Nation and World
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Bond market doubt drives stocks down
Feb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street finished a dismal week with a mixed performance Friday as investors grappled with fears about insurers of distressed mortgage-backed bonds and an...
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Poll: War hurting economy
Feb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The heck with Congress' big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession -- and most people think we're in one -- is to get the country out o...
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Three women die in school shooting
Feb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - BATON ROUGE, La. -- A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students with a .357 revolver in a classroom at a vocational college Friday, then committed suicide, police sai...
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Grainger accused of over-billing the U.S.Feb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - W.W. Grainger Inc., the Lake Forest-based building maintenance supplies distributor, was sued by a former employee-turned-whistleblower claiming the company over-billed ...
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Envoy: Iran building second nuclear plantFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Iran has started building a second atomic power plant in an oil-rich region near the border with Iraq, Iran's Ambassador to Russia was quoted as saying Friday ...
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Man acquitted of being Saddam's spyFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- An Iraqi-born American citizen was acquitted Friday of being an informant for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but was convicted of immigration viol...
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Sugar refinery blast kills at least 4 workers
Feb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. -- Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass ...
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Analysts cool on prospects for PlayboyFeb 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Though long-suffering Playboy Enterprises Inc. reported a tiny quarterly revenue increase last fall, the company hasn't convinced analysts improvement will be sustained....
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January retail sales were lowest in four decades
Feb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The nation's retailers delivered more evidence of a stumbling economy Thursday, as merchants reported their weakest January performance in nearly four decade...
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Blacks back Barack; white women prefer Hillary
Feb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Though insisting race and gender have little to do with it, many Democrats are supporting the presidential candidate who looks most like them. Super Tuesda...