State and local police in south Georgia are involved in a frantic search for a Marietta couple who disappeared after going to purchase a car from a seller they contacted online. Telfair County Sheriff Chris Steverson said the Georgia State Patrol’s aviation unit has joined local officials searching Telfair and …
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GREENVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina schools have partially lifted a ban on junk food. State Education Superintendent Molly Spearman has lifted a complete ban on selling unhealthy snacks in schools. Some sales can take place for certain, approved fundraisers, multiple media outlets reported Sunday. The prohibition started last July under …
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LONDON – Britain’s Labour Party has launched an election campaign targeting women voters but its chosen vehicle, a bright pink bus, has backfired even before it hit the road. The bus’s color has drawn scorn and ridicule, with some calling it patronizing and sexist. Critics on Twitter compared it to …
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BOSTON – As a judge questioned prospective jurors Friday in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one woman described her struggle to try to push aside a haunting image she saw in the days after the deadly attack. “The image of him putting the backpack behind that …
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PUEBLO, Colo. – A Pueblo public school system and a Colorado Springs magnet school are among 30 schools that have one more year to improve state accountability scores or face state sanctions. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette (http://tinyurl.com/pa384y3 ), action against the 30 schools was scheduled to begin this …
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SALT LAKE CITY – Police were forced to step in during a tense standoff in a polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border when members of Warren Jeffs’ sect blocked a former follower from taking her children. Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter said deputies were in Colorado City, Arizona, …
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DENVER – Officials say a Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Las Vegas to Milwaukee was diverted to Denver Friday night after reporting “pressurization issues.” Denver International Airport spokeswoman Laura Coale says that Flight 100, which departed Las Vegas at 6 p.m. PDT, diverted to Denver after about 90 minutes. She …
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LAS VEGAS – A federal judge in Las Vegas has issued an order barring Allegiant Air pilots from going on strike while mediation is under way in their labor dispute. Judge Andrew Gordon ruled Friday that International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1224 can’t strike in order to gain leverage over …
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho – A Twin Falls County sheriff’s spokeswoman says a 73-year-old man has died in a parachute jump off a bridge over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. The Twin Falls Times-News reports (http://is.gd/cDoxoG ) that spokeswoman Lori Stewart says the man’s parachute deployed too late and he …
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A new book aimed at “exposing the billionaire class” says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ investments in patented fertilizers, fake meat and U.S. farmland aren’t saving the planet but rather enriching his bank account. “Controligarchs,” which hits bookshelves Tuesday, examines billionaires like Bill Gates and how their wealth controls the levers …
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