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McDonald's expects profits to exceed projections

By Dave Carpenter Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- McDonald's hot streak keeps on going. The world's largest fast-food chain said Friday its third-quarter profits will top Wall Street's estimates following ano...
Anger at U.S. rising, Turkey plans Iraq incursion

Reuters
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - TUNCELI, Turkey -- Kurdish separatist rebels said Friday they were crossing back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said it was preparing to attac...
U.S. Steel permit a 'call to arms' for lawmakers

Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - GARY, Ind. -- Illinois lawmakers are vowing to fight a proposed U.S. Steel Corp. water discharge permit that they fear could relax or eliminate limits on toxic chemicals...
Attorney says co-defendant to plea, testify in O.J. Simpson armed robbery case

Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Accused of being one of five men who joined O.J. Simpson in a hotel-room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers, Charles Cashmore will plead guil...
GE sees growth in 'solid' quarter

Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- General Electric's profit rose 14 percent in the third quarter on strong global sales of airplane engines, locomotives and other equipment that have ...
Police: Mom bought gun for student

Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Tired of being bullied, an awkward, overweight middle-schooler left his peers behind last year in favor of home-schooling. But if the bullying ceased,...
Eight former guards, nurse cleared in boot camp death

Associated Press
Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- Eight former boot camp workers were acquitted of manslaughter Friday in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was videotaped being punched and kicked. ...
Briefs: Split up Motorola, Icahn says again

Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Activist investor Carl Icahn said Friday he still thinks Schaumburg-based mobile handset maker Motorola should be split up and the company's handheld busines...
Brother of school shooter arrested

Associated Press
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- The brother of a high school student who shot and wounded four people before killing himself was led out of his home in handcuffs by police officers Thursda...
British novelist flush with pride at Nobel award

Reuters
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- British novelist Doris Lessing, who found out about her Nobel Prize for literature from a reporter waiting outside her home, said it gave her the "royal flush"...

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