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| Pittsburgh surpasses Los Angeles as nation's sootiest city |
30 Apr 08, 23:22 ET |
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| AP - A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country. |
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| Fla. university locked down after gun fired at campus party |
30 Apr 08, 22:40 ET |
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| AP - Authorities lifted a lockdown at Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday after apprehending a suspect in an overnight campus shooting, officials said. |
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| Hawaiian sovereignty seekers take over palace in Honolulu |
30 Apr 08, 20:24 ET |
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| AP - A Native Hawaiian group that advocates sovereignty locked the gates of a historic palace in downtown Honolulu on Wednesday, saying it would carry out the business of what it considers the legitimate government of the islands. |
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| New York bans grisly electrocution of animals for fur |
30 Apr 08, 19:19 ET |
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| AP - New York has become the first state in the nation to ban the electrocution of animals in a particularly gruesome way to harvest their fur. |
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| Spectacular blaze damages nightclub at Hollywood and Vine |
30 Apr 08, 17:20 ET |
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| AP - Fire tore through a hip nightclub at the storied corner of Hollywood and Vine on Wednesday, covering the landmark-studded neighborhood with smoke and ash. No injuries were reported. |
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| Appeals court dismisses NY suit vs. gun industry |
30 Apr 08, 16:48 ET |
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| Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court on
Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against
gun makers the city targeted in a bid to stop the flow of
illegal weapons. |
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| Ancient meteorite goes unsold in N.Y. as dung sells |
30 Apr 08, 16:35 ET |
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| Reuters - Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at
auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite
which was supposed to top the sale went unsold. |
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| AP IMPACT: Prosecutors demand more witness-protection money |
30 Apr 08, 16:18 ET |
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| AP - Maurice Pulley agreed last fall to testify against the thug accused of shooting him in the face in an argument over a parking spot. But before Pulley ever took the stand, two gunmen ran up to him and killed him in his mother's driveway. |
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| Aspirin seen cutting risk of type of breast cancer |
30 Apr 08, 15:55 ET |
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| Reuters - A daily aspirin may give women
modest protection against the most common type of breast
cancer, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday. |
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| Pennsylvania college woos students by putting them in ads |
30 Apr 08, 14:53 ET |
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| AP - Wilkes University badly wanted 18-year-old Nicole Pollock to be part of its freshman class this fall - so much so that it made her the star of her own ad campaign. |
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| New Mexico police remove 3 children from church compound |
30 Apr 08, 13:23 ET |
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| AP - State police have removed three children from an apocalyptic church whose leader claims to be the Messiah and acknowledges having sex with some of his followers. |
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| Republicans blast Democrats' anti-McCain Iraq ad |
30 Apr 08, 13:11 ET |
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| AFP - US Republicans on Wednesday slammed a Democratic Party campaign ad they said misrepresents the views of their presumed presidential candidate John McCain on US troops in Iraq. |
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| David Blaine sets breath holding record for Oprah |
30 Apr 08, 12:58 ET |
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| Reuters - Magician David Blaine set a world
record for underwater breath holding on Wednesday when he
stopped breathing for more than 17 minutes suspended in a
water-filled sphere on the stage of Oprah Winfrey's talk show. |
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| Obama Tries to Dig Out |
30 Apr 08, 12:00 ET |
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| Time.com - His candidacy is reeling from Jeremiah Wright's comments. Now Obama is dropping nuance and showing some fire |
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| Wounded vets race cars on S.C. track while recovering |
30 Apr 08, 11:32 ET |
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| AP - It's been two years since Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Stengel sat behind the wheel, and life is much different now. |
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| Boy Scout finds $800 in wallet and promptly returns it |
30 Apr 08, 05:46 ET |
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| AP - When an 11-year-old Boy Scout found someone's wallet with $800 inside, he understood what the person who lost it was going through. |
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| New pastor to head Obama's 8,000-member Chicago church |
30 Apr 08, 04:14 ET |
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| AP - When the Rev. Otis Moss III takes to the pulpit before a congregation that includes Barack Obama, he's as likely to preach about Tupac Shakur or one of his favorite authors as he is the Apostle Paul. |
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| Microsoft could nominate proxy slate of directors for Yahoo: report |
30 Apr 08, 03:40 ET |
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| AFP - Microsoft could make its next move against Yahoo Wednesday with the software giant likely to try and replace Yahoo's board of directors, the Wall Street Journal reported. |
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| Shark kills U.S. surfer at Mexico beach resort |
30 Apr 08, 00:32 ET |
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| Reuters - A shark killed an American tourist
surfing in western Mexico, police said on Tuesday, the second
fatal attack along North America's Pacific coast in four days. |
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