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CHICAGO (AP) - An apologetic Sarah Ferguson told Oprah Winfrey that even though she is in deep financial debt, her ... Read Story »
DENVER (AP) - Aluminum manufacturing giant Alcoa Inc. reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with its largest union ... Read Story »
SHANGHAI (AP) - Honda's car assembly factories in China remained stalled by a strike Tuesday as some workers held out ... Read Story »
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CROSSROADS YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE REGISTRATION: Flag (ages 5-6) , Pee-Wee (ages 6-7), Junior (ages 8-9), Senior (ages 10-12). Fee is ... Read Story »
HERSHEY'S TRACK & FIELD GAMES: Saturday, June 5, 9 a.m., Memorial Stroman campus track. Boys and girls ages 9 to ... Read Story »
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's second-fastest machine in a list issued by U.S. and ... Read Story »
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Negotiations between Alcoa and United Steelworkers continued Monday night. Read Story »
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NEW YORK (AP) - Forget bears and bulls. It's bees that are making waves on Wall Street. Read Story »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana State Museum is using the start of hurricane season to announce a major exhibit ... Read Story »
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VICTORIA - John Christopher Delagarza, 31, of Victoria by deputies Friday on a warrant charging him with felony violation of ... Read Story »
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - An Ohio hiker who went missing for three days in Maine's Baxter State Park says he ... Read Story »
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities are awaiting autopsy and toxicology results after a man died and at least seven other ... Read Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former U.S. ambassador aboard a Gaza aid ship seized by Israel commandos is on his way ... Read Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former U.S. ambassador aboard a Gaza aid ship seized by Israel commandos is on his way ... Read Story »
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COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Robot submarines carried equipment and cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico ... Read Story »
The Delta Mu chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa in Victoria, an international educational sorority working to better the community and ... Read Story »
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - IndyCar driver Davey Hamilton will not compete in Texas after de Ferran Dragon Racing decided to run ... Read Story »
HOUSTON (AP) - Stephen Strasburg is finally ready. Read Story »
Victoria East High School Golden Saber Dance Team Booster Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Memorial High ... Read Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is heading back to the Louisiana coast Friday for a fresh reality check on ... Read Story »
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A man has been accused of stabbing his pregnant girlfriend and her grandmother to death in ... Read Story »
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police are investigating a series of shootings that left seven people dead and three more injured over ... Read Story »
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama voters face a long ballot Tuesday as they pick party nominees for all constitutional offices, ... Read Story »
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has formally requested the extradition of American reality TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman on charges of ... Read Story »
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A former sports medicine director at the University of Kansas claims that athletic director Lew Perkins ... Read Story »
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - A recent tribute to Vietnam veterans drew such big crowds in Green Bay that organizers ... Read Story »
HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) - The Bitterroot National Forest travel plan, which could further restrict motorized travel, will be delayed at ... Read Story »
The supervisor in Des Moines is Luke Meredith. If you have stories of statewide interest or breaking news, please send ... Read Story »
HOUSTON (AP) - Carlos Lee hit a two-run homer in the ninth off Matt Capps after the Astros tied it ... Read Story »
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) - Logging trucks are beginning to roll out of Craig Ueland's property west of Kitsap Lake, but ... Read Story »
CHICAGO (AP) - President Barack Obama is going to deliver his Memorial Day speech after all. Read Story »
GRAND TERRE ISLAND, La. (AP) - Dozens of oil-drenched pelicans floated miserably around Grand Terre Island. A few hobbled onto ... Read Story »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Charleston attorney Tim DiPiero says he's been let go as the agent for New England Patriots ... Read Story »
COCKRELL HILL, Texas (AP) - Officials say a third person has been found dead in the charred ruins of a ... Read Story »
Eds: Editors who used BC-US-MED--Alcohol Bracelet, sent May 25 and datelined in New York, are asked to use the following ... Read Story »
BUDA, Texas (AP) - A retired police inspector's newly acquired metal detecting hobby helped him find dog tags and other ... Read Story »
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Tips to keep in mind if your flight is oversold: Read Story »
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Our local prices are high, just like cable TV, water, and anything that we buy as consumers, thanks to our ... Read Story »
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Today marks the beginning of hurricane season - a long stretch of hot weather, lasting until Nov. 30. Read Story »
Boy, have sensitivities changed since I was a kid in the '70s - especially where sexual harassment is concerned. Read Story »
The number of passengers who gave up seats or were bumped by the airline, and the rate per 10,000 passengers: Read Story »
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A Canadian national who the U.S. government says swindled $70 million from 40,000 investors ... Read Story »
HOUSTON (AP) - A Major League Baseball official says umpire Bill Hohn will be addressed "in a very stern way" ... Read Story »
DALLAS (AP) - Giving up your airline seat may become a little less painful. Read Story »
NEW YORK (AP) - Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly ... Read Story »
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Pop quiz: Does the school curriculum adopted in Texas really wind up in textbooks nationwide? If ... Read Story »
NEW YORK (AP) - Arizona State is No. 1 - for now. Read Story »
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two climbers from Canada have died in an avalanche in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve. Read Story »
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - An engaged eastern Pennsylvania couple were born on the same day in the same hospital - ... Read Story »
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) - Police are trying to determine what caused a car driven by a World War II ... Read Story »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - About two dozen states are going back to Washington for another shot at billions in education grants ... Read Story »
BUDA, Texas (AP) - Dog tags and other items belonging to a Texas soldier wounded during World War II have ... Read Story »
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP) - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has renewed an agreement to use a Somerset County ... Read Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) - The University of the District of Columbia could soon expand to a shuttered school building. Read Story »
