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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — It was a sight to make a classic car lover weep: A gaping sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight prized cars like they were toys, piling them in a heap amid loose dirt and concrete fragments. It happened early Wednesday morning while the attraction […]
America’s $1 trillion student loan debt and astronomical tuition costs have caused many to weigh the heavy price of attending college. As for the young…
WASHINGTON (AP) — After pummeling wide swaths of the South, a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic region as it marched Northeast and threatened more power outages, traffic headaches and widespread closures for millions of residents. Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow, measured in Pimlico, the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comcast Corp. has confirmed that it agreed to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in stock, or $158.82 per share, in a deal that would combine the nation’s top two cable TV companies. The deal will make Comcast, which also owns NBCUniversal, a dominant force in both creating […]
African Students Association, a group of U.S.-based African students (pic, at Ithaca College are confronting archaic Western views about the continent through a photo campaign,…
WASHINGTON — In a concession to President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, House Speaker John Boehner (pictured) said Tuesday the House will vote to increase…
First Lady Michelle Obama has become one of the most recognized faces in the battle against childhood obesity in recent years. Whether motivating the youth…
ATLANTA (AP) — Emergency management workers hunkered down in Atlanta waiting to spring into action as rain — and temperatures — fell overnight, potentially leading to “catastrophic” ice conditions that forecasters said could hit the region. Already, Georgia Power was reporting more than 2,000 power outages early Wednesday throughout the state. Forecasters and officials said […]
Just when you thought the spectacle of George Zimmerman putting on the boxing gloves to fight was over and done with, along comes news that the former neighborhood watch volunteer and child killer will still get in the ring. The big difference is that rapper DMX will not be the one in the ring with […]
A little over 8.7 million pounds of meat from a Northern California company have been recalled because they came from “diseased and unsound” animals that…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning against eating Uncle Ben’s rice products served at schools, restaurants, hospitals and other food service institutions after children in three states had skin reactions and other symptoms that were linked to the rice. Mars Foodservices of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., is recalling 5- and 25-pound bags […]
DENVER (AP) — Eerie self-portraits that Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes took with his cellphone hours before the attack could be shown to jurors after the judge ruled that prosecutors can use evidence from the phone at his trial. Other photos on the phone amount to surveillance of the theater taken up to three […]
