Obama uses school dollars to prod states to change
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States are jockeying for a new $5 billion pot of education money even before the contest has begun. The Obama administration was opening the competition Thursday for grants for ideas like charter schools or judging...
AP Sources: Reid eyes payroll tax hike on wealthy
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Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous...
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Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year. ...
Death penalty rare, executions rarer in military
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Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century. Maj. Nidal Hasan, the...
Mrs. Obama says veterans' skills can help at home
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First lady Michelle Obama said on Wednesday that many veterans want to serve their communities and nation in ways that "make their entire life a tour of duty." Mrs. Obama also acknowledged the sacrifices that troops...
Relentless rains lead Va. gov to declare emergency
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Virginia's governor declared a state of emergency Wednesday as unrelenting rain from the remnants of a tropical storm soaked the state, while officials in North Carolina braced for another day of heavy rain. Gov. Tim...
Stench returns near Ohio property that held bodies
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A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence. "It's like it got worse," said...
Ga. officers: Pilot tried to hit them with plane
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Police say a pilot tried to hit officers with his plane at a small Georgia airport. Authorities say Dan Wayne Gryder was jailed Wednesday and charged with two counts of aggravated assault. Griffin police investigator...
Woman attacked by chimp reveals face on 'Oprah'
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A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her heavily disfigured face on television Wednesday, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn't angry. "I don't even think...
Teen may be victim of 1970s Houston serial killer
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A medical examiner in Texas believes she has found another victim of a serial killer who terrorized Houston in the early 1970s. Sharon Derrick with the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday that the...
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Police say gunmen kill Pakistani working at Iranian Consulate in northwest city of Peshawar. ...
Chavez foe: Venezuela a refuge for Colombia rebels
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A prominent opponent of President Hugo Chavez accused the socialist leader's government on Wednesday of turning a blind eye to leftist Colombian rebels taking refuge in border areas of Venezuela. Tachira state Gov....
Venezuela destroys more than 30,000 firearms
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Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 30,000 illegal firearms as part of an effort to combat soaring crime. The government plans to sell the demolished guns as scrap metal and donate the proceeds to a...
Irish priest freed in Philippines after a month
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A 79-year-old Irish Roman Catholic priest abducted in the Philippines a month ago was freed early Thursday and neither country paid any of the kidnappers' $2 million ransom demand, Irish and Filipino authorities said. ...
Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica
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A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday. The Aardonyx...
Winnie the Pooh royalties dispute appealed
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The company founded by the man who made Winnie the Pooh internationally famous filed a notice of appeal to get unpaid royalties for the use of the beloved children's characters. Attorneys for Stephen Slesinger Inc....
Standard & Poor's to change SmallCap 600 listings
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Standard & Poor's said Wednesday it is making changes to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index. Cantel Medical Corp., a Little Falls, N.J., provider of infection prevention and control products, will replace NATCO Group...
Earnings Preview-J.C. Penney Co.
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Department-store operator J.C. Penney Co. reports earnings for the third quarter on Friday before the market opens. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW:...
US risks following Japan's example of stagnancy
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Heavy government stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates did little to end a "lost decade" of stagnation and mushrooming debt in Japan. Some economists and lawmakers say the U.S. may wind up following the same...
Report: 10 states face looming budget disasters
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In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state officials dealing with the nation's highest unemployment rate are slashing spending on schools...
Perry: Steven Tyler taking time off from Aerosmith
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Aerosmith's guitarist Joe Perry says the future of the band is still uncertain. Perry said Wednesday that he thinks front man Steven Tyler wants to take some time off from the band _ even though the two appeared...
Lou Dobbs leaving CNN for 'new opportunities'
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CNN's Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his...
List of winners at the 43rd Annual CMA Awards
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Winners at Wednesday's 43rd annual Country Music Association Awards: _ Entertainer of the Year: Taylor Swift _ Single: "I Run to You," Lady Antebellum _ Album: "Fearless," Taylor Swift _ Song: "In Color," Jamey...
Taylor Swift wins CMA entertainer of the year
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Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest person to win entertainer of the year and the first solo female to win it in a decade. The tearful 19-year-old _ who also was the evening's...
Conductor Slatkin to skip November DSO concerts
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Renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin will skip appearances this month with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as he recovers from a heart attack. Slatkin's manager R. Douglas Sheldon said Wednesday that doctors want the...
VETERANS DAY: Prof to serve God, country
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FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Seminary professor John Laing is joining 3,600 citizen-soldiers in the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team as part of the largest Texas Army National Guard deployment since World War II.Lt. Col....
FIRST-PERSON: Christ, at work in the military
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NORFOLK, Va. (BP)--The commitment to service in the armed forces is one of the most binding commitments on earth. Besides the willingness to die for country, it is a commitment to go wherever and do whatever is required...
BP journalism contest draws 20 schools
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--In its ninth year, the Baptist Press Collegiate Journalism Conference drew contest entries from 20 colleges and universities as nearly 100 awards were distributed, including the President's Award...
Mormons throw support behind gay-rights cause
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It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard. On Tuesday night, after a series...
FIRST-PERSON: Missions and class Christmas parties
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--What in the world (pun intended) do Sunday School class Christmas parties and international missions have in common? Generally, not much. But you can change that if you start planning right away....
CDC now says 4,000 swine flu deaths in US
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Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu _ about four times the estimate they've been using. The new, higher figure was first reported by The New York Times. It...
UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
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Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of...
WHO says country measures on swine flu can vary
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Countries can choose from stronger measures like school closures that may slow the spread of swine flu in the beginning, but the disease will continue to spread anyway, a World Health Organization spokesman said...
Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading
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Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company...
Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known
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Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and...
Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original
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The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use. Good thing a lot can change in a year. Though not without flaws, the latest version of the device, the...
Gene found that seems key in evolution of speech
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Chimps, our nearest relative, don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference. The mutation seems to have helped humans develop speech and language. It's...
Ctrip.com International 3Q profit up 80 percent
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Ctrip.com International Ltd., a Chinese travel service provider, said Wednesday its third-quarter profit rose 80 percent on higher revenues from hotel and flight reservations and tour bookings. Its shares jumped in...
Computer Sciences posts drop in fiscal 2Q profit
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Information technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal second quarter profit fell more than 50 percent from last year when it reaped a large tax benefit, but still beat Wall Street's...
Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it
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Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup. The National...