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Paulo Sergio Alfaro-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant being held at a detention center in Washington state, had ... Read Story »
NEW YORK (AP) - On a warm spring afternoon, Times Square brims with people jostling for scarce sidewalk space, staking ... Read Story »
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) - The National Park Service will be holding a public meeting in Nebraska to discuss designating the ... Read Story »
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Seven faculty members at South Dakota's public universities have received more than $528,000 in state grants ... Read Story »
ELWOOD, Ill. (AP) - Torrential rain, lightning, thunder and strong winds forced President Barack Obama to cancel a Memorial Day ... Read Story »
Sergio Garcia dribbles through the defense as if soccer, not golf, is his natural calling. He nimbly passes to Rafael ... Read Story »
Sergio Garcia dribbles through the defense as if soccer, not golf, is his natural calling. He nimbly passes to Rafael ... Read Story »
HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP) - The valuable 17th-century letter was hiding in plain sight, available to almost anyone who checked the ... Read Story »
DETROIT (AP) - Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped ... Read Story »
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Travis County sheriff's deputies have charged a 26-year-old man with capital murder in the shooting deaths ... Read Story »
NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. Marine Corps aircraft's powerful propellers whipped up a wind that sent branches hurling off ... Read Story »
BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) - Scores of searchers combed Baxter State Park on Monday to find a 41-year-old Ohio ... Read Story »
HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas Department of Public Safety tracking system shows that Harris County doctors rank first in writing ... Read Story »
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple Inc. said Monday that iPad sales have topped 2 million since its launch almost two ... Read Story »
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - The University of North Dakota medical school has signed its first student contract in its ... Read Story »
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NEW YORK (AP) - The powerful propellers on a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft doing a Memorial Day demonstration has blown ... Read Story »
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Tim Floyd has only been back in El Paso a few weeks, but it's hard ... Read Story »
CHICAGO (AP) - Military aircraft forced a private Cessna aircraft to land near Chicago after it flew into a temporary ... Read Story »
Wayne Gretzky admits it: The Great One is just an average hockey player. Read Story »
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Three airline passengers were treated for minor injuries after evacuating from a plane at a ... Read Story »
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A former federal courthouse in Hammond is getting new life as a church's administrative offices. Read Story »
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Nearly four dozen public and private schools in Indiana are offering Chinese language instruction for credit as ... Read Story »
LONDON (AP) - Forged out of the ashes of World War II and the end of the Cold War, the ... Read Story »
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Scholarships were always going to be necessary for Marissa and Arielle Thornton to afford college. Read Story »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training says mine inspectors issued more than 100 ... Read Story »
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Budget problems mean most faculty and staff at Kansas State University will not receive merit pay ... Read Story »
CHICAGO (AP) - President Barack Obama voiced "deep regret" over Monday's deadly Israeli commando raids, and the White House said ... Read Story »
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - Southeast Missouri State University will begin offering a four-year agri-business degree at its regional campuses ... Read Story »
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Monticello will soon open up a number of new features on Thomas Jefferson's famed estate, many ... Read Story »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Responding to suggestions that the military should take the lead in responding to the oil spill ... Read Story »
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Eighteen students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are studying Japanese visual culture in Kyoto and Tokyo ... Read Story »
FREDONIA, Ariz. (AP) - Crews have finished replanting about 900 acres in northern Arizona's Kaibab National Forest that were burned ... Read Story »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Two organizations are teaming up to celebrate West Virginia's birthday with a free concert at Haddad ... Read Story »
SAIPAN, Northern Marianas (AP) - A volcanic eruption near the Pacific's Northern Mariana Islands shot clouds of ash and vapor ... Read Story »
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with his handgun in Alaska's Denali National Park, ... Read Story »
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - For Rex Nichols, the right person to guard against unrestrained federal power encroaching on the rural ... Read Story »
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Kobi Graham, a lifeguard star of the Australian reality television series "Bondi Rescue," said Monday he ... Read Story »
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) - President Barack Obama said Monday that the meaning of Memorial Day is found ... Read Story »
DETROIT (AP) - A documentary from a pair of Dutch filmmakers about urban farming at a Detroit school for pregnant ... Read Story »
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The Fayetteville Museum of Art's ambitious plans to build a nine-story, $15 million home designed by ... Read Story »
NORTH BRANCH, Minn. (AP) - The longtime director of a classical music festival in Rhode Island has been killed in ... Read Story »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of ... Read Story »
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Historic aircraft escorted a B-17 bomber before it dropped flowers over the Statue of Liberty in ... Read Story »
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BAKER, HOLLIS O., 81, of Yorktown: Visitation, 12 to 9 p.m., family receiving friends, 6-8 p.m., Finch Funeral Chapels, Yorktown, ... Read Story »
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Blake Payne already had a formidable repertoire. But he felt he still needed more. Read Story »
SAN ANTONIO - These days, Dr. Amanda Marshall keeps busy performing orthopedic surgeries and conducting research in San Antonio. Read Story »
The death of a man in a car crash and a separate multi-vehicle pileup marred the Memorial Day weekend in ... Read Story »
Monday marked 93-year-old Elsie Wurdel-Koehl's second time performing a special task at the county's annual Memorial Day Program. Read Story »
The University of Houston-Victoria is adding new programs and faculty in the fall, and it's not just because freshmen and ... Read Story »
Plans for a 2010 Project Graduation at Memorial High School almost fell through. Read Story »
BAY CITY - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold an open house Thursday to inform the public about how the ... Read Story »
Suspect: Edward James Garrett Jr. is wanted on five outstanding warrants charging him with theft. Read Story »
Construction continues on the two new high schools and middle school. All three schools are scheduled to open in August. Read Story »
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