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WASHINGTON – The tally of American workers claiming first-time jobless aid fell last week to below pre-hurricane levels, a government report showed Thursday. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 17,000 to 320,000 in the week ended Nov. 26 from an upwardly revised 337,000 the prior week, the Labor Department …

WASHINGTON – Sen. Conrad Burns is taking the offensive in the Justice Department investigation of Jack Abramoff as new information surfaces about Burns’ involvement with the lobbyist and his clients. The Montana Republican and his staff met Abramoff’s lobbying team on at least eight occasions and collected $12,000 in donations …

SARASOTA, Fla. – Carlie Brucia was a thoughtful, bubbly girl — an A-student who liked to sing off-key to make her mother laugh and had a fondness for shoes, her parents and a teacher told the jurors who will help decide whether her killer should be executed. “I lost the …