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          <title>Orlando office shooting</title>
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At least eight people were shot inside a downtown Orlando high-rise Friday morning. Firefighters were called to Gateway Center at 1000 Legion Place around 11:30 a.m. NBC affiliate WESH 2.           ]]></description>
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          <title>President Obama: Fort Hood massacre a &#8220;horrific outburst of violence&#8221;</title>
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President Barack Obama is calling a mass shooting at a Texas Army base a &#8220;horrific outburst of violence.&#8220;&nbsp;             ]]></description>
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          <title>BREAKING NEWS UPDATE 3: Fort Hood gunman identified as Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan</title>
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The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Facebook spammer ordered to pay $711 million</title>
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The social networking site wins damages against noted spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding its users with junk mail.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: La justice of the peace who refused to marry interracial couple resigns</title>
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A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black has resigned.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Wisconsin woman calls 911, reports herself driving drunk</title>
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Police in Wisconsin have released the 911 call from a woman who reported herself driving drunk.&nbsp; Listen to the 911 call.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:49:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Body of 4&#45;year&#45;old California boy found in dryer, 14&#45;year&#45;old in custody</title>
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The body of Alex Mercado was found Saturday in a neighbor&#8217;s clothes dryer in Medota, California.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:50:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>They may be banned, but some are still getting those dreaded &#8220;robocalls.&#8220; Find out what you can do</title>
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Despite a recent government crackdown, Americans continue to receive &#8220;robocalls,&#8220; those prerecorded phone messages that always seem to interrupt dinner.            ]]></description>
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          <title>CIT files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection</title>
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Lender CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a potential blow to the thousands of small and mid-sized businesses that rely on the company for loans to keep their operations afloat.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:02:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Philadelphia woman says she never offered sex for World Series tickets</title>
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Susan Finkelstein, a diehard Phillies fan, said she posted the ad on Craigslist hoping to score some cheap tickets.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:51:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Senators agree to extend homebuyers tax credits</title>
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Senators have agreed to extend a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers and to offer a reduced credit to some repeat buyers. The tax credit provides up to $8,000 to first-time homebuyers but is set to expire at the end of November.            ]]></description>
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          <title>SC Sen. Lindsey Graham: Obama should decide soon on sending more troops to Afghanistan</title>
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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says President Obama should decide whether to send more troops to Afghanistan before the runoff presidential election there Nov. 7th.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Nebraska hosts &#8220;National Screaming Finals&#8221;</title>
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York, Nebraska throws Scream on the Square, with a monster&#8217;s ball, cemetery tours, scarecrow contest, ugliest gord growing contest, pumpkin recipe contest and the National Scream Contest.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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          <title>GAO: FDA fails to follow up on unproven drugs</title>
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The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn&#8217;t extend patients&#8217; lives, say congressional investigators.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:43:42 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>New survey: growing number of Americans claim no religious affiliation</title>
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A new survey by Trinity College shows that within 20 years, a quarter of Americans will claim no religious affiliation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:22:55 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Arizona couple divorces to get health insurance</title>
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It&#8217;s been dubbed a medical divorce and untold numbers of Americans are doing it.&nbsp; Mostly working families who can&#8217;t afford their medical bills and don&#8217;t qualify for government health care           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:19:35 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Florida teen arrested with guns in golf bag</title>
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16-year-old Juan Gibson has been arrested and charged with armed burglary and grand theft of a firearm after he was caught carrying a golf bag with 13 stolen guns.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:16:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Study shows increasing number of Americans have no religious affiliation</title>
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The only religious tradition that&#8217;s growing in the United States seems to be no religion. A growing number of Americans simply answer &#8220;none&#8221; or &#8220;no religion&#8221; if anyone ever asks and research shows they are the fastest-growing segment of the national religious landscape.            ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Body found in Georgia may be of missing Florida girl</title>
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Crews searching for missing Florida 7-year-old Somer Thompson have found a body in a Georgia landfill.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:31:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Residents up in arms after Texas town places restrictions on American flags</title>
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The Colony&#8217;s Mayor Joe McCourry said it&#8217;s not an issue of being un-American, it&#8217;s about trying to enforce more uniform standards of neighborhood beauty.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:50:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Indianapolis police arrest robber who prayed for, hugged victims</title>
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The suspect, 23-year-old Gregory Smith turned himself in after his mother saw him on TV.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Florida mom makes emotional plea for young daughter&#8217;s return</title>
