June 20, 2013
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Associated Press Paul McCartney performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Friday in Manchester, Tenn.
Paul McCartney carries the weight at Bonnaroo
MANCHESTER, Tennessee — Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo. A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Pau...
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Associated Press Steve Libert, president of Great Lakes Exploration Group, stands near the Traverse City, Mich., marina on June 6 on Lake Michigan. On Saturday, Libert led a diving expedition to an underwater site in northern Lake Michigan where archaeologists and technicians will try to determine whether timbers he found while diving in 2001 are what remain of 17th century French explorer La Salle's legendary Griffin.
Expedition hopes to find lost ship
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher’s stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the Missis...
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McConnell faults Obama as foe’s albatross in 2014
LEXINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took political potshots Saturday at President Barack Obama, saying his expertise at “the blame game” allowed him to win re-election to a se...
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Proposal lists glade cress as threatened
LOUISVILLE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a new rule that would classify the tiny Kentucky glade cress as a threatened species. The Courier-Journal reports the agency is solic...
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Mysterious bee deaths causing controversy
ST. LOUIS — One of every three bites of food we consume depends on pollination by honeybees, but these overlooked contributors to our food system are continuing to die in stubbornly perplexing ways...
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Messages seek to sway Nixon on abortion bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Numerous messages are urging Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to sign legislation that would require doctors be in the room for the initial dose of a drug used in medical abortions. ...
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Hospital investigates surgery photos
URBANA, Ill. — A central Illinois hospital has investigated three instances of employees using personal cellphones to photograph patients during surgery. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports th...
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Associated Press Cyclists ride on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on June 11. The city joins New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco this year in turning loose the nation's largest bike-sharing programs, Divvy, catapulting what was once a way for smaller cities to showcase their eco-friendly qualities into the mainstream transportation options of the country's very largest urban expanses.
Chicago joins bike-sharing cities
CHICAGO — The newest piece of Chicago’s vast transit puzzle will not rumble between skyscrapers on its 100-year-old elevated rail lines or utilize its fleet of hybrid buses. The city is turning to ...
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Elizabethtown mayor dies at 54
ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Mayor Tim Walker, whose decades-long service to the central Kentucky city included stints as a firefighter and city councilman, died Friday at Hardin Memorial Hospital...
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Associated Press Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks at a news conference Friday in Chicago after attending a meeting with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton in an attempt to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation $97 billion pension crisis.
Dems to try pension bill again
CHICAGO — A solution to Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation state pension crisis remained far from reach Friday, as legislative leaders and Gov. Pat Quinn said they would try again to pass a plan backed ...
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