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TJC’s Terry Laporte earn All-American honors
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — The Tyler Junior College Apaches finished ninth in the NJCAA Division II National Golf Tournament after Friday’s final round at Goose Pond Colony Golf Course.The Apaches’ Tyler Terry and Conlan Laporte earned All-America honors.TJC’s Terry finished strong by taking ninth place. The sophomore from Hurst had a 72-hole score of even par 288 (73-72-70-73). ...
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MLB Chicago White Sox 4 Miami 3
John Danks kept Chicago in the game by pitching into the seventh inning in his first start in more than a year. He received a standing ovation when he left the mound. Miami tied the game with a run charged to Danks in the seventh and the contest remained deadlocked until the White Sox got to reliever Ryan Webb (1-2) in the ...
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Cuba With Three Athletes in New York City
Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will take part in the 3rd stage of the Diamond League in the city of New York with three athletes, as confirmed by Daniel Osorio, technical coach of the Cuban track and field team Friday. Olympic female pole vault jumper and runner-up Yarisley Silva is heading the Cuban trio, said Osorio to Radio Habana Cuba. The other athletes will be Orlando Ortega (110 ...
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Candice Glover It feels good to win ‘American Idol’
Did you have a favorite judge? I do know that I connect more with Randy because he’s been there the whole time that I was there in the three years. He’s seen me grow, and I definitely look forward to his opinion as well as Mariah Carey’s, because she’s been doing this forever, and she knows what it’s like. Nicki also knows what it’s like today. So I look up to ...
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From the NBC Vault Walt builds a fallout shelter
After the devastation in Moore, Okla., had us all talking about shelters, Rock Center mined the archives and found something related: the last time in our history when shelters were top of mind. For this holiday weekend edition of Rock Bottom, Brian Williams re-examines a Cold War clip from the 1960s called "Walt Builds A Fallout ...
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Chicago School Security Pushes Student Down Stairs www.privateofficer.com
A former prosecutor representing a Chicago family said he anticipates criminal charges will be filed against a school security officer who was captured on cell phone video being aggressive with a student. Chicago Public Schools officials said they removed the employee from duty following the Tuesday incident. Video appeared to show him throwing the female student down the stairs at Dunbar ...
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2 dead after Angel Flight crashes in upstate New York official says
EPHRATAH, N.Y. – A small airplane operating as an Angel Flight has crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers as investigators search for the pilot, who is missing. The Federal Aviation Administration says the flight originated in Massachusetts and crashed about a half-mile west of Caroga, N.Y., just after 5 p.m. Friday. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said most of the Piper ...
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Payout to American Airlines CEO opposed
The Justice Department is objecting to a proposed $20 million severance payment for American Airlines CEO Tom Horton, saying it's bigger than allowed by bankruptcy ...
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Video Listen Desperate 911 calls from Moore Oklahoma
Abby the dachshund was found and reunited with her owner 48 hours after being buried underneath debris from the Moore, Okla., tornado. KWTV's Michael Konopasek ...
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Frantic 911 calls reveal chaos in Okla. following tornado
Several 911 calls made in the wake of Monday's massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma are now being publicly heard, revealing the chaos that the city's residents had experienced from the devastation. On Friday, recordings of some of the emergency calls were made available by Moore police (click on the video above to hear). One of the frightening calls came from a man describing that a ...
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Sexual misconduct investigation under way at Alaskan base military officials say
By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News The Army has launched an investigation into possible sexual misconduct or sexual assault at the Space and Missile Defense Command at Fort Greely, Alaska, military and defense officials tell NBC ...
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Stiletto network’ creates ‘best version’ of members
Rock Center's Kate Snow explores the growing trend of powerful - and soon to be powerful - women who join together to support and invest in each other in what one author is calling "stiletto ...
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‘Friends’ producer helps blind filmmakers find vision
Rock Center's Harry Smith goes inside the classroom of Kevin Bright, a television executive producer-turned-teacher who's teaching blind students how to make movies. Under Bright's tutelage, the students show that though they may not have sight, they do have ...
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Jury convicts former South Texas DA of corruption
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A federal jury in South Texas has convicted a former district attorney on corruption charges.Former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos (vee-yah-LOH'-bohs) was convicted Friday of racketeering, bribery, extortion and other charges. He was acquitted of two counts of extortion.Villalobos was accused of paying $10,700 to state District Judge Abel Limas to ...
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Teen in devastated Okla. town handing out hugs
MOORE, Okla. -- The people of the Oklahoma town where a deadly tornado struck could use just about everything - cleaning supplies, food, water, shelter.Thirteen-year-old Halle Carr thought residents of her hometown could also use a hug after the twister Monday that killed 24 people in Moore.Halle has been standing on a corner with a white sign that reads: "Need a hug? I am here!" And ...
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Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing
FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...
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Working Americans turn down pay raise to avoid ‘cliff effect’
NBC News' Lester Holt investigates a double bind for a growing number of Americans. Some hard-working people are grappling with an economic "cliff effect" where a pay raise can actually make them worse off while also costing taxpayers at the same ...
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Pacers lead at half in game 2 at Miami
Roy Hibbert shoots the ball as Miami Heat center Chris Bosh defends during the first half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series. (AP Photo/Lynne ...
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Noon kickoff with Gators shows how far Miami ACC have fallen
Wake Forest on Raycom? Can't say I really blame ESPN for sticking this game in the undesirable noon slot. Miami is, after all, the home team and this is the ACC's TV game. Quite frankly, both UM and the ACC haven't been relevant on a national level for years. It also doesn't help that the Gators, even though they won 11 games last season, aren't the sexiest of teams and ...
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Unmanned freedom American style
All achievements of modern science and U.S. military technology are used to kill innocent civilians in other countries. Civilians are being murdered by programmed machines, unmanned aerial vehicles. Drones have neither mercy nor compassion, and do justice in the American way, leaving no chance to the innocent. In Yemen, Pakistan and other countries, 4,700 people fell victims of the U.S. drones, ...
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Activities Throughout Polk Commemorate Americas War Dead
FORT MEADE MEMORIAL EVENThosted by Fort Meade Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11179, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at post headquarters, 29 Brown Ave. N., Fort Meade. SERGEANT MAJOR BBQ'S FUNDRAISER for the benefit of veterans' organizations will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of Tractor Supply, 6945 U.S. 98 N., Lakeland.Prices are $6 for a pulled pork sandwich with the fixings: baked beans ...
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State report I-5 bridge had gouges impact damage
Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. (AP ...
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Suspects in Denver bar slayings plead not guilty
DENVER -; Three men accused of fatally stabbing five people at a Denver bar that authorities say was set on fire to cover up the killings have pleaded not ...
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Oklahoma principal memorializes students lost in tornado
Amy Simpson, the principal at Plaza Towers Elementary, remembers the seven students who died in the tornado that swept through the Oklahoma school. Rock Center's Kate Snow ...
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Will Robbie Rogers be a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy by Sundays game
USA Today had a long feature on the returning MLS star and his decision to come out of retirement following a public announcement earlier this year that he’s gay. The piece mentioned that Rogers has agreed to contract terms with the Los Angeles Galaxy, a team he has been training with for the past few weeks. That led to reporters connecting the dots and speculating on Twitter that there ...
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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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