Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:52 PM EDT
Ernie Els will concentrate on playing the PGA Tour next year.
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Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:20 PM EDT
A Chinese drywall manufacturer, along with suppliers, builders and insurers, agreed Thursday to repair up to 300 homes in four states and possibly thousands more damaged by corrosive drywall.
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Wed Oct 6, 2010 12:19 AM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden has told Democrats at a Minnesota fundraiser that he'll "strangle" members of the GOP who complain about the federal budget.
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Fri Oct 1, 2010 4:41 AM EDT
Latvia's center-right government was poised to stay in power Sunday after voters backed its plans to continue painful reforms required by an international bailout program to fix the Baltic country's crippled economy.
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Wed Sep 8, 2010 3:15 AM EDT
The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.
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Tue Sep 7, 2010 10:32 AM EDT
"Borrow me $5 can?" may not be the most graceful way to ask for a few dollars, but it's music to the ears of many Singaporeans.
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Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:11 PM EDT
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock returned Sunday to the New Orleans high school she helped rebuild for the opening of an on-campus health clinic.
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Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:39 PM EDT
BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the British company, with activists and professors on the famously liberal campus calling for a severing of ties.
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Sun Jul 4, 2010 1:14 PM EDT
Davontae Sanford was just 14 when he told police he killed four people in a drug den, drawing their bodies like stick figures to show where the victims died — on the floor, a couch, a chair.
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Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:42 PM EDT
Hawaiian Airlines Inc. said Wednesday it is launching service to South Korea as part of its ambitious expansion into Asia and to cash in on the fast-growing number of Korean visitors to the islands.
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Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:06 PM EDT
An Interior Department official says the government is expected soon to issue more permits for drilling in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:05 AM EDT
Hungry children looking for a free meal this summer may not be able to find one.
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Sat May 29, 2010 4:24 PM EDT
The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan had already fallen once to a hidden explosive, driving his Humvee over a bomb in Iraq in 2007. The blast punched the dashboard radio into his face and broke his leg in two places.
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Tue May 18, 2010 4:01 PM EDT
The U.S. Department of Education found that Virginia Tech broke federal campus security laws by waiting too long to notify students during the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, a report released Tuesday said.
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Thu May 13, 2010 10:19 AM EDT
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the men taken into custody in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt apparently provided money to would-be bomber Faisal Shahzad.
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Thu May 6, 2010 4:59 PM EDT
An outbreak of E. coli poisoning has expanded to Tennessee, where one more person has been sickened after eating romaine lettuce grown on an Arizona farm.
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Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:31 PM EDT
The Agriculture Department says it may ban two synthetic additives from organic baby formula, overturning a Bush administration decision to allow them.
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:49 AM EDT
Attorneys for a Utah inmate scheduled to be killed by firing squad have asked a judge to put the execution on hold while they appeal.
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Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:30 PM EDT
When the Rev. George Davis learned the government was coming to take his family's home to make room for a shiny new interstate, he told his loved ones he'd defend 304 Rondo Avenue with a shotgun.
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Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:05 AM EDT
Kids will always grab pizza and dessert in the school lunch line, but those items may be healthier in coming school years if Democrats in Congress succeed in toughening rules governing the nation's school lunches.
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Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:02 AM EDT
California's budget crisis and overcrowded prisons have led to a new reality for thousands of convicted felons: Parole is getting a lot easier — no more random drug tests, travel rules or requirements to check in with an officer.
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:51 PM EDT
Owen Elementary, which closed in 2006, stands open to any who dare to take on its dark, winding hallways and shadowy classrooms on Detroit's southwest side.
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:20 AM EDT
Michelle Obama is urging the nation's largest food companies to speed up efforts to make healthier foods and reduce marketing of unhealthy foods to children.
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Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:52 AM EST
A Filipino militant wanted by Washington has become leader of a key faction of Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group in the southern Philippines for which he has previously acquired foreign funding, the Philippine military says.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:51 AM EST
The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.
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