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NFL Owners Award Super Bowl 50 to San Francisco
National Football League owners voted Tuesday to award the San Francisco 49ers the honor of hosting the 2016 Super Bowl at their new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. The choice "came as no surprise," according to a ...
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MLS may be a minority league in America but has sizeable ambitions
Fifteen thousand football fans, many of them with complimentary tickets, many of them Hispanic, rattled around New Jersey's 80,000-seat Giants Stadium. They were watching the clunkily named New York/New Jersey Metro Stars play the Kansas City Wizards, two of just 10 teams in the inaugural Major League Soccer [MLS] season. It was July 1996, and the first attempt to establish a national, ...
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Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday
Metro North railroad employees use heavy equipment to repair tracks near Bridgeport, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP Photo/Mark ...
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas
GULFPORT, Miss. -; Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane ...
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Correction Missing Mom-Utah story
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -; In a story May 20 about the Susan Powell investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously the day that Josh Powell committed suicide. It happened on Feb. 5, ...
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Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
In this photo made available by the Hunt family, Kaitlyn Hunt and her father Steve in Vero Beach, Fla., Monday May 20, 2013. Kaitlyn, 18, was expelled from school for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. Hunt was arrested and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years. (AP Photo/Hunt ...
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Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. -; The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...
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Protesters rally over IRS tea party scrutiny
Polly Beckham, of Ambler, Pa., holds a sign during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of their groups, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Philadelphia. Tea party groups and other groups are urging activists across the country to demonstrate at their local Internal Revenue Service offices. (AP Photo/Matt ...
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Bishop would-be pipe bomber gets 37 years
CHICAGO -; An Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The ...
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Committee nears final vote on immigration bill
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...
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Obama opposes GOP bill on Keystone XL oil pipeline
WASHINGTON -; The White House says President Barack Obama opposes a House bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to ...
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Janelle Monae and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rock the Windy City
Phish 's Trey Anastasio noodled on his guitar alongside several metropolitan city orchestras on a cross-country tour a few months prior. However, few have slid so comfortably into such a hit-or-miss experiment as Janelle ...
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Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas
Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...
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White House IRS timeline shifts again
The White House’s explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday.Just a day after telling reporters that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior White House staff learned of the situation nearly a month ago, press secretary ...
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The First American Anti-Nazi Film Rediscovered
In the early nineteen-hundreds, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, the great-great-grandson of the railroad and steamship tycoon, saw the heirs and heiresses he lived among as ';dull, uninteresting, hopelessly mediocre people.'; Seeking excitement, Vanderbilt enlisted in the First World War (supposedly he became a driver when a general asked if any of his men could handle a Rolls Royce); once ...
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PST Why MLS wanted New York as market
more interesting with an expanded geographical footprint. It made perfect sense from the outside; Major League Soccer stretching into the American southeast, specifically, had a certain sex appeal. Plus, more TV markets couldn't hurt, right? But for Major League Soccer's deciders, this was a strategic choice all about dollars and good financial sense - something near and dear to ...
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Mom talks about missing cheerleader found dead
After a two-day search in rural Oregon failed to yield any trace of missing Utah mother Susan Powell, authorities said Thursday they may close the ...
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Miami Fed Chief Juan del Busto Joins Ocean Bank Board of Directors
Juan del Busto, the former regional executive of The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Miami branch and current chairman of Del Busto Capital Partners, Inc., has joined the Ocean Bank Board of Directors. Juan del Busto Ocean Bank Board of Directors "Ocean Bank is an excellent choice for me, not only is it a great financial institution, the bank is also very community minded in areas ...
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Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels- Israeli military chief issues stark warning on Syria
A Senate panel has voted to provide weapons to rebels battling the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The vote by the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday marked the first time that lawmakers have backed the aggressive military step of arming vetted opposition forces. The vote was 15-3. The United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed after more than two years ...
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Oscar Pistorius brother acquitted in road accident death
JOHANNESBURG – One Pistorius brother is free of charges -- acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Carl Pistorius cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and ...
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David Beckham To Earn Huge Windfall From New Yorks MLS Expansion
David Beckham is going to score big time with Manchester City and the New York Yankees bringing Major League Soccer to New York City for the 2015 season ...
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AES supplies energy at Central America and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Senators to IRS Officials Did the White House Know
Senate lawmakers jumped on the chance to grill the top IRS officials over the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Three men were on the hot seat Tuesday, including outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, and J. Russel George, the Treasury Department inspector general who submitted the report detailing the IRS scandal. Shulman was the one ...
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How Sexual Stigma Is Undermining HIV Treatment On American Indian Reservations
has seen its HIV diagnoses go up by 20 percent since 2011. Despite a concerted push by the federal Indian Health Service (IHS) and public health advocates to expand tribal HIV education programs, doctors have found treatment and prevention efforts to be stymied by cultural stigma surrounding the disease and homosexuality. Since the Navajo tribe is a comparatively isolated population, the ...
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Storm chasers following next line of storms in Texas
cold front that again is extremely slow-moving. so we're going to we keeping an eye on these storms throughout the rest of the afternoon. now is the time of day where these storms do continue to strengthen and fire up. the dark shade in yellow is an area where we do ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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