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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some dressed down in jeans and hoodies. Others looked camera-ready in suits or chic dresses and spiky stilettos.
But no matter how they looked, all of the stars who rehearsed Saturday for the 85th Academy Awards seemed excited a...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The "Twilight" team finally has earned some love — or loathing — from Team Razzies.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" was picked as last year's worst picture Saturday by the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that h...
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI gave his pontificate's final Sunday blessing from his studio window to the cheers of tens of thousands of people packing St. Peter's Square, but sought to reassure the faithful that he wasn't abandoning the churc...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen.
The Korean company announced on Sunday in B'arcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have ...
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GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Union workers at a northern Indiana trailer-hitch manufacturer have voted to forego arbitration and accept a severance agreement that will pay the most senior employees $36,000.
Most of the 350 United Steelworkers Local 9550 wo...
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A military leader at Ohio's largest military installation says most civilian workers at the southwest Ohio base are likely to lose pay if anticipated defense spending cuts go into effect.
The commander of the 88th Air Base Wing...
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McHENRY, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a skier died in an accident at the Wisp resort in western Maryland — the second man to die on the same ski slope this winter.
The Garrett County Sheriff's Office says 38-year-old Curt Winklevoss of Upper Arlin...
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The juvenile court trial of a Cincinnati high school girl accused of beating up a female classmate was postponed because a surveillance video from that day disappeared.
The 14-year-old teen and her mother were charged in the class...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's workers' compensation system has awarded millions of dollars in benefits for job-related injuries to thousands of professional athletes, including many who played for out-of-state teams, according to a report.
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CARMEL, Calif. (AP) — Two scuba divers have died while diving off the coast of California's Monterey County, authorities said.
Emergency crews were sent to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve around 2:45 p.m. Friday where they found lifeguards perfor...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The jersey worn by hockey great Mike Eruzione in the U.S. Miracle on Ice victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics was auctioned for almost $660,000 Saturday, though surprising strong interest in the stick he used to s...
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AVERY ISLAND, La. (AP) — Paul C. McIlhenny, chief executive and chairman of the board of the McIlhenny Company that makes the trademarked line of Tabasco hot pepper sauce and other products, has died, the company said Sunday.
He was 68.
A company...
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The risks of racing extend beyond the drivers.
Fans can wind up in the danger zone, too.
A horrifying crash on the last lap of a race at Daytona International Speedway injured at least 30 fans Saturday and provided anoth...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the deadline for action less than a week away, exasperated governors are joining a White House push to intensify pressure on Congress to prevent a looming budget crisis.
Both Democrat and Republican chief executives, gathere...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police are seeking a 26-year-old man as the prime suspect in last week's pre-dawn shooting and crash on the Las Vegas Strip that killed three people and injured several others
The black SUV used as a getaway car was found Saturday...
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BOSTON (AP) — Authorities in Massachusetts say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and that there is no threat to public safety.
Cambridge police said Saturday that officers searched for a man report...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kenny Cherry was an aspiring rapper who moved from the Bay Area to Las Vegas to pursue his career. His music videos online show him cruising the Strip in his Maserati.
Taxi driver Michael Boldon was a family man who hailed from Mi...
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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online service that stores data for a wide range of business customers.
The sloppy housekeeping represents an embarra...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread flight delays and shuttered airports, off-limit seashores and unprotected parks.
The Obama administration is painting a dire portrait of the many ways the public will feel the effects of automatic federal spending cuts ...
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LONDON (AP) — The man in charge in Britain's economy says he won't change direction despite a rating agency's decision to downgrade the nation's credit rating and he spurned renewed calls from the opposition for more stimulus for a flat-lining econ...