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Alumnus finally joining fraternity he thought he was in back in '60s

Associated Press
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity is correcting a more than 40-year-old mistake by kicking it old school this weekend. Michael Do...
UAW ratifies Chrysler pact

Associated Press
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- Despite significant dissent among some of its workers, United Auto Workers members narrowly passed a four-year contract agreement with Chrysler LLC on Saturda...
Fueled by wind, fires left misery in wake

Associated Press
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they...
Supporters jubilant as ex-Philippines president is freed

Associated Press
Oct 26, 2007 11:00 pm - MANILA, Philippines -- Free for the first time in 6½ years, ousted President Joseph Estrada thanked his successor for pardoning him and vowed Friday to stay out of "dirt...
Turkey-Iraq border tense

Reuters
Oct 26, 2007 11:00 pm - ANKARA -- Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts got off to a rocky start in Ankara to avert a major offens...
Streamwood man enjoys maiden Airbus flight

Daily Herald staff report and news services
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - The world's largest jetliner made aviation history Thursday, completing its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 455 passengers, some of them ensconced ...
Warming Arctic means new assignment for Coast Guard

Associated Press
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a new frontier that the warming Arctic climate is opening to sh...
Al-Qaida turns wrath on Al-Jazeera

Associated Press
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing it of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape ...
Harry Potter first edition sells for nearly $41,000 at auction

Associated Press
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the ...
A lot of us believe in ghosts, survey says

Associated Press
Oct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicol...

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