HARLINGEN, Texas – Wildlife biologists believe a whooping crane that got separated from its parents while learning to migrate is spending a second winter lost and in the company of friendly sandhill cranes. A bird watcher last week spotted the whooper near Hargill, about 110 miles south of the Aransas …
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ATHENS, Greece – Archaeologists in northern Greece have uncovered traces of two prehistoric farming settlements dating back as early as 6000 B.C., the Culture Ministry said Monday. The first site, located on a plot earmarked for coal mining by Greece’s Public Power Corporation, yielded five human burials, as well as …
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See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight, “The O’Reilly Factor” is on … A teacher in Florida who was accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student will not be going to jail! Did the system go too easy on Debra …
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Barbara Walters named Prince Charles’ new bride, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the most fascinating person of 2005 in an hour-long “20/20” special. The former Mrs. Parker Bowles was selected for her dramatic, star-crossed love story that culminated on April 9, when she finally wed her Prince Charming. As for Walters’ …
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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria called for an emergency Arab League (search) summit in a bid Monday to rally regional support in the face of a stern, unanimously adopted U.N. Security Council resolution demanding greater cooperation in the probe of the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister. But Arab diplomats, …
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NEW YORK – U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday a day after Dell Inc. (DELL), the world’s No. 1 personal computer maker, cut its revenue outlook and as investors anticipated the Federal Reserve’s 12th straight interest-rate increase. Shares of Dell fell 9.3 percent to $28.91 on Nasdaq after hitting a low …
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WASHINGTON – In college, Samuel Alito (search) led a student conference that urged legalization of sodomy and curbs on domestic intelligence, a sweeping defense of privacy rights he said were under threat by the government and the dawning computer age. President Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court, in a report …
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NEW YORK – Footwear chain Payless ShoeSource Inc. (PSS) Thursday posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings due to a rise in sales and favorable pricing, sending it stock up 6.5 percent. Earnings for the fiscal third quarter ended Oct. 29 rose to $21.9 million, or 32 cents per share, from $6.6 million, …
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AURORA, Colo. – A 6-year-old girl reported missing by her father this week may actually have been killed more than a year ago, police said, and they called the father a “person of interest” in the case. The search for Aarone Thompson was suspended, and police opened a homicide investigation …
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LOS ANGELES – Blockbuster Inc. (BBI), the No. 1 video rental chain, on Tuesday reported a quarterly loss and a wide-ranging program to cut costs, including a restructuring of its debt. The company, whose shares rose as much as 7 percent following the announcement, is grappling with a downturn in …
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