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Fla. highway patrol defends reopening I-75 (AP)
AP – Minutes before two pileups killed 10 people on a highway shrouded in fog and thick smoke from a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the always busy six-lane interstate after an earlier serious accident. A sergeant and lieutenant determined after about three hours that conditions had cleared enough for drivers, but visibility quickly became murky again, officials said Monday.
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Romney defends investments, readies tax returns (AP)
AP – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized rival Newt Gingrich for earning more than $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac even though he has as much as $500,000 invested in the U.S.-backed lender and its sister entity, Fannie Mae.
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Woman with Italian ship captain defends his effort (AP)
AP – A young Moldovan woman who says she was called to the bridge of the stricken Costa Concordia to help evacuate Russian passengers defended the embattled captain on Thursday, saying he worked tirelessly and “saved over 3,000 lives.”
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Woman with ship captain defends his actions (AP)
AP – A young Moldovan woman who says she was with the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it rammed into a Tuscan reef emerged as a potential new witness Thursday in the investigation into the captain’s actions that night.
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Gingrich defends Bain criticisms in SC GOP forum (AP)
AP – Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Saturday that Republicans will err if they don’t scrutinize Mitt Romney’s role in a private equity firm called Bain Capital.
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Romney defends business record in face of attacks (AP)
AP – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday defended his time in private business and insisted he understands the country’s tough economic times because he once feared losing his job.
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Gov’t defends core of health care overhaul (AP)
AP – The Obama administration defended the health care overhaul in a filing Friday with the Supreme Court that calls the law an appropriate response to a “crisis in the national health care market.”
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