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Park Service moves to ease Muir Woods congestion

MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. - Winter has returned to Muir Woods, a famous redwood forest in Marin County, Calif. The first rains of the new year produced new life in Redwood Creek, which flows through the woods. Even a handful of steelhead and Coho salmon have returned from the Pacific Ocean to spawn at the base of trees more than a thousand years old.

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Farmers and ranchers oppose stricter child-labor rules

Richard Thorpe worries the pathway he took to the rural ranching life he enjoys today may be blocked for kids who grow up in town.

Thorpe, owner of the Mesa TY Ranch east of Winters, Texas, strongly opposes a proposed U.S. Labor Department rule that would bar young teenagers from working on farms and ranches where they're not related to the owner-operator.

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Advocates predict high Latino-voter turnout for 2012

WASHINGTON - Latino voters are likely to turn out in record numbers in November, according to experts, and in some states will determine who wins.

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials predicted that 12.2 million Latinos will vote this year, a 25.6 percent increase from 2008.

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Court files: Josh Powell's childhood marked by marital strife, beatings, suicide try

PUYALLUP, Wash. - Long before Josh Powell killed himself and his 7- and 5-year-old sons in a Sunday fire, the pages of his parents' divorce file portrayed him as a seriously troubled teen who attempted suicide, killed pet gerbils, once threatened his mother with a butcher knife and early on adopted his father's allegedly disparaging view of women.

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Campaign to recognize racism draws nasty international reaction

DULUTH, Minn. - A close-up of a white woman's face confronts motorists from billboards plastered along major roads here with the message, in large, black letters: "It's hard to see racism when you're white."

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911 response to call about family killer Josh Powell seems dense

Listening to the 911 tapes now, after we know what was about to happen at family killer Josh Powell's house, the 911 call takers seem agonizingly dense and rude.

They ask questions that seem bizarrely off point, constantly interrupting and speaking over callers as they try to explain themselves.

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Westboro Baptist Church to protest funeral of two Powell boys killed by dad

A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket Saturday's funeral for the brothers killed by their father, Josh Powell, and Occupy Seattle members plan a counter protest.

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Santorum's campaign eyes Ohio, Michigan for next wins

The campaign of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is now surveying a broader political map than the one it saw before the trio of upsets Tuesday that sent the latest tremor through the predictably unpredictable Republican presidential nomination battle.

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Calif. wine arsonist sentenced to 27 years in most costly single industry disaster

In what is being called the most costly single disaster in the history of the American wine industry, Mark C. Anderson admitted he burned up hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of fine wine.

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Moonshine 'medicine' a 260-year-old tradition in S.C. character's family

Robert Perry leans forward in his rocking chair and picks up a small bottle, full of a pink, nearly clear liquid, and he grins.

PICKENS, S.C. - "That's my medicine," he said. "I call it my 'fountain of youth.' It keeps me young and my muscles limber. I'm 71, but I feel like a teenager."

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