State News
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UCLA defeats Wolfpack 2-1 at College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Never has a team swinging metal bats produced so few runs through two College World Series games yet found itself in such an enviable position.
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North Carolina ousts Tigers from CWS with 4-2 win
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Home runs are few and far between at the College World Series these days, which made Brian Holberton's first-inning shot all the more important for North Carolina.
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North Carolina ousts Tigers from CWS with 4-2 win
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brian Holberton homered, freshman Trent Thornton pitched a strong seven innings and No. 1 national seed North Carolina extended its stay at the College World Series with a 4-2 victory over LSU on Tuesday.
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Oregon St. sends Cards packing with 11-4 CWS win
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — It's one down and three to go for Oregon State.
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Christian college expels lesbian, charges tuition
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Danielle Powell was going through a hard time in the spring of 2011, just months away from graduating from a conservative Christian college in Nebraska. She had fallen in love with another woman, a strictly forbidden relationship at a school where even prolonged hugs were banned.
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National News
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3 Navy football players accused of sexual assault
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman more than a year ago.
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As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.
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Traffic returns to Wash. bridge that collapsed
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
Sports News
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3 Navy football players accused of sexual assault
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman more than a year ago.
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A title, and legacies, on the line for Heat, Spurs
MIAMI (AP) — Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.
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Yankees spoil Mattingly's return to Bronx
NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees fans showed Don Mattingly the love from the moment he took the lineup card to home plate Wednesday. Hiroki Kuroda, though, wasn't feeling nostalgic when facing his old team.
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Board backs turning Astrodome into convention hall
HOUSTON (AP) — A county board has recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space.
Ag News
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As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.
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Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone.
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Food stamp cuts key to farm bill's fate in House
WASHINGTON (AP) — House passage of a massive farm bill could turn on the level of food stamp cuts as key backers scrambled Wednesday to secure support for the five-year, half-trillion dollar measure.
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Monsoon floods kill 102 in India, strand pilgrims
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — India's prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially.
Business News
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Car quality dinged by tech glitches, survey finds
DETROIT (AP) — Car buyers increasingly want high-tech features like voice recognition and navigation. But they're not very forgiving of the car company when those systems fail.
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Fed suggests it's closer to slowing bond purchases
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by saying the Federal Reserve will likely slow its bond-buying program later this year and end it next year because the economy is strengthening.
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Stocks slide as Fed says bond purchases could slow
NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year and end it by the middle of 2014.
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Men's Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman Zimmer
NEW YORK (AP) — Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore.
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