Articles filed under Associated Press
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Police searching teacher and boy, 13, say pair may have fled to MexicoNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. -- A female teacher and a 13-year-old boy believed to be on the run may have crossed the California border into Mexico, a police investigator said Friday. Pa...
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Cook County prosecutors want e-mail related to fraud caseNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Cook County prosecutors are demanding any e-mail correspondence between Governor Rod Blagojevich's administration and an auditing firm hired to investigate a contractor ...
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Mukasey's all you get, Bush warnsNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- No Mukasey? No attorney general. That seemed to be President Bush's message Thursday during a double dose of remarks in which he complained that the Democr...
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Flap erupts over Rumsfeld memoNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday sympathized with Arab-Americans who took offense to a memo that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote saying that "oil...
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Check contents of packagesNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - "You get what you pay for!" the saying goes. And then there's a slightly more modern version that we've come up with that we feel is more in keeping with the times: "You...
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Exxon Mobil profit dips 10 percent in quarterNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - HOUSTON -- Even Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest publicly traded oil company and king of record corporate profits, couldn't overcome the negative effect higher cru...
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Viacom's profit climbs 80 percent in 3rd-qtr on sale of Famous MusicNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Viacom Inc., the media conglomerate that owns MTV, reported an 80 percent jump in third-quarter earnings Friday, boosted by a gain from the sale of a music p...
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Should schools supply contraceptives?Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational,...
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Iraq war veteran pleads guilty to stealing military gearNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - URBANA -- An Iraq war veteran pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing body armor, night-vision equipment and other gear while serving in the Illinois National Guard. Christo...
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Reid needs another leave of absenceNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - What happened to Andy Reid's sons is every parent's nightmare, not just those who happen to be NFL coaches. Reid is not the first coach whose kid has been arrested. And ...