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Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates

President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.

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Morehouse grads march across campus to hear Obama

President Barack Obama is having a rough stretch politically, but the nation's first black president was treated like a hero Sunday at graduation exercises for Morehouse College, the historically black men's school that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.

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Correction: Dog Attack story

In a May 18 story about a dog attack on a father and his two children, The Associated Press reported incorrectly that the dogs' owner was hurt as he helped get the animals back into the house. The injured person was a neighbor who ran to help and was bitten.

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Delta CEO plans to add jobs in NE Minnesota

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says he plans to add jobs at the carrier's reservation center in the northeastern Minnesota city of Chisholm.

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Ala. teacher cleared in taping together students

A sixth-grade teacher in Phenix City is thankful to be cleared of child abuse charges and plans to stick to the book for now on when correcting children.

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Florida Lotto jackpot rises to $12 million

The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $12 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.

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2 Fantasy 5 players share $140,847 top prize

Two winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $140,847.88 each, the Florida Lottery said Sunday.

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Cell phones stolen from Georgia charter school

Investigators in Mitchell County are trying to solve an unusual theft from a school.

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Ga water negotiator's role may be seen as conflict

One of Georgia's negotiators in a tri-state water dispute also is president of a lobbying firm that has sought to commercially develop a technology billed as a partial solution to that feud, a situation that a top state official and others say could look like a conflict even though it is legal.

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5 vehicles set afire in Columbus historic district

Columbus officials are investigating the burning of five vehicles in the city's historic district.