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Chrysler recalling 87,000 Jeep Wranglers worldwide over fire risk

By doris | Published: May 21, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com DETROIT – Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires. The recall affects only Wranglers from the 2010 model year that have automatic transmissions and were built before July 14, 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents [...]

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Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration

By doris | Published: May 20, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CHICAGO (AP) — Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet. Several hundred demonstrators wound through [...]

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Blind Chinese activist leaves for US

By doris | Published: May 19, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BEIJING (AP) — A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which [...]

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Boy finds a piece of finger in Arby’s sandwich

By doris | Published: May 18, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com JACKSON, Mich. — A Michigan teen made a gristly discovery after biting into an Arby’s junior roast beef sandwich. Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out. Turns out it [...]

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Edwards’ conduct was ‘shameful’ but not illegal, attorney tells jurors

By doris | Published: May 17, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 3:56 p.m. ET: John Edwards was a bad husband who lied to his family, but he’s not a criminal, his lawyer told jurors Thursday as the former presidential candidate’s corruption trial wrapped up. “As many are his moral wrongs,” none of Edwards’ misdeeds was “a legal one,” lead defense [...]

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Coke, Pepsi make changes to avoid cancer warning

By doris | Published: May 16, 2012

Full Story at USATODAY.com Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens bear a cancer warning label. The companies said the changes will be expanded nationally to streamline their [...]

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Police: Phony officer could be killing Mississippi drivers

By doris | Published: May 15, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said. After two such shootings this month, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help to find the person. The agency is receiving leads [...]

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Same-sex marriage front-and-center in presidential race

By doris | Published: May 14, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) WASHINGTON – The issue of same-sex marriage is pushing the presidential race in a new direction. A just-released CBS News/New York Times poll shows 38 percent of Americans say they now believe same-sex couples should be allowed to get married. Twenty-four percent think they shold form civil unions. Thirty-three [...]

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FBI agent missing, possibly armed, suicidal

By doris | Published: May 13, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (AP) BURBANK, Calif. – Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and other law enforcement personnel searched a rugged mountain area Saturday for an FBI agent who had not been seen for more than 24 hours and was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal. Los Angeles-based Special Agent Stephen Ivens was [...]

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JPMorgan lobbied for big loophole on risky trading

By doris | Published: May 12, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Soon after lawmakers finished work on the nation’s new financial regulatory law, a team of JPMorgan Chase lobbyists descended on Washington. Their goal was to obtain special breaks that would allow banks to make big bets in their portfolios, including some of the types of trading that led to [...]

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Fla. teacher faces dismissal over ‘cone of shame’

By doris | Published: May 11, 2012

Full Story at sfgate.com A Florida high school science teacher faces dismissal amid allegations that she used a “cone of shame” dog collar to discipline students. Pasco County schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has recommended firing 47-year-old Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp for putting a dog collar on at least eight of her ninth graders on two days in [...]

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Michigan lotto winner charged with welfare fraud

By doris | Published: May 10, 2012

Full Story at azcentral.com LINCOLN PARK, Mich. — A Michigan woman who continued to get food stamps after winning a lottery jackpot was arraigned Tuesday on welfare fraud charges. Amanda Clayton, 25, of Lincoln Park was arrested on Monday. If convicted of the two felony charges, she could face up to four years in prison. [...]

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Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July

By doris | Published: May 9, 2012

Full Story at sfgate.com For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the [...]

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“Crab” chips, fruity Oreos? They’re big overseas

By doris | Published: May 8, 2012

Full Story at seattlepi.com NEW YORK (AP) — Russians prefer their Lay’s potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors. The Chinese like their Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg’s All-Bran cereal is served floating in hot coffee instead of cold milk. Americans might get squeamish at the thought of [...]

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Calif. man dies at 103; had bullet in his head since 1917

By doris | Published: May 7, 2012

Full Story at content.usatoday.com William Lawlis Pace, of Hilmar, Calif., died Monday at 103. Remarkable feat on its own, but even more remarkable because he lived 95 of his years with a bullet in his head, The Modesto Bee informs the world. In 2006, the Burkburnett, Texas, native, who marked his 103rd birthday Feb. 27, [...]

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Vietnamese businessman buys one-man Wyoming town for $900K

By doris | Published: May 6, 2012

Full Story at content.usatoday.com Buford, Wyo., population 1 and “the nation’s smallest town,” has a new owner. An unidentified businessman from Vietnam — on his first trip to the United States, joined by an associate — bought the one-man town at auction today for $900,000, the Associated Press tells us. (CNN is reporting that two [...]

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Man who dressed as dead mother guilty of fraud

By doris | Published: May 5, 2012

Full Story at Reuters.com (Reuters) – A man who impersonated his dead mother as part of a real estate scam – using lipstick, manicured nails and even an oxygen tank at a meeting – was convicted of fraud on Thursday and faces up to 83 years in prison, prosecutors said. Thomas Parkin, 51, was found [...]

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First-Grader Suspended for Singing ‘I’m Sexy and I Know It’

By doris | Published: May 4, 2012

Full Story at ABCNewsgo.com A Colorado elementary school student was suspended from school this week for singing a lyric from a popular LMFAO song, “I’m sexy and I know it.” Those six little words from the Los Angeles rap-influenced duo earned first-grader D’Avonte Meadows a three day dismissal from Sable Elementary in Aurora, Colo. “I [...]

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Goodbye Norma Jean: Chicago’s 26-foot Marilyn Monroe sculpture moving west

By doris | Published: May 3, 2012

Full Story at Itineraries.msnbc.msn.com The late filmmaker Colin Clark may have had his “week with Marilyn,” but travelers to Chicago will likely have to settle for one last weekend fling. On Monday, the city will begin removing Forever Marilyn, the 26-foot outdoor sculpture of the iconic actress, ending her run as one of the city’s [...]

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Tasers may provoke deadly heart problems, study finds

By doris | Published: May 2, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) Tasers may provoke heart problems in the people it strikes, according to a new study from the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. VIDEO: Taser: An officer’s weapon of choice The study of electronic control devices (ECDs) – often known as Tasers – was conducted by Dr. Douglas P. Zipes, [...]

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