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Whistler, British Columbia _? A men’s luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia died Friday after a crash during training, an Olympic official with direct knowledge of the situation said. The death cast a shocking pall over the Vancouver Olympics hours before the opening ceremony. The …
Salt Lake Tribune · February 12, 2010, 12:50 PM (PST)
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WASHINGTON- Forty-nine states have snow now, from the Gulf Coast’s Redneck Riviera to the skyscrapers of Dallas. The lone holdout? Hawaii. Although snow falls every winter on Hawaii’s two tallest volcanoes, the National Weather Service in Honolulu said there was no snow in the state Friday. Snow …
Boston Globe · February 12, 2010, 12:43 PM (PST)
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(AP) – CANFIELD, Ohio – A group of monks wants to turn a motel once used by a prostitution ring into a religious retreat. Monks from the Syro-Russian Orthodox Catholic Church have opened the Monastery Inn, offering low-cost housing and outreach services in what had been the Canfield Colonial Motel …
MLive.com · February 12, 2010, 1:11 PM (PST)
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MIAMI (AP) – Citing weak evidence, a federal judge on Friday acquitted two former employees of fallen financier Allen Stanford on charges they illegally shredded thousands of company documents to hinder the federal probe into an alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme. After a nearly two-week trial and two …
Findlaw.com · February 12, 2010, 1:19 PM (PST)
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GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A mentally disabled woman was fed vegetable oil, spices, detergent, urine and medications, then forced to write a suicide note, stabbed to death, wrapped in plastic, put in a garbage can and dumped in a school parking lot, police and relatives said Friday as six people were …
Morris County Daily Record · February 12, 2010, 1:11 PM (PST)
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NEW YORK – Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was hospitalized Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering chest pains. Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds were placed inside the artery as part of a medical procedure …
Herald Tribune · February 12, 2010, 8:18 AM (PST)
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PHOENIX (AP) – Defeated just two years ago as the Republican presidential candidate and with his bonafides as a true conservative again being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a struggle to get even his party’s nomination for another term in the Senate. Conservatives, independents and Tea …
WWL-TV · February 12, 2010, 1:04 PM (PST)
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NEW YORK- Shares of McAfee Inc. jumped Friday after the maker of security software posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue. The company’s profit, meanwhile, met Wall Street’s expectations, and McAfee’s board approved a stock buyback program of up to $500 million. Looking ahead, the …
Boston Globe · February 12, 2010, 12:57 PM (PST)
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The astronauts of the International Space Station will finally have a room with a view — a real view of the splendor just outside their ship. Spacewalking astronauts hook up new chamber to the International Space Station. Two spacewalkers from the visiting space shuttle Endeavour , Robert Behnken …
ABC News · February 12, 2010, 12:43 PM (PST)
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BERLIN – Roman Polanski missed his own party, but was still the center of attention Friday as his first movie in five years made its debut at the Berlin film festival. "The Ghost Writer," based on a novel by Robert Harris, stars Pierce Brosnan as a former British prime minister, Olivia Williams as …
AccessAtlanta · February 12, 2010, 1:04 PM (PST)
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