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Disney’s new diet for kids: No more junk food ads
NEW YORK (AP) — There won’t be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons. The Walt Disney Co. Tuesday became the first major media company to ban ads for junk fo...
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Gay marriage ban backers look to US Supreme Court
SAN FRANCISCO — Gay marriage took another step Tuesday on its march to the U.S. Supreme Court, when a federal appeals court that struck down California’s ban on same-sex unions refused to reconside...
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Walker survives recall election in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall challenge Tuesday, winning both the right to finish his term and a voter endorsement of his strategy to curb state spending, which in...
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Poll: Political Independents outweigh partisans
WASHINGTON — Call it a pox on both the Republican and Democratic houses. More Americans now call themselves politically independent than at any point in the last 75 years, according to a new pol...
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Associated Press Television satellite trucks set up Monday outside the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., in preparation for the start of the child sexual abuse trial of former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on Tuesday.
Jury selection begins today in Sandusky trial
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Picking 12 people to decide Jerry Sandusky’s fate in the child-molestation case that brought down coach Joe Paterno and scandalized Penn State could prove a monumental task in a c...
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Wal-Mart vote shows dissent against execs
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart’s final shareholder vote for its board of directors showed unprecedented dissent against key executives and board members, including CEO Mike Duke, in the wake of allegations of...
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Associated Press Marion Sandler attends a shareholders meeting in Oakland, Calif. Sandler, a business executive who ran Golden West Financial Corp. with her husband for 40 years before selling the mortgage lender to Wachovia Corp., has died. She was 81. Sandler's family said she died Friday at her San Francisco home.
Exec Sandler founded ProPublica charity
SAN FRANCISCO — Marion Sandler, a business executive who ran Golden West Financial Corp. with her husband for 40 years before selling the mortgage lender to Wachovia Corp. for $24 billion, has died...
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Associated Press Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (left) shakes hands with J&D Manufacturing employee Steve Poppe of Eau Claire, Wis., during a visit Monday to the Altoona, Wis., company. The governor scheduled campaign stops at six of the state's largest cities on the day before Wisconsin's historic recall election.
Wisconsin recall goes to voters
MADISON, Wis. — The battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s agenda has attracted millions of dollars from out of state, campaign volunteers from across the country and months of concentrated attention from...
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Associated Press A P2-V Neptune air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire July 13, 2006, southwest of Elko, Nev. An air tanker dropping retardant on a remote wildfire along the Utah-Nevada line crashed Sunday, killing crew members Todd Tompkins and Ronnie Chambless.
Firefighting plane cause for concern
SALT LAKE CITY — Once a Cold War-era submarine attack plane, the Lockheed P-2V has for years been both a mainstay of the nation’s aerial firefighting arsenal and a cause for concern. Flying in t...
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Associated Press Kevin Costner leaves federal court Monday in New Orleans. Stephen Baldwin has sued fellow actor Costner over their investments in a device that BP used in trying to clean up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Trial opens in Costner lawsuit
NEW ORLEANS — Kevin Costner’s fame is the only reason fellow Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin and another person sued Costner over their investments in an oil cleanup device tried out after BP’s spi...
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