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Egypt leader claims victory in captives release
This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's ...
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Senators warm to transportation nominee
Transportation Secretary nominee, Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ...
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Minn. teen whose farewell song became web hit dies
The 18-year-old was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in November 2009. When he learned last year he didn't have much longer to live, his mother suggested he write farewell notes to his loved ones. Instead, he wrote ...
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4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Holder said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and ...
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A divided Fed wrestles with when to slow bond buys
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is torn over when to slow its aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy.Its uncertainty burst into view Wednesday, when Chairman Ben Bernanke testified to Congress in the morning and the Fed in the afternoon released the minutes of its last policy meeting.Stock prices gyrated through the day as investors struggled to determine whether the Fed might soon pull ...
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FDA panel backs experimental Merck insomnia drug
WASHINGTON -- A federal panel of medical experts says that an experimental insomnia drug from Merck & Co Inc. appears safe and effective, despite evidence from company trials that the pill can cause daytime sleepiness and difficulty driving.A majority of panelists on the Food and Drug Administration panel voted that Merck's sleeping aid, suvorexant, helped patients get to sleep and ...
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Tesla uses stock note sale to repay government
DETROIT -- Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it has repaid a loan from the U.S. government nine years early.The company says it wired a $451.8 million payment to the government on Wednesday to retire a loan it received from the Department of Energy.The agency loaned Tesla $465 million in 2010 to make advanced-technology vehicles. The company used money from a $968 million sale of stock ...
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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth ...
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Police identify men fatally stabbed at Ala. church
Authorities say 76-year-old Anthony Jackson and his 69-year-old brother, Terry, were stabbed at the West Huntsville United Methodist Church Tuesday morning. Officials say the men volunteered at the church and were likely cleaning the building before the food pantry opened for the ...
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Alabamas tuition plan starting reduced payments
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A financial expert says the outlook for Alabama's prepaid college tuition plan has turned around since the state's highest court ruled the program can pay tuition at fall 2010 rates rather than current ...
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Judge apologizes for lag in unsealing documents in leak case
A federal judge apologized Wednesday for an 18-month delay in unsealing documents in a case involving an alleged leak of classified information to a reporter. The documents include two warrants and related materials for the email accounts of Stephen Kim, a State Department adviser who faces charges of leaking secret information about North Korea to Fox News reporter James Rosen. The warrants ...
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Rev. Robert Taylor Sr.
Rev. Robert Lee Taylor Sr., age 61, a native and resident of Millry, was born Dec. 23, 1951 to the parentage of the late Vadon Taylor and Annie Lee Johnson Taylor. He departed this life May 17, 2013 at Wayne General Hospital, Waynesboro, Miss. Rev. Taylor was united with Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Millry. He was joined in holy matrimony to Elaine Donaldson in 1975; to ...
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Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1 but allow them to vary with the markets going ...
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Soldier charged with videotaping women
WASHINGTON -; An Army soldier has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a ...
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HPs slumps deepens in 2Q as earnings fall 32 pct
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard's slump is deepening as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.A quarterly earnings report released Wednesday provided the evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s deteriorating condition.The results included the seventh consecutive decline in HP's ...
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Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberating
As a jury deliberates whether Jodi Arias should live or die for killing her one-time boyfriend, the convicted murderer says she deserves a chance at freedom ...
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Benghazi review leader OKs meeting with committee
A key House committee chairman says a wide-ranging immigration bill just passed by a Senate committee falls far short of what is needed to end the problem of illegal ...
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Am. Samoa to keep flier miles for govt travelers
By FILI SAGAPOLUTELEAssociated Press PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory. Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the territory will use the miles to help medical patients travel off-island when needed, or help students travel for educational programs. Moliga says Hawaiian Airlines ...
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UA in the News May 22 2013
University of Alabama students help restore historic landmark in Marion CBS 8 (Montgomery) - May 21 Students from the University of Alabama are helping to restore a historic landmark in Perry County. The students are renovating a portion of one of the buildings at the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Lincoln was one of the first institutions established to educate African Americans after the ...
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Deadly unknown respiratory disease kills two in Alabama
USA A mysterious respiratory illness has claimed the lives of two people in southeast Alabama, and caused five other hospitalizations. The illness has left health officials baffled, who have no idea what this disease is or where it originated. The mysterious illness has sickened its victims with flu-like symptoms, including a shortness of breath, fever, and coughing. Of the seven people who ...
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Ala. school board votes to lease laptops
Laptops had already been loaned out to 950 students before the board voted to lease additional ones. Burrage says the district will loan laptops to 1,250 high school students and about 700 middle school students. Administrators will meet with students this fall to discuss proper use and care of the ...
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CDC chases cause of mystery illness in SE Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Doctors throughout Alabama have gotten notices from the State Department of Health about the unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two and hospitalized five ...
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Key House chairman slams Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key House committee chairman says a wide-ranging immigration bill just passed by a Senate committee falls far short of what is needed to end the problem of illegal ...
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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain
Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global ...
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Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases
Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as June _ if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds over what evidence would demonstrate such gains.Minutes of the Fed's April 30-May 1 meeting released Wednesday show "a number" of members ...
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Redevelopment of Fair Park at the heart of the budget mess
The city council of Birmingham is facing the difficult task of trying to redevelop a badly run-down part of the city with money that is short, and transforming the local economy to a cleaner one at a time of great recession, yet this must be done if we are to plan for the future.
Birmingham is a city that grew up as a manufacturing hub in the American south. The city was hit badly by the Great Depression, and it wasn’t until after the Second World War that things started to look up. The current situation in Birmingham is no different, although the local economy has diversified considerably since back then, it is still heavily reliant on manufacturing activities. Read more
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