NEW YORK – Val Bonner planned for a decade to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on her 50th birthday, and this year she got her wish Thursday, joining throngs of holiday revelers in Manhattan cheering the giant balloons and thousands of marchers. “It’s just fabulous — I cried when …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A homicide bomber driving an oil tanker detonated his explosives outside an Afghan government office during a provincial council meeting Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 42, officials said. The attack in this former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan ripped through the council office, flattened …
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DETROIT – Two major newspapers will be making sweeping changes to the way news is read in Detroit, following the path of smaller papers across the country that have slashed print circulation and shifted focus online to stay in business. The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News annouced their …
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea claimed Thursday that it has arrested a South Korean-hired agent it strongly suggested was tasked with assassinating the country’s absolute leader, Kim Jong Il. The North’s Ministry of State Security said in a statement it had arrested a North Korean on a “terrorist mission” …
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NEW YORK – A civil rights group sued the New York Police Department on Monday seeking to learn more about a plan to use license plate readers and a network of 3,000 surveillance cameras to help protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats. The New York Civil Liberties Union claims the …
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CHICAGO – A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy’s haunting lament: “I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer.” It’s a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America’s most beloved, if maligned, …
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PORTLAND, Ore. – A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to go with his life sentence. Tremayne Durham, 33, of New York City, admitted last month that he fatally shot Adam Calbreath, 39, of …
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FORT WRIGHT, Ky. – Police in northern Kentucky arrested a woman who officers say traded sex for gasoline. Police in Fort Wright set up a prostitution sting and said one of the suspects they arrested engaged in sex for a $100 gasoline card and other gifts. Angela Eversole, 34, of …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections. The Associated Press has learned the change will become effective Monday, on the eve …
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DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic and sexually oriented text messages with a top aide, contradicting their denials in court that they had romantic ties, the Detroit Free Press reports. In a story on its Web site Wednesday night, the newspaper quotes from exchanges between Kilpatrick and chief …
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