All Stories from February 4, 2014 (Change date)
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Investment expert: Good year aheadFeb 04, 2014 8:12 am - Besides Arctic temperatures, tough commutes and endless shoveling, we can blame the Polar Vortex on something else: stock market volatility. Jack Ablin, executive vice p...
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Guards, electric fences didn’t stop Mich. prison breakFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - IONIA, Mich. — A convicted killer who authorities say managed to evade guards and peel through two electrically charged fences to escape a Michigan prison was tripped up...
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FDA launching anti-smoking campaign aimed at youthFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is using ads that depict yellow teeth and wrinkled skin to show the nation’s at-risk youth the costs associated with cigare...
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NYC mayor makes debut on ‘The Daily Show’Feb 04, 2014 8:08 am - NEW YORK — Bill de Blasio took part in a New York City political rite of passage Monday, appearing on a late-night talk show to tout his record and poke fun at a few gaf...
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Cabin fever sets in amid relentless cold, snowFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - ST. LOUIS — T.J. Rutherford loves to golf, even in the winter. Just not this winter. With single-digit temperatures and subzero wind chills becoming the norm from the Mi...
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Hoffman among thousands of addiction victimsFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - LOS ANGELES — Philip Seymour Hoffman suffered from a chronic medical condition that required ongoing treatment. An admitted drug addict who first sought professional hel...
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NY police: Hoffman’s heroin didn’t have additiveFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - NEW YORK — Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the...
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AP: Changes sought for Endangered Species ActFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - BILLINGS, Mont. — Republicans in Congress are calling for an overhaul to the Endangered Species Act, but experts say broad changes to one of the nation’s cornerstone env...
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Case challenging gay-marriage ban heard in Va.Feb 04, 2014 8:08 am - NORFOLK, Va. — In a case that could give gay marriage its first foothold in the old Confederacy, a federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia’s ban on...
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Christie says he sought answers on lane closuresFeb 04, 2014 8:08 am - TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie said he started asking staff members to get more details about traffic jams in the northern New Jersey town of Fort Lee last year soo...