Court records: Singer Usher files for divorce
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AP - Court records show singer Usher has filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond after less than two years of marriage.
Notre Dame's Obama invite riles Catholic bishops
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AP - This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God.
Israeli woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress
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AP - An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday.
Brazil crews struggle to gather plane wreckage
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Reuters - Search crews in the Atlantic struggled on Friday to recover wreckage from an Air France flight as hopes dwindled of finding bodies from a crash possibly caused by pilots acting on flawed speed readings.
Heaviest rains miss Chicago area
A wide and sometimes heavy band of storms moved across Northern Illinois Saturday evening, but Chicago and the immediate area missed most of the heaviest rainfall. Much of northern and central Illino...
Chicago man charged with kidnap, assault of 4
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AP - Authorities say a Chicago man kidnapped and sexually assaulted two women and two teenage girls over a 12-hour span, playing Russian roulette with the oldest woman and letting his pit bull attack them.
Dozens arrested in crackdown on Latino gang accused of targeting blacks
Authorities charge 147 members and associates in a massive racketeering case with racially motivated attacks designed to drive African Americans out of Hawaiian Gardens. Federal authorities Thursday accused a south Los Angeles County street gang of a litany of crimes, including the murder of a sheriff's deputy and racially motivated attacks designed to drive African Americans from their town.
Mich. finally gets good news with small car plant
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AP - Michigan has snatched back a few of its fast-disappearing auto jobs, winning a high-stakes competition with two other states to build General Motors Corp.'s next-generation subcompact car.
States Set to Ring in Independence Day Sans Budget
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn vetoes the Illinois budget in his office at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, July 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
US Airways begins Oslo service
marked the first flight from its hub at Philadelphia International Airport to Oslo on Thursday. The Oslo service is the second phase of the Tempe, Ariz.-based airline’s (NYSE:LCC) trans-Atlanti...
Blast ignites fire in hyperbaric chamber, kills 1
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AP - An Italian woman has died and her 4-year-old grandson is in critical condition after a hyberbaric chamber exploded at a South Florida clinic.
Chicago activists bring Olympics fight to IOC base
A protest group opposing Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Games took its case to International Olympic Committee headquarters Tuesday.Three activists from the No Games Chicago organization asked ...
Shootout kills 18 at Acapulco resort
It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion in a four-hour shootout.
Marxism and military don't mix in Paraguay
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AP - President Fernando Lugo dismissed the heads of Paraguay's army, navy and engineering corps for allowing nearly 1,000 Marxist youth to host a congress on military grounds, the government said Wednesday.
CDC seeing more regular flu cases now
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AP - U.S. health officials are seeing a surprisingly high number of cases of ordinary, seasonal flu at a time when the flu season typically peters out.
The Wrong Way to Help American Agriculture
On Thursday, May 14, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Representative Howard Berman (D-CA), and Representative Adam Putnam (R-FL) introduced "the Agricultural Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and Security A...
Healthy lifestyles on the decline in US
Washington, May 27 : A new study conducted in the U.S. has found that only a small proportion of adults follow healthy lifestyle pattern, and in fact, the numbers are declining.
American Career College’s Ontario Campus Approved to Offer Respiratory Therapy Program
ONTARIO, Calif. - (Business Wire) American Career College has gained approval to offer a Respiratory Therapy (RT) program at its Ontario campus, where the program’s initial class will commence o...
Bank of America reports threat by Federal Reserve
'); Bank of America's chief executive Thursday for the first time said publicly that officials in the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve threatened to remove top executives of the bank unl...
Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies
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AP - David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has died. He was 88.
Oregon mom accused in river drowning of 4-year-old
Audi sedan, on the bridge when residents of the area heard the children's screams."Had they not been awake at one in the morning," Austria said, "we would investigating a case here with no children."W...
Mother, young daughter among four slain
Child, three adults were found dead Monday in a rural area of Kansas City, Kansas Peggy Castleberry, 41, and daughter Juanita Castleberry-Bess, 3, among the dead Police would not say whether the four ...
Findings of Decades of Massive Fraud by Tobacco Industry Upheld in U.S. Court of Appeals
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legacy Foundation(R) applauds today's unanimous decision in U.S. v. Philip Morris, et, al. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld...
Vegas casinos try bargains to lure back visitors
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AP - It's back to the buffet, bargains and customer bonuses for Las Vegas casinos.
Serena powers into second round
Serena Williams beats Portuguese qualifier Neuza Silva in straight sets at Wimbledon.
Obama's healthcare push on rocky road in Congress
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Reuters - Growing worries over budget deficits and government intervention could jeopardize President Barack Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul in Congress as lawmakers bicker over costs and strategies for covering the uninsured.
Governor Deval Patrick Talks Taxes
Strange But True: Obscure Mass. Laws After signing the ethics reform bill Wednesday, Governor Deval Patrick sat down with WBZ's Karen Anderson for a one-on-one interview. They talked about his gas tax...
Man pleads not guilty to killing Chandra Levy
District of Columbia Superior Court on six counts, including murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual abuse. He pleaded not guilty to all counts.A judge set a two-week jury trial for Jan. 27. A status ...
Truck explosion shuts down part of I-95 in Fla.
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AP - Authorities say all northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in South Florida are closed after a tanker truck carrying more than 8,000 gallons of gasoline exploded.
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