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Summer vacations aren’t just for school kids – they’re for TV stars too. With most shows on hiatus now, the beauties of the small screen have headed to the ocean where they’re showing a lot of skin. And while they look great on their shows, they look even better in …

WIMBLEDON, England – Maria Sharapova won seven straight games during one stretch but let a late lead slip away Wednesday and lost to Gisela Dulko, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 in the second round at Wimbledon. Sharapova saved four match points in a wild, 14-point final game. But on the fifth she …

It was a case of the wrong text at the wrong time. A Florida teen suspected of burglary was nabbed after he text-messaged his alleged accomplice who was being interrogated by police, the Palm Beach Post reported. Cops were responding to a call about a broken apartment window Tuesday night …

LONDON – People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday. The U.N. agency issued new guidance advising doctors to start giving patients AIDS drugs a year or two earlier than usual. The advice could double the number …

MIAMI – A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. An arrest reports says 31-year-old Claudia De La Rosa was charged Thursday with making a false report of planting a bomb. Miami International Airport officials received a …

With President Obama staking his future on passing universal health care reform, the end game has begun. On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office put forth that Obamacare would cost $940 billion over 10 years, but would actually bring down deficit spending over the same period of time because health care …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Running on (Almost) Empty A Minnesota truck driver is miffed at the Post Office for sending him 300 miles with nothing in his trailer but a post card. Roy Combs says he arrived in Louisville expecting to haul mail back to Chicago …

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. – The military says a commercial fisherman reeled in an Air Force missile in the Gulf of Mexico. A military bomb squad met him at the shore in Florida to remove sensitive technology from the projectile and dispose of it. Local authorities initially said the missile was …

NEWARK, N.J. – Broadway Kevin waited in the auction holding pen, a successful harness horses whose life was now worth less than the cost to take care of him. If the local Amish farmers bought him, he’d spend his last years pulling carriages over the countryside. If the meat procurers …

– Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett was born on February 2, 1947, in Corpus Christi, Texas. – She enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin, where she planned to study microbiology, but later changed her major to art. – During the 1960s, Fawcett guest starred on a number of popular …