This wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of February, after the $787 billion stimulus was approved, the Obama administration predicted that unemployment would average only 8.1 percent this year. Indeed, in February the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent. Yet, unemployment now stands at 10.2 percent and keeps rising. …
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INDIANAPOLIS – Marco Andretti poked across the finish line, his family curse firmly intact at the Brickyard. Somehow, you just knew the Indianapolis 500 would end this way. While it was hard to complain about Tony Kanaan ending his own Indy heartache with a hugely popular win on Sunday, you …
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MUMBAI, India – More than 100 witnesses, including U.S. FBI agents, will testify at the trial of the man police say is the only surviving gunman in the bloody Mumbai siege, Indian prosecutors said Saturday. Five foreign experts will present evidence against Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam …
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LAGARTO, Texas – A fire that may have been ignited by electrical lines injured one firefighter and destroyed about 34 homes on Thursday in Live Oak County. The Texas Forest Service said a volunteer firefighter was taken to a hospital in Alice with burns. Two people suffered minor burns and …
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GENEVA – The world racism conference looked beyond the Middle East on Wednesday to concerns over the economic crisis, with speakers warning that increased joblessness could lead to greater intolerance of foreigners if governments fail to act. A day after more than 100 countries passed a declaration of solidarity, speakers …
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former Miss West Virginia has won a $7.2 million verdict against nine Internet companies and individuals who tried to sell pornographic videos they falsely claimed featured her. A jury in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg on Wednesday ordered each defendant to pay Allison Williams $800,000 for …
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department was considering whether to bring a detained Somali pirate to the U.S., Kenya or Somalia to face charges after the harrowing rescue of a cargo ship’s U.S. captain. The FBI was preparing a case Monday, one of three possible options in what to do with …
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TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. – A northeastern Pennsylvania woman has been charged in the alcohol poisoning death of her 6-month-old baby. Wyoming County prosecutors say Jessica Minor of Montrose, Pa., gave alcohol to her son, Mason, in 2007 to stop him from crying. The baby later died. Wyoming County District Attorney George …
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HARLINGEN, Texas – This week should have been a joyous time for Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl. But the friends and relatives whose cars lined the quiet street in front of her home in a quiet subdivision Tuesday instead were …
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ATLANTA – About a third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there, a federal health official said Saturday. But investigations indicate many cases are getting the illness here, and that it probably still is spreading, …
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