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David Letterman Extortion Case: CBS News Producer Pleads Guilty
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The Examiner: Robert "Joe" Halderman pleads guilty in David Letterman Extortion Case.AP/Louis Lanzano Related articlesTop 10 celebrity sex scandals...
Major business groups launch major ad campaign to stop Obama health care bill
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Star Tribune: WASHINGTON - Major business groups say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is a job killer, and they're launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to take that...
Struggles at bank owned by candidate's family loom over Ill. race for Obama's old Senate seat
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Star Tribune: CHICAGO - With the public still furious over bank bailouts, Democrats desperate to keep President Barack Obama's old Senate seat are scrambling to counter revelations...
A.C. Milan's David Beckham is looking forward to return to Man. U - Soccer - SI.com
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CNN: Story Highlights David Beckham hasn't played at Old Trafford since leaving Man. Utd, in 2003 Beckham leads A.C. Milan into Champions League match vs. Man. Utd. Paul...
 
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Toyota Supra MKIV from the en:2 Fast 2 Furious movie.
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The Daily Tribune: The Toyota myth is shattered
Barack Obama and Joe Biden at rally held in their honor at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on October 29, 2008
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Star Tribune: Restrictions on abortion funding take on different form in Obama's health care overhaul bill
Liverpool's manager Rafael Benitez talks to the media during a press conference at the club's Anfield stadium, Liverpool, England, Monday March 5, 2007.
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Independent online (SA):  Benitez losing patience as time runs out
Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia during the men's singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010.
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Independent online (SA):  Nadal says he's fit for Indian Wells
Dogs - Animal - Pet
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Star Tribune: A chip for spot: British dog owners could be forced to microchip and insure their pets
Classic General Electric neon sign, in Willacoochee.
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Star Tribune: GE proposes limiting downstream PCB contamination during Hudson River dredging
Workers leave the headquarters of Panasonic Corp. in Kadoma in Osaka Prefecture
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Star Tribune: Samsung and Panasonic try to launch the era of 3-D TVs, with models going on ...
Cars - Vehicles - Parking Lot
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Inquirer: Summer heat no picnic for your car
Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson, left, and his assistant Carlos Queiroz watch proceedings during a practice session at the team's Carrington training ground before their upcoming FA Cup semi-final soccer match against Watford, in Manchester
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The Independent: Brown ruled out for over a month
Vitali Klitschko,left, former WBC and WBO heavyweight champion during a training session in Going in the Austrian province of Tyrol, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. Klitschko will fight against WBC boxing world champion Samuel Peter of Nigeria in Berlin, Germany on Oct. 11, 2008 for Peter's WBC heavyweight title.
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MSNBC: Vitali Klitschko to fight Albert Sosnowski
Netherlands' Ryan Babel
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Sky Sports: Babel keeps the faith
Former Formula One World champion Michael Schumacher
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The Daily Telegraph Australia: Michael Schumacher will fail - Mark Webber
Retailing- super market- mall- India
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Star Tribune: Publix Super Markets recalls some seasoning mixes that may be contaminated with salmonella
Brazil's top model Gisele Bundchen, right, and U.S. American football star Tom Brady
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Boston Herald: Buyers beware of Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen’s Back Bay digs
USA's Bode Miller reacts in the finish area after taken the second place together in the same time with Mario Scheiber from Austria during the men's Downhill World Cup race in Kitzbuehel, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. (bb2)
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USA Today: Bode Miller decides to skip World Cup finals
President George W. Bush discusses the Medicare prescription drug benefit plan at the Etta & Joseph Miller Performing Arts Center in Jefferson City, Mo., Tuesday, April 11, 2006. ula1
photo: White House by Eric Draper
The Daily Beast: Bush's Ghostwriter
Kim Clijsters of Belgium returns the ball to Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn during their Women's singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010.
photo: AP / Mark Baker
China Daily: Kim Clijsters
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at Moscow's President Hotel, Friday, March 27, 2009. Friday's conference on coordination of global efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking in Afghanistan, whose participants include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekista
photo: AP / Misha Japaridze
Star Tribune: Russian foreign minister says nuclear arms treaty could be signed by April
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget Request May 13, 2009, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.
