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Average price of 4-year university up 15 percent

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock....
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Assistant McQueary takes stand in Sandusky case

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary has told jurors at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial about seeing the former coach with a boy in a campus shower....
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Michelle Obama gets daughters approval on new book

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book....
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Mass. mobster's lover gets 8 years in prison

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping him stay on the run for 16 years....
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ING agrees to forfeit $619 million

Amsterdam-based ING Bank N.V. agreed Tuesday to forfeit $619 million to the Justice Department and the New York County District Attorney´s Office for conspiring to illegally move billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned Cuban and Iranian entities.

It is the largest ever forfeiture against ...

More than seven in 10 US teens jobless in summer

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once a rite of passage to adulthood, summer jobs for teens are disappearing....
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"Gone With the Wind" actress Ann Rutherford dies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ann Rutherford, the demure brunette actress who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O'Hara's youngest sister in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 94....
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US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and warned that the Arab country's 15-month conflict could become even deadlier....
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Vatican says U.S. nuns must promote church teachings

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican insisted after a high level meeting Tuesday that American nuns must faithfully promote age-old church teachings, after the women were accused by Rome of flouting core doctrine and taking an overly liberal "feminist" bent.

Sister Pat Farrell and Sister Janet Mock, respectively president and ...

ND voters mull Fighting Sioux nickname clash

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Voters cast ballots Tuesday to resolve a bitter dispute over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname, even as supporters of the moniker promised to resume the battle this fall regardless of the outcome....
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Doctors: Face-chewing victim 'awake and alert'

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:37
MIAMI (AP) -- A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack along a busy Miami street is now `awake and alert," according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center....
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Doctors: Face-chewing victim 'awake and alert'

MIAMI — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack along a busy Miami street is now 'awake and alert," according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

A photograph shown to reporters Tuesday portrayed Ronald Poppo walking down a hospital hallway, ...

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