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DENVER – A high school teacher who was placed on leave after comparing President Bush’s State of the Union address to speeches by Adolf Hitler has been reinstated without any loss of pay, his attorney and school officials said Friday. Officials declined to say whether social studies instructor Jay Bennish …

JERUSALEM – Declaring victory in Israel’s elections, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party said Wednesday it would quickly form a ruling coalition to carry out its plan to pull out of much of the West Bank and draw Israel’s borders by 2010. Party officials said that despite a weaker-than-expected …

RALEIGH, N.C. – The trial of a CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan detainee went behind closed doors Monday as prosecutors tried to prevent defense attorneys from calling CIA employees as witnesses. Even the titles of some of the potential witnesses for the trial of David Passaro are classified …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday’s session are Bob Evans Farms Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Candela Laser Corp. Applied Signal Technology Inc. (APSG) is expected to report earnings per share for the third quarter of 18 cents, according to …

ANKARA, Turkey – Two explosives detonated within minutes of each other in a southern Turkish city Friday, seriously wounding one person and injuring 16 others, officials said. The first blast occurred in front of a bank on a busy road in Adana, injuring two bank employees, Adana police chief Mehmet …

CARO, Mich. – A Michigan prosecutor asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss the terror charges filed against three Texas men who sparked a security scare after they were arrested with nearly 1,000 cell phones in their van. A day earlier, a prosecutor in Ohio dropped similar charges against two other …

WASHINGTON – Inflation at the wholesale level edged up by the smallest amount in five months in July as falling food prices helped offset another rise in energy costs. The Labor Department reported that wholesale prices increased a slight 0.1 percent in July, far below the 0.5 percent jump in …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session Viacom Inc., Affiliated Computer Services Inc. and Imax Corp. Brinker International Inc. (EAT) is expected to report earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 65 cents, according to analysts polled by Thomson …

VIENNA, Austria – Excerpts of a statement issued Monday by Natascha Kampusch, the young Austrian woman who escaped last week after being held by a kidnapper for more than eight years, translated from German by The Associated Press: ——— Dear Journalists, Reporters, Dear General Public, I am definitely aware of …

STAR CITY, Russia – Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule …