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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Told that her lover had died, the young woman drove for hours to the man's home in Virginia, traveling with her mother and sister to offer condolences. But the man who answered the door said her friend, Navy Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, was alive and hardly ailing: He had moved to Connecticut […]

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Valerie Spruill decided to reveal her bizarre story to a small Ohio paper, the Akron Beacon, about a family secret that is so unimaginable that it can make anyone’s skin crawl.  What did it take years for her to reveal?  Six years after her husband passed away in 1998, Spruill found out that he was in fact her biological […]

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Well, those big numbers touted by the GOP each month this summer that showed Mitt Romney raking in scads more money than President Obama in campaign donations over the past few months won’t really help the Republican presidential nominee as much as first thought. According to The New York Times, much of the $300 million […]

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A new study finds that taste sensitivity can be linked to obesity issues. German researchers found that obese children have less sensitive taste buds than children of normal weight, which can lead to overeating. The study examined the taste sensitivity of 200 children between the ages of 6 and 18. Over half of the children […]

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LAS VEGAS (AP)- Brian Banks, a one-time high school football star who was recently exonerated in a California rape case in which he was falsely accused, is finally getting a chance to play professional football. The 26-year-old Banks, a linebacker, is signing with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League, a move the […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge Thursday refused to order YouTube to take down the film trailer that has inflamed the Muslim world, rejecting a plea from an actress who says she was duped into appearing in the project. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin rejected the request from Cindy Lee Garcia, an […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No. 1 killer among Hispanics in the U.S., and the rest of the country may be only a few years behind. The change is not exactly cause for alarm. Death rates for both cancer and heart disease have been dropping for Hispanics and everyone […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell only slightly last week to a seasonally adjusted 382,000. The level suggests hiring remains weak. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications declined by 3,000 from the previous week, which was revised up. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the fifth […]

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Click here to listen to Tom and J. Anthony Brown's hilarious take on the story. A Marion County man has been accused of having sexual acts with a miniature donkey named "Doodle." Carlos Romero, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the charges of animal cruelty and his bail was set at $2,000 dollars. According to […]

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STOCKHOLM (AP) – Swedish police are searching for a thief who found an inebriated man unconscious on subway tracks, stole his valuables and then left him there to be hit by a train. A surveillance camera captured the incident at a Stockholm subway station early Sunday. A video clip broadcast Wednesday by Sweden's SVT shows […]

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Is your mouth-watering yet? McDonalds has announced the return of the McRib which is slated to be back in your McDonald's bag starting in December. The sandwich consists of boneless rib meat, onions, pickles, and barbeque sauce. Originally the McRib was set to be back on the heat rack this October, but even with the […]

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MIAMI (AP) — Stepping up his criticism of Mitt Romney's caught-on-tape moment, President Barack Obama said Thursday that his Republican rival's comments about voters suggest he doesn't know Americans very well. "When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is […]