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- Report: Ford to retool U.S. plants
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 11:50 PM -0700
Car maker Ford Motor Co is drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small, fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported.[more]
- NYC chain restaurants posting calories on menus
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 11:13 PM -0700
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new rule requiring New York chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus took effect on Friday, marking a first for a U.S. city.
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- Wal-Mart's fashion show previews back-to-school
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 11:03 PM -0700
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc presented a colorful, casual line of youthful looks for kids and teens on Saturday at a fashion show that previewed the mass-market chain's new...[more]
- Felons use gun ruling to challenge bans
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 10:30 PM -0700
Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns. But he's fighting back using last month's Supreme Court ruling on guns.[more]
- Woman's corpse may be link to mystery baby
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 09:50 PM -0700
The body of a woman -- found at the apartment of a Pennsylvania woman who arrived at a hospital with a newborn infant earlier this week -- had been partially eviscerated and her uterus had been cut...[more]
- Cristobal churns off North Carolina coast
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 09:32 PM -0700
Tropical Storm Cristobal was forecast to move "parallel and very close" to the North Carolina coast Sunday morning, but the storm is not expected to make landfall along the eastern U.S. shores.
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- Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 09:00 PM -0700
CHICAGO -- In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate,...[more]
- Man Decides Not to Jump Off Ledge, Then Falls
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 09:00 PM -0700
A patient at George Washington University Hospital fell from a fifth-story ledge overlooking New Hampshire Avenue in Northwest Washington yesterday afternoon after threatening to jump for several...[more]
- Green Becomes Official Color of Baseball
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 09:00 PM -0700
NEW YORK -- When baseball's legendary greats came rolling up Sixth Avenue this month for the annual Hall of Fame parade, the familiar red carpet was distinctly green.
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- Storm Cristobal forms off U.S., Bertha weakens
Category: US News
Publish Date: 07-19-2008 08:22 PM -0700
MIAMI (Reuters) - The third tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, formed off the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, with gale-force winds and heavy rains expected to lash the...[more]
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