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Fans roar as Giants’ victory parade rolls into NYC (AP)

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:26:16 +0000

AP – Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team’s Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday as the victory parade made its way down the Canyon of Heroes, where the city has honored stars for almost a century.

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Prosecutors close investigation into Armstrong allegations

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:48:47 +0000

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced they have shut down their two-year investigation into allegations that seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and his cycling team used banned drugs to boost performances.

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Student arrested after trying to take loaded gun into Bronx school

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:18:08 +0000

A Bronx student was arrested after trying to bring a loaded handgun into school Tuesday, authorities said.

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Lego Man launched 14 miles into sky

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:40:09 +0000

Two 17-year-old high-school students from Toronto have boldly sent a Lego Man where he’d never gone before: space.

Well, not quite space but 14 miles above sea level — three times above where airlines cruise.

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Analysis: Gingrich forces GOP into grueling debate (AP)

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:02:19 +0000

AP – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took a giant step Saturday toward becoming the Republican alternative to Mitt Romney that tea partyers and social conservatives have been seeking for months.

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US says al-Qaida magazine got into Guantanamo cell (AP)

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:59:20 +0000

AP – A copy of a magazine published by an arm of al-Qaida made its way to a terror suspect at the Guantanamo Bay prison, leading to an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring special review teams to examine correspondence between prisoners and attorneys, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday.

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‘Haywire’ kicks Gina Carano into acting big time

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:43:41 +0000

There aren’t many things on the face of this Earth that can scare Gina Carano. Not when the 29-year-old Texan survived years getting kneed in the ribs for a living as a professional mixed martial arts champion.

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Russia’s Mars probe crashes into Pacific Ocean: report

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:00:17 +0000

Splashdown! Remnants of the Russian probe that failed to escape Earth orbit crashed into the Pacific Ocean Sunday, according to the Russian news agency, Interfax.

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Lost leg, won a mint, hauled into court

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:09:57 +0000

A BENTLEY-DRIVING Long Island man — who won a $16 million judgment over a clash with a cop in which he lost a leg — is now on trial for roughing up a woman in a post-pub fight, sources said. Thomas Hartmann, 42, got rich when, sources say, a federal panel awarded him the massive payout in 2010 — but he got into trouble with the law the next year for allegedly punching ex-stripper Sophia Kandelaki, 37, hours after meeting her in a Manhattan bar.

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Panetta assures Afghans of full probe into video (AP)

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:07:43 +0000

AP – Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.

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