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- October home sales rise 10.1 pct from September
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit. Home sales nationwide are now up nearly 37…
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WRAL- Gosselin divorce could be finalized soon, attorney…
- ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Jon Gosselin offered his estranged wife a bouquet of red roses at their divorce arbitration hearing over the weekend. She evidently turned them down. Despite the snub, the marathon session went so well that the feuding…
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ClickOnDetroit.com- Three Mile Island radiation caused by pipe cutting
- HARRISBURG, Pa. -Officials are trying to determine how workers cutting a pipe stirred up radioactive dust at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis said Monday that the public was not endangered Saturday,…
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ClickOnDetroit.com- GM wants gov'ts to help pay $4.9 bn restructuring
- General Motors Co. on Monday asked European governments to help pay most of the euro3.3 billion ($4.9 billion) it needs to restructure its struggling European operations. At talks in Brussels Monday, EU nations where GM has plants vowed to…
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WPTV- Sector Snap: Homebuilders mostly higher after big jump in…
- NEW YORK - Shares of most homebuilders moved higher Monday after a big jump in house resales last month. The National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes climbed 10.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.1…
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Boston Globe- Sen. Schumer: Public Option Can Pass Senate
- Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate. Schumer said he is assuring his more conservative Democratic colleagues that the public option included in the Senate bill is "modest"…
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Boston Globe- Report: Western Kentucky hires Stanford's Taggart as coach
- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the decision says winless Western Kentucky has hired Stanford assistant Willie Taggart as its football coach. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the…
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- Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years
- A mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed. Rom Houben had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had sunk…
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Ananova- Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy
- ATHENS, Greece— The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films. CEO Jim Gianopulos said Internet…
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- Chaplin's Last Home To Become Museum
- GENEVA -- Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday. The mansion at Corsier-sur-Vevey by the shores…
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News4Jax.com- Katy dad backs daughter in murder-for-hire case
- An 18-year-old Katy honors student charged alongside her mother with trying to hire someone to kill her father walked out of court this morning with her dad's arms wrapped around her.
- Houston Chronicle
- Money ills bring Jackson doctor to Acres Homes
- Embattled Conrad Murray has returned to his Acres Homes clinic for the first time since the overdose death of his famous patient, Michael Jackson. "He needs to earn a living, his lawyer said.
- Houston Chronicle
- Q&A: Meet the pope's astronomer
- Brother Guy Consolmagno, the curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, will give a free public lecture in the Clear Lake area.
- Houston Chronicle
