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- Florida fire consumes 3,500-year-old tree
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Arson is ruled out in the blaze that destroyed the cypress, one of the world's oldest.— One of the world's oldest cypress trees was destroyed in a mysterious fire Monday.
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- House to take largely symbolic vote on debt ceiling
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The vote, one in a series built into last summer's congressional deal, is expected to die in the Senate. President Obama will then have enough borrowing authority to pay the nation's bills through...[more]
- Obamas mark King's birthday with volunteer work
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The first family builds bookshelves at a school library, as the president evokes the slain civil rights leader's words about public service.— President Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s...[more]
- Recall vote on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appears imminent
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
If petition signatures seeking the recall vote are valid, the election is expected to be a fact-twisting bout between the two sides and a preliminary peek into the November general election....[more]
- Shoe retailer Zappos.com is victim of cyber attack
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The popular online store's computers are hit by a hacker who gained access to customer information. The company says only partial credit card numbers were exposed.Zappos.com, the popular shoe...[more]
- Legal battle spins around the Globes
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which created and owns the Globes, in a lawsuit has accused the award show's TV producer, Dick Clark Productions, of violating their partnership by signing a...[more]
- Hollywood's two main actors unions reach tentative deal to merge
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The consolidation of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists would end a decades-long rivalry between the two groups to organize actors. After a marathon...[more]
- BMW recalling 89,000 Mini brand cars over faulty water pumps
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Nearly 89,000 Mini brand cars, including the Mini Cooper line of vehicles, are being recalled in the U.S. because of faulty water pumps that can malfunction and potentially cause engine compartment...[more]
- Great wall of Chinese bureaucracy derails Southland investor
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Winston Chung finds a rocky road to fortune as deals unravel for the Balboa Bay Club and Resort, a mansion once owned by Nicolas Cage and a plan to boost production at a Riverside RV company....[more]
- AT&T jacks up 'measured' phone service rate because it can
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The state Public Utilities Commission no longer regulates basic rates, so AT&T doesn't have to justify the 25% increase to $15.37 a month.With bills for pretty much everything steadily rising, some...[more]
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