Nation and World
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Stocks fall despite GM earnings, consumer confidence
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street showed further signs of stability Tuesday, rising sharply on strong earnings at General Motors Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. even as investors ...
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Audit faults parishes
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- A handful of parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego deliberately concealed or inappropriately handled about $500,000 in funds in sometimes "pur...
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Thompson's idea of law and order isn't like Marshall Dillon'sJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Both common sense and the law of averages escape presidential candidates, especially Republicans looking to assert their conservative bona fides. It's a shame that Fred ...
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FCC OKs ariwaves auctionsJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission Tuesday voted to shake up the wireless market by approving a set of ground-rules for a big airwaves auction that...
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Archaeologists in Rome dig up ancient tannery threatened by railway} works
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - ROME (AP) -- Archaeologists excavating an ancient tannery believed to be the largest ever found in Rome said Tuesday they might need to move the entire work site, whi...
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U.S. monthly death toll in Iraq at lowest point in 8 months
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD (AP) -- American military deaths for July rose to 73 on Tuesday with the report of a Marine killed in combat, but the toll was still the lowest in eight month...
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Vested interest in war ending badly On July 25, Jim Orme wrote a letter to the Fence Post, "Media's negative coverage of the war." It was a well-written letter. However,...
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Study: Lust beats love as cause of sex
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivati...
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Today's birthdaysJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Today's birthdays Aug. 1 Nancy Lopez (45), LPGA Brad Faxon (46), PGA Bart Conner (46), Olympic gymnast Darryl Hall (41), NFL Pat Carter (41), NFL Gregg Jefferies (40), ...
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Will we be food- dependent, too? When we started allowing our companies and corporations to move to India and China a few years back, little did we know that it would st...