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Fla. Congressman Asks Pelosi For Football Break
Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so.
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Lou The Mule Credited With Saving Woman From Fire (AP)
AP - Jolene Solomon is beginning the new year with her life, her mule named Lou and little else. The Southern Standard in McMinnville reported Solomon had just finished eating supper on New Year's Day when Lou's braying and acting up got her attention.
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Bummer: Man's Bottom Bared In Colo Ski-lift Mishap (AP)
AP - A guy who dangled upside down from a ski lift with his bare bottom exposed probably doesn't want to hear any "ski bum" jokes. Officials at Vail Resorts in Colorado say the 48-year-old man was trying to get on the Blue Ski basin lift on New Year's Day....
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Worker Accidentally Spills Pills Into Cake Batter (AP)
AP - The Connecticut Department of Development Services has placed an employee on administrative leave after prescription pills were found in a cake served at a home for disabled people.
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Obama's Food Picks Air On Chicago TV
Who knew that President-elect barack obama was a food critic?
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Obese Man Left Helpless
A MAN weighing 34 stone was saved by his drinking friends after lying helpless on the floor of his flat in Germany for a week over the New Year.
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Jealous Wife Set Husband's Genitals Alight
A JEALOUS wife accused of setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.
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Worker Accidentally Spills Pills Into Cake Batter
The Connecticut Department of Development Services has placed an employee on administrative leave after prescription pills were found in a cake served at a home for disabled people.
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Bummer: Man's Bottom Bared In Vail Ski-lift Mishap
A guy who dangled upside down from a ski lift with his bare bottom exposed probably doesn't want to hear any "ski bum" jokes.
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Bummer: Man's Bottom Bared In Colo Ski-lift Mishap
A guy who dangled upside down from a ski lift with his bare bottom exposed probably doesn't want to hear any "ski bum" jokes. Officials at Vail Resorts in Colorado say the 48-year-old man was trying to get on the Blue Ski basin lift on New Year's Day. They...
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Tornado Watch Lifted For Metro Atlanta
A tornado watch is in effect for metro Atlanta has been lifted, according to the National Weather Service. The watch had extended for most of North Georgia, south of Toccoa and north of Newnan. The chance of rain remains at 100 percent Tuesday night, a...
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Tornado Watch For Metro Atlanta Until 11 P.m.
A tornado watch is in effect for metro Atlanta through 11 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The watch extends for most of North Georgia, south of Toccoa and north of Newnan. The chance of rain is 100 percent Tuesday night, and the Weathe...
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Buses Get Rerouted Because Of Downtown Sinkhole
Cobb Community Transit is rerouting six bus routes in downtown Atlanta because of a sinkhole next to the Sam Nunn Atlanta federal Center. The sinkhole is on one of the north-bound lanes on Forsyth Street, between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Alabama St...
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GOP Lawmaker: Hike Tobacco Tax
ATLANTA (AP) -- A Republican lawmaker plans to call for a $1 per pack increase to Georgia's tax on cigarettes.
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Strip Club Fee Debated By GA Lawmakers
ATLANTA -- A Republican state lawmaker is considering legislation that would impose a fee on Georgia strip club patrons.
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Not Interested In New Gun Law Says GA Lt. Gov.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's lieutenant governor says he doesn't like the idea of loosening the state's concealed weapons laws to allow guns in more public places.
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GEORGIA NEWS
Georgia Teachers Shocked By Fayette Plan
Teachers around Georgia are shocked that Fayette County school officials would consider asking teachers and other school employees to voluntarily give up recent pay raises to cut costs and possibly avoid layoffs. "Teachers are being hurt in this economy, t...
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Claxton City Councilman Indicted
SAVANNAH, GA -- Assistant U.S.Attorney Edmund Booth says Claxton, Georgia, City Councilman Jerome Woody was arraigned on prescription drug charges.
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2 Arrested After Ga. Standoff
MADISON, Ga. | A 13-hour hostage standoff at a Georgia motel ended peacefully Monday when a former south carolina police officer and a teenage girl surrendered, freeing his estranged wife and infant s...
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86-Year-Old Hang Glider Dies In Accident
TRENTON, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia authorities say an 86-year-old hang glider from Battle Creek, Mich., has died after hitting a tree as he tried to land.
