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Not all :) as informal writing creeps into teen assignments

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other inf...
Democrats fear divisiveness is working in McCain's favor

By David Broder
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - For battle-weary Democrats, the big news out of Pennsylvania is pretty simple: Their nightmare continues. In the seven weeks between the Texas and Ohio primaries in ear...
States consider tolls on freeways

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. -- It's not a popular idea, but putting tolls on interstates is gaining traction in cash-strapped states such as New Jersey. Lawmakers here are weighing to...
Virtual fence along border scrapped

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - TUCSON, Ariz. -- The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted "virtual fence" on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to a...
McCain wants Obama ad stopped

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - INEZ, Ky. -- Republican John McCain on Wednesday asked the North Carolina GOP not to run a television ad that brings up the controversial former pastor of Democratic pre...
Study says humans nearly became extinct

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to s...
The challenges that Indiana primary poses for Clinton, Obama

By David Beery Daily Herald Staff
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - For the first time in memory, presidential politics may lap the Indy 500 as May's hottest event in Indiana. Pennsylvania -- like Texas, Ohio and the two dozen Super Tues...
Interrogation tactics concerned FBI, director says

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday recalled warning the Justice Department and the Pentagon that some U.S. interrogation methods used against terrori...
Thousands flock to exhumed body of saint Padre Pio

Reuters
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy - The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it we...
Spring melt to soothe parched West

Associated Press
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - GRANT, Colo. -- Hydrologist Joe Messina pushes an aluminum tube straight down into the spongy springtime snow in a mountainside forest, crouches to read the markings on ...

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