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Mexico finds cartels making fake military uniforms

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines say they have found a clandestine workshop in northern Mexico where presumed drug traffickers made copies of military uniforms. The navy says hundreds of camouflage pants, shirts and vests were found at the ... Full story

1000s of students protest media in Mexico

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of university students marched through central Mexico City on Wednesday to protest media coverage that they say favors the candidate of the former ruling party in upcoming presidential elections. The students say... Full story

Fitzgerald stepping down as US attorney in Chicago

DON BABWIN and JASON KEYSER, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald, known as one of the most relentless U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping dow... Full story

LA designer says Facebook bride wore her dress

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER (AP) — Los Angeles-based designer Claire Pettibone says Priscilla Chan was wearing one of her dresses when she married Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Pettibone wrote on her blog that she didn't know Chan was wearing one of her most pop... Full story

Ore. workers awarded $332K in onsite toilet fight

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two workers who claimed they were forced to urinate in a bucket have been awarded $332,000 after a jury found they were fired for complaining to Oregon regulators about the lack of an onsite toilet. The Oregonian report... Full story

Track coach takes student to prom, loses job

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman has been dismissed as a volunteer track coach at a small Eastern Oregon high school because she escorted a 17-year-old boy to last month's prom. Melissa Bowerman, 41... Full story

Sheriff: Gang started riot in prison for illegal immigrants

HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As many as 300 inmates, some of them armed with makeshift weapons such as broomsticks, rioted at a privately run prison for illegal immigrants, beating a guard to death and injuring 19 people, a sheriff said Monday. Mor... Full story

Woman who tossed $1M lotto ticket wants money

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — Attorneys for an Arkansas woman who threw away a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million say another woman who plucked the ticket out of the trash and claimed the jackpot should turn the money over to the court. Sharon Du... Full story

Woman with flesh-eating disease takes own breaths

JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — The father of a Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating disease says his daughter is now able to breathe on her own, a milestone that sent the family's spirits soaring. Aimee Copeland is now focused on taking each breath without... Full story

Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B

KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer

HONG KONG (AP) — Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders. The deal,... Full story