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Friday, May 24, 2013

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys as Scouts, but controversy likely to persist

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Quick’s LA Kings put Sharks on brink with 3-0 win

Los Angeles Kings left wing Dustin Penner (25) congratulates goalie Jonathan Quick (32) after Quick recorded a shutout against the San Jose Sharks in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals in the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Los Angeles.  The Kings won 3-0. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Kings haven’t lost a home game in two months, and the San Jose Sharks gave nothing close to the effort necessary to snap the champions’ streak in Game 5.

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Calif. horse owners want multi-state doping rules

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — California’s thoroughbred owners announced Thursday that they are committed to joining eight other states in adopting a common medication program that could lead to national standards for horse doping.

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Southern Cal increases lead in NCAA women’s golf

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Annie Park shot a 2-under 70 in windy conditions Thursday to take the individual lead and help Southern California increase its lead to 17 strokes with one round left in the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships.

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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

This March 17, 1973 file photo shows released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War.  In the lead is Stirm's daughter Lori, 15; followed by son Robert, 14; daughter Cynthia, 11; wife Loretta and son Roger, 12. On Thursday, May 24, 2013, some 200 former POWs, almost all of them former pilots, will reunite for a three-day celebration at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba LInda, Calif., that coincides with the 40th anniversary of a star-studded White House dinner hosted by President Nixon to honor their sacrifice.  At the time, Nixon was embroiled in Watergate, but the former prisoners, now in their 60s and 70s, credit him with their freedom and have no qualms about expressing their loyalty for the 37th president.  This photo won the Pulitzer Prize for News Photography in 1973. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.

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