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Star Tribune: Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan
Joe Biden
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Star Tribune: Biden in Israel says United States will back those who "take risks for peace"
Bollywood (Hindi film) actress / heroine Bipasha Basu at the launch of Filmfare cover issue featuring her in a hot & sexy bikini.
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The Siasat Daily: Bipasha Basu harassed
Mark Alan Webber,is an Australian Formula One driver. (rs1)
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The Times of India: Schumacher in for a hard season: Webber
Pakistan cricket Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq looks on during a practice session in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Pakistan will play three One-Day Internationals and two Test matches with Sri Lanka beginning March
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Newstrack India: Pak cricket should move on from Oz debacle : Inzamam
Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, takes a jump on her way to winning an alpine ski, Women's World Cup Downhill race, in Are, Sweden, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
photo: AP / Marco Trovati
m&c: Vonn poised for third straight World Cup overall title (News Feature)
people in a garden in the morning
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The Examiner: Bluestocking green-thumb: Literary quotes provide garden inspiration

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Kroger, Ruby Tuesday, UAL, General Growth, Nvidia among big market movers Tuesday2010-03-09
Star Tribune: NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: Kroger Co., down 55 cents at $22.35 A gasoline incentive program boosted sales, but quarterly profit fell 27 percent as...
Job openings up sharply in January, evidence that employers are slowly boosting hiring2010-03-09
Star Tribune: The Labor Department said Tuesday that job openings rose to 2.7 million in January, the highest level in nearly a year. Here's a breakdown of where companies are hiring — or not: Construction: down 7,000 openings to 60,000 Manufacturing: down 18,000 to...
Bailed out companies see shares rise on hopes that government rescues could be winding down2010-03-09
Star Tribune: WASHINGTON - Shares of four companies that have received huge infusions of taxpayer cash soared Tuesday after a report that the government would sell its stake in Citigroup Inc. raised hopes that other bailed-out companies would follow. Shares of Citi rose 26...
Toyota exec says North American sales up 50 percent from first 8 days of March '092010-03-09
Star Tribune: ERLANGER, Ky. - A high-ranking Toyota executive says the automaker's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers after a series of embarrassing safety recalls. Don Esmond, senior vice...
A spoonful of sugar helps the budget gap go down? Kan. to consider soda tax ...2010-03-09
Star Tribune: TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas would impose a new tax on soda — a penny for every teaspoon of sugar — under a proposal that a key legislator outlined Tuesday while lawmakers considered raising taxes to erase a projected budget shortfall. The soda tax...
Strategic Hotels & Resorts names new CFO2010-03-09
Star Tribune: CHICAGO - Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. has named a new chief financial officer. The company — a real estate investment trust with properties in the U.S., Mexico and Europe — said James Mead's last day as CFO was March 8. Mead had served in...
North metro town briefs2010-03-09
Star Tribune: BLAINE Woodcarving show set this weekend The Minnesota Wood Carvers Association will hold its 44th annual woodcarving show this weekend at Northtown Center in Blaine, sponsored by the Metro Woodcarvers Chapter. The hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11...
Robbinsdale class sizes will inch up2010-03-09
Star Tribune: Class sizes in Robbinsdale schools will increase slightly next year. The school board recently approved teacher layoffs that will add an average of one student per class at the elementary level and 1 1/2 students per class in such basic middle-school and high...
An education for all...2010-03-09
Star Tribune: It was the search for a better fit for Annie that led her parents to the tiny school in Plymouth. Kate Heegaard Hartfiel and her husband were seeking an alternative to the large public high school in their area for their teenage daughter, Annie, who is on the...
California test-taking ring for foreign students reveals gap in visa security measures2010-03-09
Star Tribune: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A ring accused of helping people from the Middle East obtain student visas by taking their proficiency exams and classes has exposed vulnerability in the nation's security tracking system for foreigners who attend U.S. schools, experts said...
