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For conventions, TV down, social media up
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — TV viewership for last week’s Republican National Convention dropped sharply from 2008. But the convention was a hit online and on social networks, the latest evidence of the p...
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Associated Press Bagpipers from VMI marched in the Labor Day parade in Buena Vista, Va. on Monday. The parade is the first big political event of the season in the Shenandoah Valley.
This year’s Labor Day marked with parades, political speeches
TOLEDO, Ohio — Parades, picnics and politicians celebrated the American worker on Labor Day, with President Barack Obama seeking votes from Ohio union members and rivals for Senate seats marching i...
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Oil and gas production up after Isaac
The nation’s oil and gas hub along the Gulf Coast is slowly coming back to life in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac. Offshore oil platforms are beginning to ramp up production as crews are retur...
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Associated Press A shopper pushes a trolley through the clearance section of a store Aug. 22 in Chicago. During the recession, retailers used sales to lure cash-strapped Americans into stores. But that strategy has backfired.
Deal junkies hurt stores’ profits after recession
NEW YORK — Joelle Daddino is making it difficult for stores to make money. Like many Americans who’ve grown accustomed to deep discounts, Daddino has become so obsessed with sales that she refuses ...
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Associated Press People attend to one of five rescued pilot whales Sunday at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Institute in Fort Pierce, Fla. The five whales were among a group of 22 whales beached in South Florida on Saturday. The rest died of natural causes or had to be euthanized.
5 beached whales doing better at Florida center
MIAMI — Veterinarians fed fish drinks to five rescued pilot whales Sunday and kept a close eye on them, trying to nurse the mammals back to health so they can one day return to the ocean. The fi...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop on the campus of the University of Colorado on Sunday in Boulder, Colo.
Obama hits back at Romney Obamacare slam
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a “Romney doesn’t care” label on his rival’s health-care views Sunday and said Republ...
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Associated Press Dr. Bruce Stowell examines patient Robert Busch June 19 at his office in Grants Pass, Ore. Stowell is among many doctors in rural areas who have capped the numbers of Medicare patients they take due to low reimbursement levels.
Aging Americans
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Nina Musselman had no trouble finding a family doctor when she retired to rural Oregon nine years ago to be closer to her children. But then that doctor moved away, leaving her ...
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Associated Press Officials remove evidence from a Pathmark grocery store where three people died in an early-morning shooting in Old Bridge, N.J., on Friday. The motive is being investigated.
Ex-Marine tweeted in 2009 about killing his co-workers
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — Unhappy with his life as a Marine stationed in California, Terence Tyler posed a question three years ago on Twitter: “is it normal to want to kill ALL of ur coworkers?” Strug...
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Associated Press Lainy Serpas lowers her head into her lap Saturday as she tours Braithwaite, La., after Hurricane Isaac passed through. Thousands of evacuees couldn't return home to flooded low-lying areas of Louisiana.
As Isaac pushes north, coast seeking power
NEW ORLEANS — As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four tornadoes, some on the Gulf Coast were i...
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Google Fiber could widen digital divide
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — She has no Internet at home, so Robinett Foreman sweats over lost computer time at school. The 17-year-old is one of 11 students out of 18 without home access in her business ...
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