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quickly consumes the mostly wooden building that authorities had long warned was unsafe.
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• 8. IN CALIFORNIA, LOW-WAGE WORKERS GETTING A BOOST
• The state's minimum wage would rise to $10 an hour within three years under a bill that Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated he'll sign.
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• 9. 'FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES'
• Travelers buy tickets for as little as $5 before United Airlines discovers the glitch on its booking website and phone centers.
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• 10. PATRIOTS GET AN UGLY WIN
• New England nips the Jets, 13-10, in a game as sloppy as the weather.
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AP News in Brief
US and Russia attempt to bridge divides on deal to secure
Syria's chemical weapons
• GENEVA (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov say the prospects for a resumption in the Syria peace process are riding on the outcome of their chemical weapons talks.
• Kerry, flanked by Lavrov and the U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, told reporters Friday at the U.N. in Geneva after an hour-long meeting that the chances for a second peace conference in Geneva "will obviously depend on the capacity to have success here ... on the subject of the chemical weapons."
• Brahimi also met privately with Kerry at a Geneva hotel on Thursday to explore ways to resume international negotiations last held in Geneva in June 2012 aimed at ending the Syrian civil war.
• Lavrov says it's "very unfortunate that for a long time that the Geneva communique was basically abandoned."
• Kerry and Lavrov say they will meet again in New York toward the end of the month to try to fix a date for second conference.
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Indian court sentences 4 men to death in fatal New Delhi gang rape case
• NEW DELHI (AP) -- A judge on Friday sentenced to death the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, order (Continued on page 39)
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