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In a new Miami, praise for Castro opens old wounds

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
MIAMI (AP) -- Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen's comments professing admiration for Fidel Castro caused a bigger uproar than if the Miami baseball team had spent the entire season in last place....
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In a new Miami, praise for Castro opens old wounds

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
MIAMI (AP) -- Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen's comments professing admiration for Fidel Castro caused a bigger uproar than if the Miami baseball team had spent the entire season in last place....
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Manson likely a no show for his parole hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- Debra Tate hopes that Wednesday is the last time she has to walk into a prison holding Charles Manson and argue in front of a parole board panel that he should not be freed....
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Manson likely a no show for his parole hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- Debra Tate hopes that Wednesday is the last time she has to walk into a prison holding Charles Manson and argue in front of a parole board panel that he should not be freed....
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Lucas empire strikes back in Calif. studio battle

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- George Lucas' empire is striking back in its long-running battle to build a palatial film studio in the pastoral hills north of San Francisco....
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Lucas empire strikes back in Calif. studio battle

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- George Lucas' empire is striking back in its long-running battle to build a palatial film studio in the pastoral hills north of San Francisco....
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Arkansas judge to decide penalty in J&J trial

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A judge will decide how much a Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary must pay the state of Arkansas, after a jury found the company downplayed and hid risks associated with an antipsychotics drug....
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Arkansas judge to decide penalty in J&J trial

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A judge will decide how much a Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary must pay the state of Arkansas, after a jury found the company downplayed and hid risks associated with an antipsychotics drug....
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First lady marks 1-year point for military effort

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama has been everywhere from a West Point mess hall to a NASCAR speedway in the past year to drum up support for military families, and now she's capping the yearlong effort with a two-day, four-state tour to take stock of what's been done....
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Today in History

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
Today is Wednesday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2012. There are 264 days left in the year....
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Loyal Instagram users fret about Facebook's reach

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
NEW YORK (AP) -- Poor Instagram users....
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Mich. teacher: I was fired over Trayvon fundraiser

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
DETROIT (AP) -- A teacher fired from a Michigan middle school after encouraging students to raise money for the family of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin said Tuesday she is confused by the dismissal and wants the school's administration to explain....
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Mich. teacher: I was fired over Trayvon fundraiser

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
DETROIT (AP) -- A teacher fired from a Michigan middle school after encouraging students to raise money for the family of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin said Tuesday she is confused by the dismissal and wants the school's administration to explain....
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Lucasfilm abandons studio plan at NorCal site

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- George Lucas' film production company on Tuesday abandoned plans to build a sprawling studio in a rustic valley north of San Francisco, saying it has no desire to be seen as "an evil empire."...
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Wisconsin governor kicks off in-person campaigning

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
DANE, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's divisive governor officially hit the campaign trail for the first time Tuesday, kicking off a statewide tour by speaking at a farm in front of a tractor, as Democrats filed signatures needed to take him on in a recall election....
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Brother: Minn. day care operator, parents killed

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) -- Above all, DeLois Brown was a caretaker. The grandmother ran an in-home day care, women at her church considered her their "second mom," and just last week she moved her aging parents from the St. Louis area to her Minnesota home so she could care for them....
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Zimmerman cuts off contact with lawyers

Attorneys for George Zimmerman announced Tuesday that their client has cut off contact with them, forcing them to withdraw as his legal counsel in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager in Florida.

Mr. Zimmerman, who has claimed self-defense in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has not returned their ...

Zimmerman's lawyers withdraw from shooting case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The Trayvon Martin case took a bizarre turn Tuesday when George Zimmerman's attorneys quit, complaining that they have lost all contact with him and that he called the prosecutor and talked to a TV host after they told him not to speak to anyone....
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Zimmerman's lawyers withdraw from shooting case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The Trayvon Martin case took a bizarre turn Tuesday when George Zimmerman's attorneys quit, complaining that they have lost all contact with him and that he called the prosecutor and talked to a TV host after they told him not to speak to anyone....
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Authorities defend Colo. fire warning attempts

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 07:34
DENVER (AP) -- Firefighters are defending their attempts to warn residents about a fast-moving Colorado wildfire in response to questions raised by the family of one of three people killed by the blaze....
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