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Santa Barbara deputies didn’t watch videos, say killer seemed OK

Law officers who visited Elliot Rodger three weeks before he killed six college students near a Santa Barbara university were aware that he had posted disturbing videos but didn’t watch them because he seemed OK when they visited him.

 
Shinseki resigns amid veterans’ health care issues

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday in a personal meeting with President Barack Obama, shortly after publicly apologizing for deep problems plaguing the agency’s health care system that Obama called “totally unacceptable.”

Sterling, Ballmer reach Clippers sale ‘binding’ agreement

Shelley Sterling, half owner of the Los Angeles Clippers has reached a “binding agreement” to sell the basketball team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.

Scandals tarnish New Zealand’s ‘squeaky clean’ reputation

The unraveling corruption cases in New Zealand sports, business and politics have sullied the country’s record as “world’s least corrupt nation for eight years straight by the watchdog group Transparency International.”

Dead deer used in Philadelphia car insurance scam

Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.

30 percent of world population overweight

Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

No end yet to salmonella outbreak tied to chicken

An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken company hasn’t run its course after more than a year, with 50 new illnesses in the past two months and 574 people sickened since March 2013.

Phoenix VA hospital had average wait of 115 days

About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. A report cited an average 115-day wait for a first appointment for those on the waiting list.

 
Ex-Pats receiver Hernandez pleads not guilty in 2012 killings

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the 2012 deaths of two men he allegedly gunned down after an encounter inside a Boston nightclub.