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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
With gas costing more than a college education, I’ve become quite the hypermiler.
Hypermilers are drivers who exceed EPA estimated mileage on their vehicles and reduce emissions by modifying their driving habits.
You know who we are.
We’re the ones who avoid the accelerator and go 10 miles under the speed limit ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
NEW YORK -- Three police detectives have been found not guilty of all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell.
Officers Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper were acquitted of all counts 17 months after Bell died in a hail of 50 police bullets. The unarmed man was shot ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury will start sending tax rebate checks to Americans next week, ahead of its previous schedule, and aims to pump $50 billion into the U.S. economy by the end of May, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday.
"We will start a bit earlier. We're a ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
HONOLULU -- Aircraft experts are racing to get a specially-modified plane ready to help recover 12 people on one of the most remote islands in the Pacific Ocean.Palmyra Island is about 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii owns the island that is protected as a national ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.
Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994 and 1998, was ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
BOSTON (AP) -- Two-time defending champion Robert Cheruiyot won his fourth Boston Marathon in near-ideal conditions on Monday, while Dire Tune outsprinted Alevtina Biktimirova by two seconds in the closest finish in the history of the women's race.
Kenya's Cheruiyot ran away from the pack to finish the 26.2-mile course from ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
BOSTON (AP) — The 112th Boston Marathon got started Monday with defending champion Robert Cheruiyot and a field of more than 25,000 runners leaving the starting line in Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile run to Copley Square.
Cheruiyot was looking for his fourth Boston win. Lidiya Grigoryeva, last year's women's winner, was ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Two or three people are killed each day by others in Los Angeles County. Most of them died anonymously until Jill Leovy and her blog, The Homicide Report, came along.
For more than a year, Leovy made it her job to document every homicide in Los ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Cynthia Sommer, accused of fatally poisoning her Miramar Marine husband with arsenic, spent two years and four months behind bars. Yesterday, the 34-year-old mother of four walked out of the Las Colinas jail a free woman, after prosecutors dropped the murder case against her.
Cynthia Sommer
Prosecutors said they now have ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
News Corp's purchase of the Wall Street Journal last year apparently provided satirists with enough content for a parody paper. According to the New York Times, the paper, My Wall Street Journal, aims to skewer News Corp, its properties, Rupert Murdoch, politicians, and Wall Street characters.
The paper was prematurely released ...
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