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Dow Inches Closer to All-Time High

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Dow Inches Closer to All-Time High The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 175 points on Wednesday, less than 1 percent from its all-time high set in October 2007 and the closest it has been to that high in more than five years. The Dow closed up 1.3 percent to 14,075...


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Zoo Training 'Moms' for Rejected Baby

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Zoo Training 'Moms' for Rejected Baby The Cincinnati Zoo is training human beings to be temporary surrogate “mothers” for an infant gorilla that was rejected by her natural mother shortly after birth. The 4.7-pound female gorilla was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas on January 29, but was...


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Highway Deaths Up; First Time in Years

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Highway Deaths Up; First Time in Years For the first time in seven years, fatalities on the nation's roads went up 5


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Burglary Is Reality for TV Gun Shop

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Burglary Is Reality for TV Gun Shop An unknown number of guns were stolen early today from a Colorado firearms dealer featured in the Discovery Channel reality series “American Guns.” Police in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge responded to an alarm at Gunsmoke Guns just after 4 a.m. and found that...


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Student's Alleged Killer Tweeted Victim Minutes Before the Murder

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Student's Alleged Killer Tweeted Victim Minutes Before the Murder The funeral for a Michigan State University senior is being held today in Rochester, Mich., just days after the aspiring dentist was allegedly killed by someone he tweeted less than an hour before the attack.


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Student Risks Expulsion by Claiming Rape in Public

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Student Risks Expulsion by Claiming Rape in Public A University of North Carolina sophomore who accused a fellow student of rape says she's facing possible expulsion because a student-government group claims she violated the college's honor code by displaying "disruptive or intimidating behavior" toward her alleged rapist.


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Rapper Lil Poopy, 9, Stirs Controversy

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Rapper Lil Poopy, 9, Stirs Controversy If you’ve never heard of 9-year-old rapper Lil Poopy, you soon will. The Brockton, Mass., boy, born Luie Rivera Jr., refers to himself as a “Coke Boy,” rides (without a seat belt) in a Ferrari and slaps a woman’s bottom, in a raunchy music video that...


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Mars or Bust: A Private Mission by 2018?

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Mars or Bust: A Private Mission by 2018? Entrepreneurs say they can send two people -- a married couple -- to Mars and back in five years. The effort, Inspiration Mars, is led by Dennis Tito, who was the first paying space tourist in 2001. Is it possible?


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Photos: Today in Pictures

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Photos: Today in Pictures Today's Top Photos From Around the Globe


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Bobby Brown Sentenced for DUI

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Bobby Brown Sentenced for DUI He was also ordered to four years probation and an 18 month alcohol program.


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'Tanning Mom' Patricia Krentcil Cleared

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'Tanning Mom' Patricia Krentcil Cleared Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey woman known as “Tanning Mom,” will not face child endangerment charges for allegedly bringing her daughter into a tanning booth last year. A Newark, N.J., grand jury refused to indict Krentcil Tuesday. “We presented all the available evidence in the...


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Coast Guard Responds to Gulf Oil Spill

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Newtown Parent Sobs at Gun Hearing

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Newtown Parent Sobs at Gun Hearing A father who lost his son in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School wept openly today as he testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a proposed assault weapons ban. “Jesse was the love of my life.  He was the only family I...


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Kendra Wilkinson and Kate Gosselin Swap Lives

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Kendra Wilkinson and Kate Gosselin Swap Lives In the second season premiere of  ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap,” former Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson and reality TV star Kate Gosselin changed households and saw the other’s daily life on the opposite coast. Wilkinson is used to a Hollywood lifestyle that includes a helper in...


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Supreme Court Spars Over Section 5

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Supreme Court Spars Over Section 5 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court look likely to rule against a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


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Vermont Woman Receives Face Transplant

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Vermont Woman Receives Face Transplant A Vermont mom, injured by a lye attack that left her disfigured and legally blind, has received a face transplant at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.


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