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Rare Baseball Card Sells for $1.2M at Auction
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A New Jersey man paid $1.2 million for a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card in an online auction that brought interest from many potential buyers who had never owned a card before, the sale organizer said.
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Mommy Wars Give Way to Doggy Wars in Twitterverse
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Barack Obama and Bo, the Obama family dog, ride in the presidential motorcade en route to PetSmart in Alexandria, Va. The President bought Bo some Christmas gifts at the pet store then walked nearby to Best Buy to purchase gifts for his daughters.
NEW YORK (AP) — So let's get all the puns out of the way, shall we? It's the issue with legs — four of them. The doggone thing won't go away. Has the presidential race just gone to the dogs? Or are we simply in those dog days between the primary season and the start of the general election?
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Reporter attempts to describe taste of hemp vodka
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:00AM April 20, 2012 Comment (1)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As a beer drinker, I knew I was out of my league when I tried to open up the bottle of Purgatory.
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Md. Becomes First to OK Password Protection Bill
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their log-in information for social media sites like Facebook.
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Orangutans sit still for heart ultrasound at zoo
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:12AM April 20, 2012 CommentATLANTA (AP) — The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart.
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Woman charged with murder of Calif. Marine wife
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33AM April 20, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Paramedics found Jessica Lynn Lopez in a hotel room with self-inflicted wounds and a suicide note. Hours later authorities found the body of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife in brush near a Southern California lake. Two days later Lopez was charged with her murder.
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Pass the hemp vodka this 4/20
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:58AM April 20, 2012 CommentWASILLA, Alaska (AP) — During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, you'll be invited to pour yourself a drink instead of lighting up.
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Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:56AM April 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president moves into re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses.
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FDA: Gulf Seafood Safe Despite Oil Spill Concerns
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Photos of fish with sores may raise concern about long-term environmental effects of the massive BP oil spill — but federal health officials say the Gulf seafood that's on the market is safe to eat.
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Are Vinyl Records Hip? Popular Music Goes 'Old School'
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Think Katy Perry and vinyl, and a hip-hugging dress might come to mind.
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Levon Helm, Key Member of The Band, Dies at 71
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In this Oct. 9, 2009 file photo, Levon Helm performs with his band on the "Imus in the Morning" program on the Fox Business channel, in New York.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," ''The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.
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Safety, location at issue if Zimmerman is released
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:52PM April 19, 2012 CommentORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After spending a week in a jail cell by himself, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin stands a good chance of being granted bail Friday, despite the severity of the second-degree murder charge he faces.
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Ousted Secret Service supervisor joked about Palin
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:47PM April 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted in the agency's ongoing prostitution scandal joked on Facebook that he was checking out former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as he protected her during the 2008 campaign.
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Honda appeal seeks to reverse hybrid owner's award
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:37PM April 19, 2012 CommentTORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Lawyers for American Honda Motor Co. returned to court Thursday to try to overturn a highly publicized small claims court award to a woman who sued over the fuel economy of her hybrid Honda Civic.
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Navy seeks ouster of 2 Marines after Haditha case
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:24PM April 19, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy on Thursday initiated dismissal proceedings against two Marines from a squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005, saying they lied to military investigators after the massacre.
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NYC basement searched for boy who vanished in 1979
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:32PM April 19, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Police and the FBI searched a Manhattan basement Thursday for the remains of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons.
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VA to add about 1,900 to mental health staff
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:13PM April 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday it was increasing its staff of mental health workers by roughly 1,900, part of an effort to address a shortage of specialists and to better prepare for the medical needs of veterans returning home from war.
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Judge in Edwards case cancels hearing on subpoena
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:54PM April 19, 2012 CommentGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The judge overseeing John Edwards' criminal trial has canceled a hearing on whether to quash a subpoena issued to a former speech writer for the two-time presidential candidate.
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Cruise line: Captain never told of disabled boat
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:39PM April 19, 2012 CommentRIO HATO, Panama (AP) — A Panamanian man and his two friends had been drifting for 16 days in an open fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean when they saw a huge white ship. They would be saved, they thought, and Adrian Vasquez began waving a dark red sweater.
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2 supervisors in prostitution scandal identified
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:18PM April 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The identities of two Secret Service supervisors who have been pushed out of the agency in the wake of a prostitution scandal have been revealed.