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US NEWS
Egypt Floats Truce Plan After 42 Killed In Gaza School
GAZA (Reuters) - israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.
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Pakistani Spy Chief Says No War With India
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has said there will not be a war with India over November's militant attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, Der Spiegel reported. Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa...
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Coleman Vs. Franken: Minnesotans Say Enough Already!
As Coleman contests a recount that gave Franken the win, the people throw up their hands. The process, they say, isn't funny anymore
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Fighting Continues As Israel Considers Peace Plan
Gaza campaign enters 12th day as israel considers peace plan put forth by France and Egypt
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Israel Mulls Expelling Venezuelan Diplomat
Israel said Wednesday it may expel Venezuela's top diplomat from the country in a tit-for-tat gesture after the South American nation ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave over the increasingly bloody ground war in Gaza.
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Paging Dr. Gupta: Is A TV Star Fit To Be Surgeon General?
President-elect obama taps CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the next Surgeon General. Is he qualified?
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Ukraine: Russia Stops Sending Gas To Europe
Ukraine says Russia stopped all natural gas deliveries to Europe in gas row
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Reckless Desires (Paperback) Newly Tagged ''news''
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Obama's Food Picks Air On Chicago TV
Who knew that President-elect Barack obama was a food critic?
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OTHER NEWS
Experts Cite Crosswinds In Denver Crash
Aviation safety experts said Tuesday strong crosswinds likely were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet into a bone-jarring veer off a Denver runway, injuring 37 people.
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TV's Gupta Is Obama's Pick For Surgeon General
America's most famous television surgeon, Sanjay Gupta, is poised to take his black bag and microphone to the white house as president-elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. surgeon general.
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Former Blackwater Guards Plead Not Guilty
Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards pleaded not guilty yesterday to federal charges that they unleashed an unprovoked salvo of bullets and grenades in a busy Baghdad square in 2007, killing at least 14 Iraqi civilians and injuring 20 others.
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Fed Expects Weak Economy, Fears 'Prolonged Retraction'
The economy is set to remain weak well into this year, and could even be at risk of entering a "prolonged contraction," leaders of the Federal Reserve concluded last month, as they agreed to take aggressive new steps to contain the recession.
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Rail Firm Accused In Fatal California Train Crash; Victims' Attorney Says Complaints About Engineer Were Ignored
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 -- Attorneys for more than a dozen victims in a deadly commuter rail crash accused the engineer's employer of ignoring complaints that he regularly used his cellphone while operating trains.
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Experts Say Crosswinds Were Probably A Factor In Denver Plane Crash That Injured 37
Strong crosswinds probably were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet off a Denver runway, aviation safety experts said yesterday.
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An Amazing Event Not To Be Here For
Inauguration Day: Millions of people, thousands of buses, mobs on the Metro, winter weather, epic potty lines. And maybe, from afar, a glimpse of history.
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Refugee Turns Rep. Out Of New Orleans
Thirty years after fleeing his home in Vietnam, and becoming a leader in post-Katrina New Orleans Anh "Joseph" Cao is a congressman.
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Gates Estimates 2009 War Costs At $136B
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost $136 billion if Defense Secretary Robert Gates is right.
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NEWS ON IRAQ
US: Body Count Nation
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Navy Sets Hearing On Status Of Missing Gulf War Pilot
The Navy has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow to review the status of a Navy pilot who has been missing since his plane was shot down in Iraq on the first night of the Persian Gulf War.
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Employer Says U.S. Troops Shot Iraqi TV Producer in Cold Blood'
BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 -- The employer of an Iraqi television producer shot and wounded by U.S. troops on New Year's Day disputed the military's assertion Saturday that she had acted suspiciously and had failed to heed warnings before the troops opened fire.
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U.S. Deaths In Iraq Down 66 Percent From Last Year
American military deaths in Iraq have dropped dramatically this year, a trend observers attribute to the lasting effects of the U.S.-led surge offensive, more robust Iraqi security performance and civilians' disgust with warfare.
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U.S.: Networks' Int'l News Coverage At Record Low In 2008
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) - Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual r...
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IRAQ: It Could Be More Than Three Years To US Departure
CAIRO, Dec 22 (IPS) - Washington and Baghdad signed a security agreement earlier this month allowing the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Iraq for another three years. But while Baghdad officials hailed the pact as the "beginning of the end" of ...
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