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Syracuse runs away from No. 6 North Carolina
about 12 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) - Jim Boeheim has always made a point of telling the media not to get too caught up in runs because basketball, especially on the college level, is a game of runs. He could only smile as  Read Story.
Calif. launches probe into scam targeting churches
about 13 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities s  Read Story.
Authorities: Man tied lizards to chest at airport
about 13 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service s  Read Story.
Syracuse runs away from No. 6 North Carolina 87-71
about 13 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) - Brandon Triche and Arinze Onuaku combined for 13 points in Syracuse's 22-1 run to open the second half and the Orange went on to a 87-71 victory over No. 6 North Carolina on Friday nig  Read Story.
Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event
about 14 hours ago
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears  Read Story.
Levin: May be more troubling emails from Hasan
about 14 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Se  Read Story.
Levin: Fort Hood probe may reveal more e-mails
about 15 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Se  Read Story.
NFL union pans reporting on teammates' concussions
about 16 hours ago
The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion, saying that is not an ade  Read Story.
Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations
about 16 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night. Now she  Read Story.
US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard
about 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutor  Read Story.
GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
about 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by  Read Story.
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
about 18 hours ago
ROME (AP) - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian ma  Read Story.
Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote
about 18 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisia  Read Story.
Mich. police nab wrong-way driver twice in 3 days
about 19 hours ago
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Authorities in western Michigan arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.m  Read Story.
Afghan police are weak link in security force
about 19 hours ago
KABUL (AP) - Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so   Read Story.
Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
about 19 hours ago
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) - Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trappin  Read Story.
Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
about 19 hours ago
ROME (AP) - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. Paolo  Read Story.
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
about 19 hours ago
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually ass  Read Story.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
about 20 hours ago
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in t  Read Story.
More states add jobs, but many for temporary staff
about 20 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment. That's customarily a po  Read Story.


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