Mass. father accused of giving daughter prescription drug overdose blames wife, psychiatrist2010-03-09
Star Tribune: BROCKTON, Mass. - The Massachusetts man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by overmedicating her with prescription drugs is blaming his wife and a psychiatrist for the girl's death in 2006. Michael Riley was depicted Tuesday as a father who was not...
Federal justice officials, tribal leaders look to better protect American Indian children2010-03-09
Star Tribune: SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. - The U.S. Interior Department's assistant secretary for Indian Affairs says the federal government and tribal law enforcement officers cannot simply arrest their way out of the problems that plague Indian country. Former prosecutor and...
Former NY Rep. Massa acknowledges groping male staffer but denies it was sexual2010-03-09
Star Tribune: WASHINGTON - Former New York Congressman Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual. "It doesn't make any difference what my intentions were, it's how it's...
How the AP-GfK poll on health care was conducted2010-03-09
Star Tribune: The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It was based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702...
Klobuchar to speak at Jefferson-Jackson dinner2010-03-09
Star Tribune: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, enjoying a reputation as one of Washington’s most charming pols, has scored one of the most coveted speaking roles in the Democratic universe: She will keynote this month’s annual black-tie Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond,...
US military: 2 American soldiers die in vehicle accident in Iraq2010-03-09
Star Tribune: BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq. A statement says the soldiers died Monday. It says two other soldiers were injured in the same accident, which is under investigation. The names of the soldiers are...
Michael Vick 'humbled' by Ed Block Courage Award, but protesters say he's undeserving2010-03-09
Star Tribune: BALTIMORE - Dozens of protesters lined up outside a banquet hall where Michael Vick said he was "very humbled" to be honored as one of 32 NFL players to receive the Ed Block Courage Award. The award is presented to players who exemplify commitment to...
UK crackdown on dangerous dogs could make insurance, microchips mandatory for all2010-03-09
Star Tribune: LONDON - A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips...
International collection of science academies to review UN global warming panel's work, rules2010-03-09
Star Tribune: WASHINGTON - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it makes its reports. The InterAcademy Council will be given complete control to review the rules, procedures and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Steve Alexander: Keeping iPod out of sync from iTunes2010-03-09
Star Tribune: Q During a recovery of my computer, I lost my iTunes library of 1,300 songs. I have been told that if I plug my iPod into my computer, the songs on the iPod will be wiped out, too. Is that true? What should I do? ROBERT DUDA, BROOKLYN CENTER A You're right to...
Police: Friend of boxer Mayweather facing charges in shooting outside Las Vegas skating center2010-03-09
Star Tribune: LAS VEGAS - A man who police say was part of boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s entourage is facing charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from an August shooting outside a Las Vegas skating rink, authorities said Tuesday....
No Weir at world championships, but look for him to be back next season2010-03-09
Star Tribune: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Johnny Weir says he won't compete at the World Figure Skating Championships later this month, but his career isn't done. Weir, who finished sixth at the Vancouver Olympics last month, said in a statement Tuesday he wants time to...
Legal fallout from Coyotes bankruptcy continues as NHL sues former owner Moyes2010-03-09
Star Tribune: NEW YORK - The nearly yearlong legal battle between the National Hockey League and former Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes isn't over yet. The NHL filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Moyes and his family on Friday, alleging that the trucking magnate...
Radakovich says it's too early for 'any discussion' on Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt's status2010-03-09
Star Tribune: ATLANTA - Georgia Tech is down to one last opportunity to salvage its season. Athletic director Dan Radakovich wouldn't say Tuesday if the ACC tournament also is the last chance for coach Paul Hewitt to save his job. Georgia Tech, coming off a disappointing...
NCAA official: No decision made on whether to expand men's basketball tournament2010-03-09
Star Tribune: NEW YORK - The NCAA's senior vice president says no decision has been made on whether to expand the men's basketball tournament. Greg Shaheen reiterated Tuesday at CBS's NCAA tournament media day that the organization is doing its "due diligence." He...