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The search for a missing seven year old Somer Thompson continues in Clay County, Florida.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Georgia mom admits beating up child&#8217;s teacher</title>
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A Georgia mother pleaded guilty Monday to beating up her daughter&#8217;s teacher.&nbsp; The attack happened last year in an Atlanta classroom, in front of students.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Balloon boy gets sick twice during TV interviews</title>
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The 6-year-old boy at the center of the runaway balloon saga got sick twice on national television when he and his father were asked during separate TV interviews what he meant about his comment that &#8220;we did this for a show.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>DEVELOPING STORY: Boy floats away in a balloon aircraft</title>
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 A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Insurance company reverses policy denying coverage for fat babies</title>
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An insurance company denied coverage for a baby because he was too fat.&nbsp; The company reversed the decision after the story aired on a local news station.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Insurance company turns down Colorado infant because he&#8217;s &#8220;too big&#8221;</title>
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A Colorado baby has been denied health insurance because he&#8217;s too big. 3-month-old Alex Lange&#8217;s height and weight put him in the 99th percentile for size according to CDC guidelines.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ohio man pulled from underneath flaming pump after gas station crash</title>
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He has broken bones, a cut on his head and scrapes on his face, But after a 500-pound, burning gas pump fell on top of him, a 57-year-old Ohio man knows his injuries could have been much worse.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Insurance company denies insurance for baby because he&#8217;s &#8220;too big&#8221;</title>
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3-month-old Alex Lange&#8217;s height and weight put him in the 99th percentile for size according to CDC guidelines.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man sleeps through house fire</title>
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The man was awakened by firefighters doing a walk-through of the Ross Township home more than two hours later.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Some Massachusett High school students will be subject to breathalyzers in class</title>
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Some Massachusetts high school students will soon be subject to alcohol breath tests at school. While it&#8217;s not uncommon for schools to test students at the prom, the school committee informally agreed to a new high school plan that allows breathalyzer tests during the school day.
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          <title>Obama says he will end &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; policy</title>
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President Barack Obama says he will end the &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; military policy.           ]]></description>
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          <title>President Obama says he&#8217;s humbled by Peace Prize</title>
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President Obama reacts to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Chase ends in a ditch</title>
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An hours-long police pursuit that stretched across north Texas came to a watery end Friday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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A dozen elementary school students have been suspended after something described as &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; and &#8220;sexual&#8221; happened on a Connecticut elementary school bus. It was so bad that 12 Generali Elementary School students will be transferred to other schools after they serve out their suspensions.           ]]></description>
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Jury selection is underway in the case against former Mobile county judge Herman Thomas.           ]]></description>
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Residents in Hobart, Oklahoma participate in pumpkin launching competitions during the 2nd Annual Pumpkin Palooza. Competitors use huge air canons to launch the orange gourds at targets up to 1000 feet away.           ]]></description>
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A dead 50-foot whale was found floating in Tampa Bay and towed to shore near Fort Desoto on Monday.           ]]></description>
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The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro,putting the games in South America for the first time.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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A bunch of government agencies have come together to create a consumer site called foodsafety.gov and it is a resource everybody needs to check out. For starters, it lists up-to-date food recalls from around the country. And you&#8217;d be surprised by how many there are, and how often bad food gets in our supply chain.           ]]></description>
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A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service says the agency has determined that a juvenile was responsible for the survey. The spokesman says there will be no criminal charges against the juvenile or that person&#8217;s parents.           ]]></description>
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An autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press shows Michael Jackson was not the sickly skeleton of a man portrayed by tabloids.
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A local store owner charged up the fire escape to save the young boy.           ]]></description>
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Tuesday was National Coffee Day, and a Fort Myers, Florida coffeehouse celebrated by brewing the rarest type of coffee in the world. It&#8217;s called Kopi Luwak, better known as &#8220;cat-poo coffee.&#8220;            ]]></description>
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A new book out  features cats in a way you&#8217;d never expect to see. Photographer Jill Johnson spent two months taking pictures of cats dressed up in wigs.           ]]></description>
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Michael Vick will wear Nike clothing and use its equipment as part of the deal.&nbsp; Specific detailsa are not being released about the deal which come two years after sponsors abandoned him following his conviction in a federal dogfighting ring.
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A 14-year-old Fort Worth girl who was &#8220;perfectly healthy&#8221; her entire life died suddenly Sunday after being diagnosed with the flu.           ]]></description>
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Investigators said Bill Sparkman, who was working for the U.S. Census Bureau, was discovered hanged from a tree and had the word &#8220;fed&#8221; scrawled on his chest. 
