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ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried Wednesday to shake accusations that he's an inconsistent conservative after a top adviser compared the campaign's shift from primary fight to general election to an Etch A Sketch....

ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried Wednesday to shake accusations that he's an inconsistent conservative after a top adviser compared the campaign's shift from primary fight to general election to an Etch A Sketch....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an al-Qaida-linked terror spree that killed seven people....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An 88-year-old "Renaissance man" suspected of helping his wife kill herself doted over his partner, caring for her in a custom-built home overlooking a canyon as she became increasingly ill, relatives said Wednesday....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman once took criminal justice classes at the community college and was practically a one-man neighborhood watch in his gated part of town, calling police close to 50 times over the past eight years to report such things as slow-driving vehicles, strangers loitering in the neighborhood and open garages....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Supreme Court panel voted Wednesday not to free a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in a case that has put Mexico's troubled justice system on trial and become a cause celebre in France....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city of Philadelphia must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Two California men on a gay cruise of the Caribbean were arrested Wednesday in Dominica, where sex between two men is illegal....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have made their state legislature the first one to repeal a gay marriage law, handing gay-rights supporters a key victory in the Northeast, where same-sex marriage is prevalent....