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Three plead guilty in New York City payroll fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three women pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges arising out of what prosecutors say was a corrupt New York City payroll project that cost the city more than $600 ...
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Three U.S. Naval Academy football players charged with rape
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. Naval Academy football players have been charged with raping a female midshipman and making false statements, the school said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of sexual assault allegations in the U.S. ...
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Teachers’ Union Backs Thompson for New York Mayor
The United Federation of Teachers, one of the largest local unions in the country, on Wednesday threw its vast network of supporters behind William C. Thompson Jr. in the race for mayor of New ...
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Box Office Report Man of Steel Sails Past $150 Million in North America
The Superman tentpole, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, scored the top June debut of all time in grossing $116.1 million. Including $12 million earned last Thursday night from special Walmart screenings, the pic ended Sunday with a total $128.7 million under its ...
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Arizona wildfire threatens hundreds of homes California blaze wanes
PHOENIX/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Arizona wildfire whipped up by strong winds threatened hundreds of homes on Wednesday, even as firefighters were gaining an edge on a California blaze raging near a pristine wilderness, authorities ...
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Body pulled from Lake Michigan is Chicago university student
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Authorities have identified a body pulled from Lake Michigan on Wednesday morning as a University of Chicago student who disappeared a week ago, possibly to watch a ...
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FBI says it uses surveillance drones on U.S. soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ...
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Man sues NFL player for shooting him in the eye
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez talks on a phone during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis January 31, 2012. The New York Giants will play the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on February ...
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The Terror Con How Keeping Americans Terrified Is Making Corporations Big Bucks
That's the company, under contract with the National Security Agency, that employed whistle-blower Edward Snowden, the information security engineer whose revelation of Booz Allen's enormously profitable and pervasive spying on Americans now threatens the firm's profitability and that of its parent hedge fund, the Carlyle Group. Booz Allen, whose top personnel served in key ...
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Noam Chomsky American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
Noam Chomsky , the prominent political thinker, as attacks on democracy and the people. "Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy - which is their own population," he told the Guardian. In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as ...
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Watch Missing College Student Found Dead in Lake Michigan
A body found floating in Lake Michigan has been identified as a missing student from the University of Chicago a fisherman spotted the body thinking it was a lot in the water. Many call 911 when ...
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Former Miss America Called Street Walker by Local GOP Leader
Jun 19, 2013 5:43pm A former Miss America winner who is now a GOP candidate for Congress was called a string of profane names today, including ';street walker,'; ';love child'; and ';Miss Queen. '; Her attacker? A local Republican Party chairman in central Illinois. Erika Harold, the 2003 winner of the Miss America contest, announced two weeks ago that she ...
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Giants Padres Benches Clear Following Bumgarner Brushback Pitch
Home plate umpire Tony Randazzo #11 and Buster Posey #28 of the San Francisco Giants stops Jesus Guzman #15 from going out to the mound after Guzman almost being hit with a pitch by Madison Bumgarner #40 (not pictured) in the second inning at AT&T Park on June 19, 2013 in San Francisco. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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Apple Lands $30M Deal To Provide Every L.A. Public School Student An iPad
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) – Los Angeles’ school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found ...
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OC Roman Signs 2-Year Extension With Niners
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS Sports) — Offensive coordinator Greg Roman will be in San Francisco for at least another two seasons with the ...
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James Franco Slams ‘Spider-Man’ Reboot
Jack-of-all-trades actor, producer, teacher, author and Palo Alto-native, James Franco has taken to reviewing movies recently, penning some rather frank and revealing pieces on ';The Place Beyond the Pines'; and ';Man of ...
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Astros Get Deal Done With No. 1 Overall Pick Appel Of Stanford
HOUSTON (AP) Mark Appel received high praise from MLB commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday when the No. 1 overall pick signed with the Houston ...
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Outdoor Medical Marijuana Growing Prohibited In Concord
CONCORD (KCBS)-- Outdoor medical marijuana cultivation is no longer permitted in the city of Concord after complaints about growers. Their operations must now be moved indoors. Concord Police Chief Guy Swanger said there was disturbance calls and "issues" surrounding the outdoor ...
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San Jose Mayor Reed At ‘Utter Limit’ Of Patience With MLB On A’s Move
file suit against Major League Baseball to clear the field once and for all over a territorial rights issue. However, a court case isn't likely to be decided for years. Mayor Chuck Reed said the clock on their patience finally ran out when it comes to the relocation of the A's to San Jose and he said it was time to get the ball rolling. "Four years is my utter limit of how long ...
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Stanford Student May Provide Basketball’s Version Of ‘Moneyball’
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Two New York men accused of assembling X-ray weapon
Federal authorities accused two men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.The indictment charged 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the ...
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Did the American Medical Association make a mistake in classifying obesity a disease
Now that obesity is a disease, will there be fewer obese people? Don't count on it.According to the American Medical Association, obesity is now ...
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Car quality dinged by tech glitches survey finds
Car buyers increasingly want high-tech features like voice recognition and navigation. But they're not very forgiving of the car company when those systems fail.The top complaints in J.D. Power's closely-watched survey of new vehicle owners, released Wednesday, involved technologies that drivers are clamoring for. Voice recognition systems either didn't recognize commands or ...
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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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A New Moderate American Party Is Forming
Lovelace and Rex believe, however, that the new moderate American Party they are forming could put the majority of American voters at the helm, enabling them to steer to safer waters. The primary goal of the party will not be to address any single, self-contained issue, but to pursue targeted solutions within a broader range of concern. "The core issue is a competitive global ...
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Idaho looks to eco-business for eventual recovery
Colorado has been leading the country in developing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly ‘green economy’ using $1 billion in federal grants over the last ten years or so, the efforts have paid off and now it seems that Idaho’s leadership may be looking to do something similar.
Using a $1.25 million federal grant the state of Idaho is investigating the extent of our green economy. Officials from the Idaho Department of Labor are in the process of interviewing around 5000 large and small employers and asking them, basically, how many ‘green’ jobs they’re currently got and what their growth potential is for the coming years. Read more
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