AUSTIN, Texas – Yeehaw! Texans who brag they do things bigger and better now can go faster too. State transportation officials on Thursday boosted speed limits on two stretches of rural highway from 75 mph to 80 mph — the United States’ highest posted speed limit. More speed signs will …
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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are again trying to stop horses from being slaughtered and sent abroad for food. The House adopted a provision Thursday that would prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from selling wild horses and burros to slaughterhouses. By voice vote, the amendment was attached to a spending bill …
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WASHINGTON – A Democratic research group is accusing the New Hampshire Republican Party of illegally accepting a $10,000 contribution from a Mississippi Indian tribe in 2002, then concealing half of it because it exceeded the $5,000 cap on contributions for federal races. Two pro-gambling Indian tribes that were clients of …
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A timeline of events surrounding the killing of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl: April 5, 1980 — Sister Margaret Ann Pahl‘s body is found in the chapel at Mercy Hospital. She had been strangled and stabbed in the chest and neck about 30 times. April 9, 1980 — The Rev. Gerald …
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SALT LAKE CITY – Utah has launched an organized-crime investigation into a polygamist sect and its fugitive leader Warren Jeffs, now on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. Jeffs is already wanted on Utah and Arizona charges alleging he arranged plural marriages of underage girls. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said …
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LOS ANGELES – Once upon a TV season, a gay man named Will and a straight woman named Grace became unexpected sitcom darlings, challenging television’s timidity toward homosexuality and buffing NBC’s comedy crown. Eight years after the debut of “Will & Grace,” as the saga of the platonic pals draws …
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WASHINGTON – The constitutional showdown that followed the FBI‘s search of a congressman’s office came down to this: The House threatened budgetary retaliation against the Justice Department. Justice officials raised the prospect of resigning. That scenario, as described Saturday by a senior administration official, set the stage for President Bush’s …
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ST. LOUIS – One might think that other big U.S. brewers would be happy with Anheuser-Busch Cos. (BUD), which is spending millions on a national ad campaign to promote beer drinking over wine or cocktails. But last Friday, Miller Brewing Co. sent its regards to Anheuser-Busch by hiring a pilot …
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A 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific island nation of Tonga Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning to be issued. — A tsunami is a series of waves of extremely long wave length and long period. — It is generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that vertically …
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