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Rep. King gets a shout-out amid academic paper's release
Spin CycleIf Caesar Trunzo can draw election-year kudos in a press release from St. Joseph's College for funding a member item (posted last week), certainly it's okay for Rep. Peter King, ranking GOP member of the House homeland security committee, to......Tags: Republican Party, Disasters, Caesar Trunzo, New York University
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IU Southeast welcomes students living on campus
Indiana University Southeast is welcoming its first group of students living on campus. Nearly 400 students this week moved into new lodges featuring multi-bedroom apartments surrounding communal spaces with fireplaces. Administrators spent decades...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Tourism and Leisure, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Teaching and Learning, Indiana University
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Laborer charged with stealing $10,000 worth of copper
The Associated PressA construction worker from Baltimore assigned to a project at Harford Community College is charged with stealing $10,000 worth of copper. The Harford County Sheriff's Department said 47-year-old Dwayne Everett stole copper pieces and sold it to a...Tags: Prosecution, Theft, Crimes
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Group to spend $2.8 million on anti-Obama ad
Associated Press WriterA conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign wants to spend $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. The ad,...Tags: Ohio, Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Government, Political Candidates
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Bigfoot Hoaxers Say it was all "A Big Joke"
CNNATLANTA -- The two men who claimed to have found the carcass of Bigfoot have surfaced to say: Hey, it was just a joke. Not everyone is laughing. In an exclusive interview with CNN affiliate WSB, the two hoaxers -- car salesman Rick Dyer and now-fired...Tags: Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Biology, Hunting, Georgia
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Investigation closed into finances of non-profit Broward Black Elected Officials
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe Broward State Attorney's Office announced today it has closed its investigation into the finances of the non-profit Broward Black Elected Officials. The inquiry showed the group spent most of its money on fundraising galas as opposed to scholarships,...Tags: Trials, Government, Florida Memorial University, Florida A&M University, Campaign Finance
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Chrencik installed as interim CEO of UM medical system
The Associated PressA state board has voted unanamimously to formalize Robert Chrencik's appointment as the interim chief executive officer of the University of Maryland Medical System. The vote by the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland came one day after...Tags: Government, Corporate Officers, University of Maryland, Heads of State, Management Change
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Carmel QB makes Kentucky his college choice
Kentucky wasn't even on Morgan Newton's short list of colleges, until he saw the Wildcats knock off in-state rival Louisville last fall. Then, after "a lot of processing" his possibilities, the quarterback at Indiana's top-ranked and defending Class...Tags: ESPN, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Schools
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Outgoing UW leader rips business lobby's tactics
Associated Press WriterThe state's largest business lobby has been taken over by "political extremists" and become a major obstacle to economic development, outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said this week. In a 3,000-word essay published in...Tags: Wisconsin, Medical Research, Government, Political Candidates, Republican Party
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Mich. man to share Denver stage with Obama
AP Political WriterRoy Gross doesn't know exactly what he's going to say next Thursday when he takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention. But the former truck driver from Taylor knows his comments will focus on the woes of the middle class. Gross got the...Tags: Elections, Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Usher
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Fractures in arctic ice worry scientists
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday. And that's led the...Tags: Colorado, Manhattan (New York City), Ohio State University, NASA, Landforms
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Undecided? It's more partisan than you think
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCan't decide between Barack Obama and John McCain? Chances are your brain already has. Using a simple word association test to look inside voters' heads, Canadian and Italian researchers found that many voters who believe they are undecided have...Tags: Elections, John McCain, Political Candidates, Virginia, Research
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