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Tickets for air fresheners?

Citations, warnings for windshield obstructions up 91% since 2004 Ermir Spahiu was pulled over by police for his window-mounted GPS unit. For Tina Ross, it was her handicapped placard. And Mark Hubbard was nailed for an air...

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Baltimore mayor's trial to start in gift-card scandal

BALTIMORE -- The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of...

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Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive

HUAMPAMI, Peru — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his...

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Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, Donald Schenk stands on the back porch of his home in Schaumburg, Ill., Schenk has been out of work for over a year. It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless...

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Zimbabwe: GNU Collapse Spells Doom for All Parties Involved -- Analysts

THE collapse of the inclusive government will deprive President Robert Mugabe of political legitimacy, derail the MDC's quest for political, social and economic development and at the same time worsen the living standards of...

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Shortage of military therapists creates strain

FILE - Dr. Layton McCurdy, a psychiatrist and dean emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina who served on the task force, said the shortage continues with the thousands of troops needing help because of...

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D.C. sniper prosecutor a death penalty veteran

By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Virginia prosecutor Paul Ebert knows how to land the big ones. Muhammad, who with teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo methodically picked off people over three weeks in...

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Jobless: 10 Percent Is Tougher Than It Used To Be

Americans Have More Debt, Less Savings JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer POSTED: 12:22 pm EST November 7, 2009 UPDATED: 12:31 pm EST November 7, 2009 WASHINGTON -- It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the...

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More Tri-Citians seek holiday jobs

Restaurant worker Alma Montes wants to find a second job during the holiday season. Montes, of Kennewick, who applied for a customer service position Friday at JCPenney at Columbia Center mall, said her weekly work hours have...

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Aggie businesses honored [The Eagle, Bryan, Texas]

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 7--Mike McAleer had been working as director of software development for a computer services company in Dallas when he and everyone else were told to pack up one Friday afternoon in 2000....

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