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Chargers, Freeney agree to 2-year deal
The San Diego Chargers have agreed to a two-year deal with star pass rusher Dwight Freeney that could be worth $13.35 million.
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Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It's all about the odds.
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Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot
It's all about the odds.
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Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.
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Thurston County woman wins $75K for dog bite
A Thurston County jury has awarded $75,000 to a woman bit by a neighbor's dog.
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Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.
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Bernanke forecasts gains from computer technology
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.
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No 10 issues 'loon slur' denial
No 10 denies that "anyone in Downing Street" made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as "mad, swivel-eyed loons".
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VIDEO: Cuban golf courses no longer 'elitist'
Five decades after Fidel Castro ordered Cuba's golf courses to be closed down because he considered them "elitist", the island's communist government has approved the construction of a luxury golf resort.
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Surveying the Region’s Battered Beaches
As summer and warm weather loom, The New York Times looked at the state of the region’s battered public beaches, in three states and hundreds of miles of coastline.
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Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing
An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.
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Russia's Karjakin wins Norway chess tournament
Russia's Sergey Karjakin has won the (EURO)100,000 ($130,000) Norway chess tournament after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
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Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing
NEWARK, N.J (AP) — An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'
The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel.
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel.
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Money tangle: The IRS and its tea party tempest
The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.
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Police: Boy, 6, kicked by pony on Pa. farm dies
Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he was kicked in the throat by a pony on a south-central Pennsylvania farm.
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Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee
Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.
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Cayman Islands ex-premier denies new allegations
The former premier of the Cayman Islands who faces charges in a corruption probe is denying allegations that he donated $1 million to a Caribbean university to obtain an honorary PhD.
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Man dies after boat capsized in Tulalip Bay
A man has died and a woman is in the hospital after their boat capsized in Tulalip Bay north of Everett Friday night. At about 10:45 p.m., someone called 911 to report that they could hear people screaming for help in the water, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Nate Littlejohn, of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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