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AP – A 23-year-old beauty queen from Kenosha, Wis., won the Miss America pageant Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown.

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AP – Contestants from Iowa, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Illinois have been eliminated from the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas, leaving five contestants in the running for the title with three competitions to come.

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AP – Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.

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The German man busted as the suspected firebug who torched more than 50 cars in Los Angeles had a message for the cop who cuffed him Monday: “I hate America.” Harry Burkhart, 24, spoke the smear after he was yanked from his minivan near the Sunset Strip about 3 a.m. by a Beverly Hills real estate attorney who moonlights as a reserve sheriff’s deputy, witnesses told LA Weekly.

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Crouch: “Soul Food Junkies” is a documentary being made by Byron Hurt; he is presently raising money to finish it. My own nickname for him is “Braveheart” because of his willingness to bring complexity to issues that affect black people first, but are bound to become troubling to the country at large because they are not the result of genetics. They are the result of exploitation or misunderstanding.

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A year out from the election finds President Obama in parlous political circumstances.

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AP – Bank of America Corp. is scrapping its plan to charge a $5 monthly fee for debit card purchases after outraged customers threatened an exodus.

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