Articles filed under Associated Press
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What comes after the Wii?Jan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Nintendo Corp.'s Wii game console is a breakout hit in large part because users control the play by waving around a motion-sensing wireless controller. Many...
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New England gets winter blastJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- New England's first major winter storm of 2008 snarled the Monday morning commute with heavy snow and closed hundreds of schools. Following the snowiest Decemb...
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American, five others slain in attack on luxury Afghan hotelJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in the most brazen attack ye...
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Reserves lead NIU to winJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB, Ill. -- Jarvis Nichols came off the bench to score a game-high 21 points to lead Northern Illinois past Toledo 78-62 at the NIU Convocation Center Sunday afterno...
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GM finance chief: Mortgage woes not spreading to auto loansJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- General Motors Corp.'s top finance executive said Sunday he doesn't see the subprime mortgage mess spreading into auto loans at the company's former credit ar...
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Minn. company recalls 188,000 pounds of beef over E. coli concernsJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota meatpacker has recalled about 188,000 pounds of ground beef patties and some other products because of E. coli bacteria concerns. Rochester Me...
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6-year-old dolphin dies at Brookfield ZooJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Micco, pronounced MEE'-coh, a six-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin at Brookfield Zoo, has died. Zoo officials say they believe a respiratory infection killed the you...
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U.S. to sell $20 bil in weapons to Saudi ArabiaJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Iran, Mideast peace and democracy in the region topped the agenda for President Bush during talks Monday with ally Saudi Arabia. Bush's first vis...
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IBM reports stellar quarter despite perceptions of economic weaknessJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- The fourth quarter usually is the best time of the year for IBM Corp., but rarely does it look this good. The technology company said Monday that its earnings ...
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MySpace adding new measures to thwart child predatorsJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- MySpace.com has agreed with more than 45 states to add extensive measures to combat sexual predators. An official familiar with the multistate agreement ...