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Appalachian State Gunman
2008-03-04 01:43:00
Appalachian State University locked down all campus buildings for more than an hour Monday as authorities searched for a man who was seen carrying a gun nearby. Officials lifted the lockdown shortly after 6:30 p.m., after no further sightings of the suspect were reported. “Both Appalachian State police and Boone police have been consulting, and they think ...
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Giants Officially Sign Sammy Knight
2008-03-04 01:31:00
The Giants have officially signed S Sammy Knight . According to someone familiar with the terms of the deal, it’s a three-year, $5.15-million contract with a $1.25-million signing bonus. Not a bad deal for both sides after Knight signed a one-year, $820k deal with Jacksonville last year. The person familiar with the deal also said Knight has ...
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Superbowl Ads Rise In Cost
2008-01-29 20:11:00
The price for a 30-second commercial spot on television for the U.S Superbowl has risen to US$2.7 million. The Super Bowl this year will draw new advertisers, including Planters packaged nut company, Kraft Foods, Cars.com, an online auto classified advertising company, McClatchy, Tribune, Washington Post and Belo Corp. The advertisers expect to reach more than 90 million ...
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Florida Primaries Voting Today January 29 2008
2008-01-29 19:02:00
It’s Election Day in Florida .  On the ballot are Presidential Candidates for both parties and a Property Tax Amendment aimed at helping homeowners. Polls close at 7 p.m. tonight. Lines at many polling places were short when Florida’s presidential primary voting began Tuesday, but the number of voters was expected to be among the highest in recent ...
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RealtyTrac - Foreclosure Rates High for 2007
2008-01-29 18:53:00
More Than 2.2 Million Foreclosure Filings on Nearly 1.3 Million Properties Reported In USA During 2007. RealtyTrac® (realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released year-end data from its 2007 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 2,203,295 foreclosure filings ? default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions ? were reported ...
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Transcript State of the Union Address 2008
2008-01-29 04:35:00
Here is the transcript for the 2008 State of the Union Address as it is being presented in Congress assembled. This is President Bush’s final State of the Union Address. As Prepared for Delivery Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Seven years have passed since I first stood before you at ...

State of the Union 2008
2008-01-28 21:05:00
President Bush’s State of the Union address is scheduled for Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9pm (Eastern). It should be broadcast on all major ...
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2008 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Tonight
2008-01-28 01:30:00
LOS ANGELES — Thanks to a waiver from the writers union, Sunday night’s SAG awards show should be packed with stars. The ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium could be one of the only star- studded awards events Hollywood will host this year, thanks to the lingering Writers Guild of America strike that has ...
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Drunken Sean Young Ruins Julian Schnabel Moment At DGA Awards
2008-01-28 00:10:00
  Actress Sean Young apparently had too much to drink, and not enough attention paid to her during the DGA awards Saturday night. USA Today and Perez Hilton both report that the inebriated actress made a spectacle of herself, embarrassing the people at her table. During the DGA Awards , where the five nominated feature film directors made a speech before the ...
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Famous Actor Heath Ledger Dies At Age 28
2008-01-23 04:30:00
NEW YORK (CNN) — Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday of a possible drug overdose in a Lower Manhattan apartment, the New York Police Department said. The Academy Award-nominated actor was 28. Ledger was found naked and unresponsive, facedown on the floor at the foot of his bed by a housekeeper trying to wake him for ...
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Fed Cuts Interest Rate
2008-01-22 19:03:00
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Federal Reserve, confronted with a global stock sell-off fanned by increased fears of a recession, cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, the biggest one-day move by the central bank in recent memory. The Fed said it was cutting the federal funds rate, the interest that ...
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Why Current Mortgage Rates Aren?t Falling
2008-01-22 18:59:00
The Federal Reserve made a surprise 0.750% rate cut this morning. Mort gage rates are falling in response, but not because of what the Fed did as much as what the Fed implied by doing it. The chart above dated from last week and illustrates what traders thought the Fed would do to the Fed Funds Rate at ...
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2008 Oscar Nominations
2008-01-22 16:18:00
Here are the 80th Academy Awards nominations. View the Oscar Academy Awards live on February 24th at 8 EST / 5 PST on ABC. Best motion picture ?Atonement? (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers ?Juno? (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, ...
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Rotten Neighbor
2008-01-22 16:03:00
(CBS) In today’s weakened housing market, even the smallest of factors can have an impact on your home’s future worth and your own enjoyment living there, not the least of which, your neighbors. The Early Show national correspondent Jeff Glor reports on one man’s hi-tech way of dealing with a rotten neighbor problem. For many folks location is ...
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William Flynn Seeks Sentence Reduction
2008-01-22 01:53:00
  Pamela Smart is serving life in prison for getting teen lover to kill her husband in 1990. WARREN, Maine?William Flynn has a wife and teenage stepdaughter, is a member of the Jaycees and likes to play softball. He sounds like a good suburban neighbor. But Flynn’s home is a cell at the Maine State Prison, where he’s ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebrated - I Have A Dream
2008-01-21 22:10:00
Today honors the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader whose moral leadership and soaring oratory led the United States toward the legal abolition of segregation and racial discrimination. He was assassinated in April 1968, but his words live on. Perhaps best known is his “I Have a Dream ” speech, delivered ...
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Ron Pratte Pays $5.5 Million For Shelby Cobra
2008-01-20 07:13:00
  SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - An 800-horsepower Shelby Cobra , once the personal car of the racing veteran who developed the iconic vehicle, has sold for $5.5 million at auction, a record for an American car. The sale of the 1966 Shelby Cobra “Super Snake” brought a packed house to its feet Saturday at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction ...
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David Dave Ressler Wins Auction On 2009 Corvette ZR1
2008-01-20 06:55:00
  The first 2009 Corvette ZR1 just sold here on big money day at the big BJ auction for $1,000,000 with a little help from GM’s best bud, Jay Leno to Dave Ressler. Although the money’s all going to the United Way, we’re wondering what this’ll mean for the mark-up on the sticker price we’ll see ...
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Popular Actor Allan Melvin Dies at 84
2008-01-19 21:03:00
llan Melvin , a popular character actor who played Cpl. Henshaw on the classic 1950s sitcom “The Phil Silvers Show” and later portrayed Archie Bunker’s neighbor and friend Barney on “All in the Family,” has died. He was 84. Melvin, who was in the original Broadway cast of “Stalag 17″ in the early 1950s, died of cancer ...
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