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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mitt Romney’s ties to the Northeast gave him a boost on the way to winning the New Hampshire primary. Newt Gingrich’s roots in the South probably had at least a little to do with his triumph in South Carolina. But such geographic ties aren’t expected to help either presidential candidate in next week’s Republican primary in Florida. It’s a diverse state feeling a world of economic hurt.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nearly 70 years after he earned it, Aaron Narvol has his Purple Heart.

CHICAGO (AP) — A crew member from the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia has filed a lawsuit in Chicago federal court against Carnival Cruise Lines and its Costa subsidiary.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal and state law enforcement officials have launched a fraud-fighting initiative to root out wrongdoing in the market for residential mortgage-backed securities.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was “semi-conscious, barely,” according to a caller on a 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen. Raymond Odierno (oh-dee-EHR’-noh), the Army chief of staff, says the Pentagon will take two heavy armor brigades out of Europe in 2013 and 2014 and eliminate them.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana precious metals mine received 27 citations in recent safety inspections triggered by the death of a worker.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — A U.S. man was sentenced Friday to die for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their suburban home, a crime that halted momentum to abolish the death penalty in the state of Connecticut.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.

Oil prices are rising as Iran prepares to consider a ban on crude sales to European Union countries.