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Snow, sleet target Midwest and Northeast

By doris | Published: January 20, 2012

Full Story at usNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET: Snow was falling heavily by midafternoon in Chicago as a winter storm spread east, NBCChicago.com reported. Though no significant delays were reported, airlines at O’Hare Airport canceled more than 300 flights, NBCChicago.com said. At Midway Airport, Southwest Airlines canceled all 70 of its flights scheduled between [...]

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Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes

By doris | Published: October 10, 2011

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com You might have heard that the United States Postal Service is in trouble: that it’s losing billions, that it will have to end Saturday service and close branches — and most inflammatory, that it might need a government bailout. Perhaps you heard that the Postal Service couldn’t pay $5.5 billion bill [...]

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4 Students Taken To Wrong School

By doris | Published: August 30, 2011

Full Story at wgal.com SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Four students in the Susquehanna Township School District found themselves at the wrong school on Monday. Becky Brown said it all started when her 8-year-old daughter and three other students weren’t picked up at their bus stop. Another driver came to get them, but that driver took [...]

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Another massive rally for stocks as Dow soars 423 on optimism about economy

By doris | Published: August 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Wall Street’s wild week continued Thursday with a 423-point surge for the Dow Jones industrial average. Stocks shot higher after investors saw small signs that the economy might not be headed into another recession. With a 400-plus point move for the Dow, Thursday’s close marks the first time [...]

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Final News of the World hits stands as scandal closes tabloid

By doris | Published: July 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com London (CNN) — The last edition of the News of the World hit stands Sunday morning, as Britain’s best-selling newspaper shuts down in the face of a scandal over illegal eavesdropping and bribery that has outraged Britain and rattled the foundation of the nation’s political establishment. Plastered with a montage of [...]

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Site will help you decide best time to buy tech gear

By doris | Published: June 20, 2011

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com Washington (CNN) – NBC is calling it a mulligan. During the Sunday broadcast of the final round of golf’s U.S. Open coverage the broadcast showed a taped vignette at the beginning of the show. It featured children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance but omitted them saying the phrase “under God, indivisible.” [...]

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Katie Couric to make CBS departure official this week

By doris | Published: April 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (EW.com) — CBS’ high-profile — and very expensive — attempt to juice up its “Evening News” telecast is expected to come to an official end this week. A well-placed source told EW that Katie Couric, 54, will confirm that she’s decided to leave the telecast to pursue other opportunities. Her contract [...]

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WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers

By doris | Published: December 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Amazon, whose servers have been home to WikiLeaks since earlier this week, has quit hosting it, the website behind a massive disclosure of controversial documents said Wednesday. WikiLeaks confirmed the move on its Twitter feed Wednesday afternoon. “WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted,” read a post from shortly before 3 [...]

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One-handed model in bra becomes overnight sensation

By doris | Published: October 24, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com A one-handed model who posed in a bra for a charity ad campaign has become a European sensation. The 35-year-old graphic designer has been swamped with requests for interviews from around Europe after appearing in a print ad for CAP48, a nonprofit organization that highlights disability issues in France and Belgium, [...]

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Second wife warned U.S. of Mumbai plotter

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com.com There were two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting a terrorist attack in India with the Pakistani extremist group that carried out the Mumbai assault, NBC News confirmed Saturday. But the second warning, given by the man’s wife to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad just a year before the [...]

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China coal mine explosion kills 20, traps 17

By doris | Published: October 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com BEIJING — A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped 17 workers underground Saturday in the country’s central region, a national work safety official said. The blast came shortly after the world was riveted by Chile’s dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners after they spent more than [...]

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Sky Glider Stuck At State Fair

By doris | Published: August 7, 2010

Full Story at WISN.com WEST ALLIS, Wis. –Riders got stuck Thursday night when the Sky Glider stopped working on opening day of the Wisconsin State Fair. Fair organizers got the Sky Glider back operating on Friday afternoon.The West Allis Fire Department moved trucks onto the State Fair Grounds, according to Patrice Harris with the fair. [...]

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Chelsea Clinton weds longtime beau in New York

By doris | Published: August 1, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Rhinebeck, New York (CNN) — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and longtime beau Marc Mezvinsky were wed Saturday “in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts,” a 50-acre estate in Rhinebeck, New York, according to her parents. “We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their [...]

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Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you think you’ve heard it all, follow this tale of a hungry black bear who went for a ride, literally. Douglas County, Colorado, Sheriff’s deputies early Friday got a call about a honking car and a commotion inside. Perhaps it was teenagers or a thief, they thought as [...]

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Couple suspected in child’s kidnapping arrested in Arizona

By doris | Published: July 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A man and woman suspected of kidnapping a 5-year-old boy from Missouri were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, an FBI spokesman said. The boy — Devon Denman — was found unharmed Monday in the back seat of a stolen vehicle after a high-speed police pursuit in New Mexico [...]

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Round-the-world teen sailor alive, well

By doris | Published: June 11, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com A 16-year-old Californian girl attempting to sail solo around the world is safe and well, her parents said, after a massive search and rescue operation was launched in the Indian Ocean when she triggered distress signals. Abby Sunderland was last heard from about 6 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, when she broke [...]

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Ohio girl top speller with ‘stromuhr’

By doris | Published: June 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Who says Cleveland can’t win a championship? The long-suffering sports city — which can’t seem to win a trophy on a court or a field — captured one in a hotel ballroom Friday night when 14-year-old Anamika Veeramani took first prize at the 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Go [...]

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Abandoned truck on bridge not a threat, NYPD says

By doris | Published: May 6, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Authorities reopened the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly known as Triborough Bridge, early Thursday morning after determining that a moving truck abandoned on it did not pose a threat. Police closed off the bridge for about two and a half hours in both directions after being made [...]

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Karzai calls Clinton amid US criticism

By doris | Published: April 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday after the Obama administration expressed dismay at his assertion a day earlier that the international community was to blame for the controversy over last year’s disputed Afghan election. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Karzai used [...]

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More than 2 million affected by earthquake, Chile’s president says

By doris | Published: February 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Santiago, Chile (CNN) — As the sun set in Chile on Saturday, a picture of the immense structural damage wrought by an early morning earthquake had come clearly into focus, with the nation’s president estimating that 2 million people had been affected in some way. More than 300 people were killed, [...]

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