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November 11, 2006 09:58 PM EST --
Randy Wooten figured he'd get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people — even if it was just his own.
He didn't. Now he has to decide whether to file a formal protest. . . .
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December 04, 2006 02:14 AM EST --
A blind Turkish pensioner has been sentenced to a 26-day reading and writing course at his local public library after he failed to vote on time in an election for his village cooperative, his son said . . .
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December 05, 2006 11:57 PM EST --
It is considered polite to light a match after passing gas. Not while on a plane.
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise . . .
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December 06, 2006 12:11 AM EST --
Hoping to stir up thirst for milk, officials installed advertisements in several San Francisco bus shelters on Monday that give off the scent of freshly baked cookies.
The technology that creates the . . .
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December 10, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment EditorPublished: 10 December 2006
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. . . .
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November 11, 2006 02:59 AM EST --
Kids who are turned off by math often say they don't enjoy it, they aren't good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success?
The nations with the . . .
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December 02, 2006 04:36 AM EST --
A York woman called in a plumber to check her noisy heating system - and found a tramp living in her attic.
Natalie Summers asked the workman to check the pipes after hearing creaking sounds above her . . .
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December 19, 2006 09:03 PM EST --
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, . . .
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October 24, 2006 11:31 AM EDT --
U.S. officials said Tuesday Iraqi leaders have agreed to develop a timeline by the end of the year for progress in stabilizing Iraq, and Iraqi forces should be able to take full control of security in . . .
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October 26, 2006 07:27 PM EDT --
A northeast Iowa teenager accused of burning an American flag is charged with second-degree arson and desecration of a flag under the state's flag desecration law.
Maryann Beck, 15, of Independence . . .
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November 07, 2006 07:09 PM EST --
i'm watching cnn and i like the bottom scale on the screen, showing the republicans on one end, democrats on the other, with the majority arrow.
i'm a statistics nut, like the graphics.
but what . . .
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November 09, 2006 11:18 PM EST --
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, whose party lost both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, will step down from his post when his two-year term ends in January, GOP officials . . .
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November 10, 2006 07:42 PM EST --
By Dan WhitcombFri Nov 10, 1:53 PM ET
Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear . . .
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November 26, 2006 11:19 PM EST --
Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington. . . .
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December 06, 2006 10:04 AM EST --
Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant, according to a published report.
Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are "ecstatic" . . .
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December 07, 2006 11:35 PM EST --
In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.
The . . .
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December 16, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
By Fernando Quintero, Rocky Mountain News
Inside her dilapidated but tidy trailer, Carmen Lopez waited anxiously Wednesday for word of her husband's whereabouts.She was told by the Mexican Consulate . . .
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October 26, 2006 07:57 PM EDT --
Mexico, supported by 27 other nations, made a declaration at the Organization of American States slamming U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fence on its southern border.
The declaration, . . .
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November 04, 2006 06:00 PM EST --
By KIM NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Rev. Ted Haggard agreed to resign as leader of the New Life Church after its independent investigative board recommended . . .
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November 27, 2006 09:59 PM EST --
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German . . .
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