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Schumer: Senate should vote soon on Ryan budget
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21PM September 06, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sen. Chuck Schumer says he wants the Senate to vote soon on the Ryan budget to put Republicans, including presidential running mates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, on the defensive.
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Sex researcher's son charged with exposing self
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:54AM September 06, 2012 CommentDETROIT (AP) — A pioneering sex researcher's son who was cited for masturbating in New York's Central Park earlier this year was arrested in a rural Michigan sting operation for allegedly exposing himself to two female undercover investigators.
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Rain aids battle against California forest fire
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:50AM September 06, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters braced for drier weather Thursday after remnants of a tropical storm helped them gain ground on a 4,180-acre blaze in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.
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Obama advisers don't expect big bounce in polls
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:47AM September 06, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama will lay out his vision for a second term, even as advisers say they don't anticipate a big bounce in the polls following the Democratic National Convention.
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Small theaters struggle as Hollywood goes digital
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:57AM September 06, 2012 CommentCRETE, Neb. (AP) — The Isis Theatre hasn't changed much since it opened 86 years ago in southeast Nebraska, a stone's throw from the grain elevator and railroad tracks that cut through town.
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Obama sister, brother-in-law: They haven't changed
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:59AM September 06, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michelle Obama's brother says the first lady was reluctant to enter politics, but she is thriving as 'mom-in-chief.'
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Ben & Jerry's sues over trademark violation
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:55AM September 06, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Ben & Jerry's considers "Ben & Cherry's" in bad taste.
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Convention can be profitable for small businesses
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54AM September 06, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — For entrepreneurs outside the Democratic National Convention, the easy part may be the hours of smoking meat, screen-printing T-shirts or pumping out pedicab rides.
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NY court weighs if lap dance is tax-exempt art
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10AM September 06, 2012 CommentALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the same tax exemption other performances enjoy, a lawyer argued in what was surely one of the racier tax cases ever to go before New York's highest court.
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Transgender-inmate ruling is movement's latest win
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08AM September 06, 2012 CommentYears ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society that treated them like outcasts.
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Sheriff describes Ohio Amish beard-cutting scene
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:01PM September 05, 2012 CommentCLEVELAND (AP) — The sheriff in a county with one of the nation's biggest Amish settlements testified Wednesday that residents were upset and screaming after a community leader had his beard and hair cut by fellow Amish in a nighttime home invasion.
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NY court to decide if lap dance is tax-exempt art
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:52PM September 05, 2012 CommentALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the same tax exemption other performances enjoy, a lawyer argued Wednesday in what was surely one of the racier tax cases ever to go before New York's highest court.
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Judge OKs contentious part of Ariz immigration law
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:46PM September 05, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Arizona authorities can enforce the most contentious section of the state's heavily debated immigration law, according to a federal judge's ruling Wednesday regarding a section of the statute that critics have dubbed the "show me your papers" provision.
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Reported theft of Romney tax records being probed
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:20PM September 05, 2012 CommentFRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — The Secret Service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Franklin. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1 million not to make them public.
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Rain aids battle against California forest fire
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:27PM September 05, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Light rainfall and cooler temperatures are helping firefighters gain ground on a blaze in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.
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In Peterson trial, jurors quickly confront hearsay
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:16PM September 05, 2012 CommentJOLIET, Ill. (AP) — As they began deliberations Wednesday, jurors in Drew Peterson's trial immediately zeroed in on the case's trickiest issue: whether to believe secondhand hearsay statements that would often be barred from consideration in a criminal court.
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Judge to try case against KC bishop, diocese
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:09PM September 05, 2012 CommentKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The criminal case against the highest-ranking Catholic official in the U.S. to be charged with shielding an abusive priest is headed for a swift ending after prosecutors and the bishop's lawyer agreed Wednesday to let a judge — not jurors — decide the case.
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Oil from BP spill uncovered by Isaac's waves
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:58PM September 05, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Waves from Hurricane Isaac uncovered oil previously buried along Gulf Coast beaches, exposing crude that wasn't cleaned up after the BP spill in 2010.
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7-year-old Colo. girl recovers from bubonic plague
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:37PM September 05, 2012 CommentDENVER (AP) — The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado.
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Ryan Praises Bill Clinton On Day of His DNC Speech
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:07PM September 05, 2012 CommentADEL, Iowa (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Wednesday held Bill Clinton up as a model of reform and Barack Obama as his opposite, hours before the former president's speech to the Democratic National Convention.
