All Stories from August 17, 2014 (Change date)
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A's for everyoneAug 17, 2014 5:01 am - Grade deflation is dead. Long live grade inflation! Starting around the mid-20th century, a pandemic of meaninglessly high grades swept the nation. Steadily, the Gentlem...
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'Best ... worst of times' applies today as wellAug 17, 2014 5:01 am - Charles Dickens said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." And in my humble opinion, we could say the same thing today. What do we celebrate? Robin Wil...
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Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq's largest damAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq - Aided by U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes, Kurdish forces Sunday wrested back part of Iraq's largest dam from Islamic militants who had captured...
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Man with more than 100 facial piercings denied entry to DubaiAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A heavily tattooed German man whose face is embellished with horn implants and more than 100 piercings said Sunday he was ...
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Police, protesters clash ahead of Ferguson curfewAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - FERGUSON, Mo. - Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by...
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Gillaspie making case to be White Sox mainstay at 3BAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - By now, Matt Davidson was expected to be the White Sox' starting third baseman and another young piece of the burgeoning core. Davidson has the prototypical power bat, a...
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Police deploy tear gas to impose Ferguson curfewAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - FERGUSON, Mo. - The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, ended with tear gas and seven arrests, after police dressed in riot gear used armored ve...
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'Turtles' tops weak debut for 'Expendables 3'Aug 17, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Moviegoers continued to shell out for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," while Sylvester Stallone's action ensemble "The Expendables 3" was easily outgunned in i...
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Woman cited for climbing into zoo's giraffe penAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - MADISON, Wis. - Police say a California woman was cited after climbing into the giraffe exhibit at a Madison zoo and getting kicked in the face. A police report says 24-...
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Hitzeman: Carpentersville SUV ramming case set for trialAug 17, 2014 1:01 am - A Chicago woman accused of running down two teens in Carpentersville with her sport utility vehicle last year because they were bullying her nephew is scheduled for tria...