated Monday night, assuming his leg is fine. A 2-for-3 game for Triple-A Sacramento that included an infield hit helped persuade the Giants that Aoki was ready. Bochy is running into conflicting desires: returning Aoki to leadoff, where he was a great catalyst when healthy versus Bochy longstanding reticence to change the lineup wen the team is winning. Читать дальше...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A University of New Hampshire School of Law professor is being honored by the bar association as the director of a program that allows scholars to skip the two-day bar exam through hands-on practice of law before they graduate. Attorney John Garvey, director of the law school's Daniel Webster Scholars Honors Program, is receiving the New Hampshire Bar Association's 2015 Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession Award.

Ackley tells WCAU-TV (http://bit.ly/1KsB6Ta) he's been doing chain saw carvings for 15 years, creating statues and other "artsy stuff" out of stumps and toppled trees. The theft came just days before Ackley is due to head out on his annual "carving tour" of state and county fairs on the East Coast.

Members of his party have started lining up to support the pact as the Obama administration works to sell it to lawmakers. Republican critics told Kerry last week they think the U.S. failed to insist on enough restraints on Iran's nuclear program before agreeing to lift economic sanctions. Obama has promised to veto any effort to block the deal from taking effect, and the administration is looking for enough votes to keep Republicans from overriding a veto.

(AP) — Virtual school opportunities for Kansas students blending traditional classroom learning with online classes could nearly vanish in a couple of years. State aid to districts where some students take all their classes through a virtual school or program will climb next school year and rise still higher the following year. Jessica Noble, education program consultant in the Kansas State Department of Education, of the funding levels written into legislation this year, told The Hutchinson News... Читать дальше...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Sigma Alpha Epsilon's chapter at the University of Richmond has been indefinitely suspended for violating the school's policies. The private university tells media outlets that the fraternity also violated the school's risk management procedures. The suspension was effective Saturday. The university says there were repeated violations but it didn't provide details. The suspension followed a review by the university. A spokesman for the national Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity... Читать дальше...

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — A 39-year-old Maine man is dead after falling from a second-story balcony at his home. WCSH-TV reports (http://on.wcsh6.com/1U0dsPz ) that police say John Knight man was pronounced dead at the scene at 10 Tiger Lily Lane in Cape Elizabeth. Cape Elizabeth Police Captain Brent Sinclair says there was rot in the wood railing on the balcony, but added that it's too early in the investigation to say whether that contributed to fatal fall. Police say Knight's family members... Читать дальше...

The fire broke out Saturday afternoon at the private prison facility. Corrections Corporation of America, which operates the prison, says the blaze started in a laundry room dryer.

Retired air traffic controller Charlie Boice of Palm Beach Gardens prevailed Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, a hangout of Ernest Hemingway during his Key West residency in the 1930s. A panel of former contest winners chose Boice, 56, who said he shares Hemingway's passion for marlin fishing.

Native American tribes, some landowners and environmental groups are opposing the pipeline because critics fear it could contaminate groundwater and contribute to pollution. Many state and local officials in Republican-dominated South Dakota argue pipelines are safer for transporting oil than trains and tout potential economic benefits to the state such as jobs and tax revenue. South Dakota is one of several fronts where TransCanada is stalled in getting approval for the pipeline, which would go... Читать дальше...

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Court documents show a North Texas housekeeper who was fatally stabbed in an alleged life insurance scam had $5 million worth of policies in her name. The insurance companies have said the policies may have been obtained fraudulently and that it remains unclear whether Fox knew they existed.

DETROIT (AP) — Several hundred people have attended a Mass at a Detroit Catholic church to protest a Satanic group's announced plan to unveil a statue of Satan. Satanic Temple has said it would unveil the 8½-foot-tall bronze statue Saturday evening at an undisclosed location in Detroit, with only ticketed people knowing the location.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal jury has found in a civil lawsuit that a Massachusetts State Police Trooper used excessive force and engaged in malicious prosecution against a Massachusetts woman even though he had probable cause to arrest her for traffic violations. Shea claimed she was terrified of Trooper Bradford Porter when he accused her in 2007 of driving recklessly, speeding, resisting arrest, and using her vehicle as a deadly weapon.

Police spokeswoman Roseanne Vainuku says further investigation has turned up evidence that three people forced their way inside and confronted the victim and the homeowner. According to Vainuku, the suspects were wearing all black with bandanas covering their faces.

CAVALIER AIR FORCE STATION, N.D. (AP) — A military radar installation in remote northeastern North Dakota that was established more than 40 years ago to track enemy ballistic missiles in a time of tense international relations is moving its living and working conditions out of the Cold War era. The powerful radar serves both as a missile warning system, the base's primary mission, and as a surveillance system to track satellites and other vessels orbiting the earth. On the inside, there are electronics upgrades that include new breakers... Читать дальше...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi government forces recaptured Anbar University from the Islamic State militant group Sunday after hours of fierce clashes, provincial officials said, as part of its push to reclaim territory across the embattled province. The university, located 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of Anbar's provincial capital, the militant-held city of Ramadi, was under the full control of government forces, which had entered the complex early Sunday amid intense combat with the militant group. The... Читать дальше...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: Iraqi forces retake Anbar University, near Ramadi, from Islamic State group.