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$10 billion tunnel would go 16 miles

Associated Press
Jan 27, 2008 10:00 pm - OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- It would be the world's longest highway tunnel, running more than 16 miles under the west end of Long Island Sound. The cost is estimated at $10 bill...
Mental decay linked to lead?

Associated Press
Jan 27, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Could it be that the "natural" mental decline that afflicts many older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? That's the provocativ...
42 plastic surgeries by age 36

Associated Press
Jan 27, 2008 10:00 pm - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted b...
Elk Grove man remembers the Pueblo

By Ames Boykin
Jan 27, 2008 10:00 pm - It's the reason Rick Rogala spent 1968 as a captive in North Korea, enduring beatings and paltry prison meals of gummy rice and turnips served in a water pail. For the E...
Farmers plan to sell water rather than grow with it

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - FRESNO, Calif. -- With water becoming increasingly precious in California, a rising number of farmers figure they can make more money by selling their water than by actu...
Spy satellite out of control

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturday. The satellite, which...
Judge sentences bilking bell ringer to night on the street

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- A Salvation Army worker who was ordered by a judge to spend a night homeless for stealing a holiday kettle containing about $250 returned to court F...
Miss America gets with the times

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday in a live show billed as the unveiling of the...
Indonesia's ex-dictator dead at 86

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Former Indonesian President Suharto, the U.S. Cold War ally who led one of the 20th century's most brutal dictatorships over 32 years that saw up t...
Ledger's body going home … with stop in L.A.?

From wire reports
Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Family members of Australian-born actor Heath Ledger claimed his body from a Manhattan funeral home Friday, The New York Times and Reuters reported, and police officers...

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