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You can file this under don&#8217;t try this at home!           ]]></description>
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Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant.           ]]></description>
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd calls the display embarrassing but says he&#8217;ll wait for findings from an internal investigation before handing  down disciplinary action.           ]]></description>
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Parts of Georgia have been covered by water and at least 8 are dead following massive flooding.           ]]></description>
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Aerial shots showed schools, parking lots and even entire neighborhoods submerged by the deluge, sending some unlucky residents scurrying for higher ground.           ]]></description>
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A two-year-old boy was swept from his mother&#8217;s arms into flood waters as the mother clung to a tree in Carroll County, Georgia, west of Atlanta.            ]]></description>
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Monday night, President Obama appeared on &#8220;The Late Show With David Letterman.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Hundreds turned out in Austin for the State Board of Education meeting&#8212;many angry that Christmas and Rosh Hashanah were left out of the curriculum proposed for 4-point-6 million Texas school children.           ]]></description>
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A picture depicting President Obama as Hitler brings brings back emotional memories for an Armenian immigrant living in Washington state.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s more fallout from a string of recently released embarrassing videos produced by conservative activists.

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A woman in Cincinnati is in hot water with authorities&#8212;after allegedly disciplining a stranger&#8217;s child.           ]]></description>
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ACORN, the national community organizing group, has been in hot water for alleged voter registration fraud going back to the 2008 general election.&nbsp; This week, secretly-taped videos further embarrassed the organization.           ]]></description>
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Swayze&#8217;s publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old &#8220;Dirty Dancing&#8221; actor died Monday with family at his side.           ]]></description>
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A first date gone horribly wrong in Toronto, Canada.&nbsp; Police say a woman was killed when she fell from the top of a building.            ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is calling the shooting of a Michigan anti-abortion activist &#8220;deplorable.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Kanye West apologized for an outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards that was directed at country-pop sweetheart Taylor Swift.           ]]></description>
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President Obama delivered the speech in hopes of rejuvenating his flagging push for an overhaul of the $2.5 trillion healthcare system, which has bogged down in Congress amid a flood of criticism.           ]]></description>
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A Louisville, Kentucky church plans to ordain a registered sex offender.&nbsp; The pastor of City of Refuge Church says the man deserves a second chance.           ]]></description>
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William Maser said he was firing a cannon Wednesday evening when the ball ricocheted and hit the house about 400 yards away.           ]]></description>
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Authorities say a boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute two years ago has been found alive, hidden behind a wall at his grandmother&#8217;s southern Illinois home.
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A New York couple face criminal charges after they allegedly photographed their 11-month-old and 5-year-old boys posing with guns.           ]]></description>
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The Food and Drug Administration has determined that the nasty lump a Florida couple found inside a can of Diet Pepsi earlier this summer was either a frog or toad.           ]]></description>
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Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Tempe, Arizona is now under scrutiny by the Secret Service after delivering a hateful sermon praying for the death of President Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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A wildfire burning north of Los Angeles, California has doubled in size and now threatens thousands of homes.           ]]></description>
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Police say Christopher M. Schildt concocted an elaborate scheme to become the oldest student to attend Waterford High School.           ]]></description>
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The federal government could help pay the price of caring for your pet.            ]]></description>
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Highlights in the life of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.           ]]></description>
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A Dayton, Ohio man&#8217;s job search ended with a trip to jail.           ]]></description>
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A new study finds sitting upright in car safety seats can partially compress the chest wall of your child. That reduces the amount of oxygen babies are able to breathe in.           ]]></description>
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Some South Florida firefighters want to heat up your 2010 with a new charity calendar.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s something lurking just under the surface of the Lake Worth Lagoon in West Palm Beach, Florida.            ]]></description>
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China, South Korea and Japan have several already and now the first in-patient treatment center for internet addiction is launching in Fall City, Washington.            ]]></description>
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Police in East Haven say a man stole the 32-foot boat from an auto sales store, and led police on a chase on Interstate 95.           ]]></description>
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An elderly Pierce County, Washington man is under house arrest in the Middle East, allegedly for swearing at a customs officer.           ]]></description>
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The White House says the United States &#8220;deeply regrets&#8221; Scotland&#8217;s decision to release the Libyan man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people.           ]]></description>
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A federal study of mercury contamination has found the toxic substance in every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country.           ]]></description>
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Police in California say they want to talk to a man who was with a former swimsuit model the last time she was seen alive.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s the kind of story you expect to hear out of the depths of the Amazon or on the slopes of Mount Everest. Instead, it&#8217;s a story of survival begins and ends right here in Eastern Iowa.            ]]></description>
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A 17 year old is being charged with reckless assault because a practical joke ending with a skin graft surgery for his friend.            ]]></description>
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A model who was slammed with derogatory terms by an anonymous blogger has the right to learn the identity of her online heckler, a judge ruled.           ]]></description>
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A New York prosecutor says no criminal charges will be filed in a wrong-way crash that killed an intoxicated woman and seven others.           ]]></description>
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NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trying to shut down a debt-collection agency he says uses sexual threats and impersonates police.           ]]></description>
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A new pediatrics specialty is spurring hopes for better treatment of young abuse victims.           ]]></description>
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New students under the age of 22 at the University of Kansas will have to complete a two-hour training course on the effects and dangers of alcohol.            ]]></description>
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