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Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks
WASHINGTON — Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools ar...
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Dow ends above 14,000 for 1st time since 2007
NEW YORK — The Dow closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years. It was just a number on a board, but it was enough to raise the hopes of some investors and cause oth...
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Associated Press New York Mayor Edward I. Koch waves to onlookers as he arrives in 1987 at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Center. Koch died Friday from congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. He was 88.
Fiesty former mayor Koch dies
NEW YORK — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a ...
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Photo of accused abductor released
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — The standoff between police and a gunman accused of holding a kindergartner hostage in an underground bunker dragged into a fourth day on Friday, as authorities sought to conti...
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Condemned killer asks parole board for mercy
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lawyers for a condemned man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multistate crime spree asked Ohio’s parole board Thursday to recommend mercy, saying ...
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Associated Press Valerie Beerbower and husband Mike appear in 2009 at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, Ohio. Beerbower was a hot, bothered mess the night her husband, Mike, proposed during what he envisioned as a special evening taking in the sights of Washington, D.C.
Marriage proposals gone wrong
NEW YORK — Proposing marriage has become an industry of its own with professional planners, flash mobs for hire and elaborate, homegrown surprises to make the moment memorable. And let’s not forget...
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How to avoid being hacked overseas
WASHINGTON — Some tips to help business travelers protect their laptops and mobile devices from spying — or at least limit the damage of hacking — while in China or other nations that may want to s...
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Associated Press Republican Chuck Hagel (center), a former two-term senator and President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Pentagon, arrives at the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two former committee chairmen, Democrat Sam Nunn (right) and Republican John Warner, introduced Hagel.
Republicans hammer defense nominee Hagel
WASHINGTON — Republican senators hammered former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearing Thursday on issues ranging from Israel and Iran to his support for a group that advocates the elimi...
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Congress sends bill to Obama averting default
WASHINGTON — Congress sent President Barack Obama drama-free legislation on Thursday raising the debt ceiling, averting a government default and putting off the next tax-and-spending clash between ...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Sharelle Wilkinson pumps unleaded gas into her Kia Sorento on Thursday night at a BP gas station on Lone Oak Road. Wilkinson paid $3.39 per gallon.
Gas price surge starts early
NEW YORK — Gasoline prices are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher. The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon, and within a f...
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