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Boston police city to review bombings response
LOWELL, Mass. -; Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says his department and Mayor Thomas Menino's office will conduct two separate investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings ...
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San Francisco bacon restaurant forced to close over smell
Who complains about the smell of bacon? People in San Francisco, apparently. The owner of Bacon Bacon, an eatery that specialized in all things porcine, was forced ...
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Feds launch probe into Connecticut train crash that injured dozens
Dozens were injured after two commuter trains collided near Fairfield, Conn., during the evening rush hour on May 17, 2013. (Rob Oliver via ...
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Woman dies after waiting nearly an hour for police
dallas woman called 911 on the day she was allegedly killed by her ex-husband. despite hearing her screams for help over the phone it took nearly an hour for police to arrive. "rock ...
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Meet Minnesota’s pint-sized politician Mayor Tufts
Bobby Tufts, 4, may look like a typical kid, but his resume goes way beyond daycare and playgrounds -- he's the mayor of the town of Dorset, Minn. He is already learning the challenges of holding an office of power, though, telling TODAY's Erica Hill his girlfriend only likes him "because I'm the mayor." TODAY's Erica Hill interviews Bobby Tufts and his ...
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Orlando woman lied about military service to avoid paying mortgage feds say
No lie was too small to tell for an Orlando woman who wanted a new home in Pensacola, but didn't want to pay the mortgage for her Orlando home, federal officials said. Chantal M. Lanton, 37, of Orlando is accused of falsely claiming to be an officer in ...
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Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash
1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ...
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Saturday morning nutpick if this is post-racial America...
Marco Rubio on Thursday morning, saying he just can't understand why Big Bad Obama won't call for a DOJ investigation into the IRS: MARTHA MacCALLUM: If you really want to make a statement as ...
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Video Second Cup Cafe Amy Grant
One of the world's top-selling crossover artists, Amy Grant just released her first new studio CD after a decade-long break. The singer-songwriter performs "Don't Try So Hard" off of her new ...
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N. Luzon fiesta maker to market former US military property
SAN FERNANDO CITY--In the past, a provincial fiesta was held based on the need to honor a Catholic saint's feast day. But then came the Baguio Flower Festival, or Panagbenga in 1995, which changed the rules by becoming the first secular fiesta, after Bacolod's popular Masskara, during the month of February. Occurring simultaneously in February is the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, which has ...
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Kansas City museum raising cash to fly Connie
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -; The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air ...
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
O'BRIEN, Ore. -; Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran ...
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FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. -; The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington ...
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QA Kree Harrison on Being American Idol Season 12 Runner-Up
champ. Still, the title of runner-up certainly isn’t anything to scoff at. The 23-year-old Texan, known for her country roots and pleasant personality, effortlessly sang songs by Patty Griffin, Rascal Flatts ...
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Students cant resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you
By Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News Are gadgets making us dumber? Two new studies suggest they might be. One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test. A second demonstrated that some students, even when on their best behavior, can't concentrate on homework for more than two minutes without distracting themselves by using social ...
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Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade surprises fan at prom
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade made one high school senior's night when he showed up unexpectedly at her prom.Wade walked into a ballroom with roses and hugged Nicole Muxo on Friday night as her classmates from Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School cheered.Muxo posted a YouTube video in April asking Wade to the prom. She knew it was unlikely with the Heat heading to ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Watch Powerball Jackpot Spending $600 Million in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is synonymous with wealth. Prestige and exclusivity. Some of -- -- thanks to the powerball. Tourists here to check out the lives of the rich and the famous are now thinking about ...
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Watch Search for Missing Woman in San Bernardino Mountains
The search for Karen Tillman took on increasing urgency with search and rescue crews looking for the 59 year old -- -- And on foot and on horseback. -- son Dan -- also joined the search effort ...
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Chicago Teachers Union Begins 3-Day Citywide March
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal to close dozens of schools. It starts Saturday and organizers are billing it as a march for ';education ...
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State Sen. Pushes Legislation Aimed To Curb Burglaries
(CBS) — Republican Senator Kirk Dillard is pushing legislation he says might help curb break-ins that are occurring throughout the Western suburbs, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig ...
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Women sad angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
An insurance company has bought out a nonprofit home for struggling women in Cincinnati in a deal announced Monday, ending a bitter two-year court battle over the historic property in a picturesque downtown ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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What To Do In Los Angeles The HiddenLA Way
Lynn Garrett knows that loving Los Angeles means looking beyond the stucco facades and traffic pileups, and whatever Hollywood meltdown you saw last night on TMZ. "Los Angeles has a heart that's hidden to most of the world," she says, which is why Garrett ...
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Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings
Chicago Teachers are taking a stand once again in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools in low income Chicago communities-this time with ...
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