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AvalonBay promotes three senior vice presidents
AvalonBay Communities has promoted three senior vice presidents to executive vice president postitions. Sean Breslin, who joined the company in 2002, has been promoted to executive vice president of redevelopment ...
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CSC wins visa contract with Department of State
Falls Church-based SCS is one of two companies to receive a contract to support the Department of State’s visa services. Under the contract, which was awarded by the Department of ...
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World's shortest man, He Pingping, dies in Italy
The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday.
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Housing construction drops 5.9 pct in February
Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the U.S. Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from ...
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Fed weighs how and when to signal higher rates
Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered.
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GOP assails Dems on approach to health bill
Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health ...
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Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI
The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
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Judge: Winfrey must defend ex-headmistress's suit
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, ...
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Mexican tour bus overturns in Texas, killing 2
A Mexican tour bus carrying about 35 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring an unknown number of others, an official ...
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MPAA boss Glickman says goodbye to Hollywood
Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie - and fighting pirates.
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Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern Calif.
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.
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Ark. woman whose 3 kids drowned pleads guilty
A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court ...
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Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the ...
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Ark. woman whose 3 kids drowned pleads guilty
A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court ...
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$70M in prescription drugs stolen in Conn. heist
Thieves scaled a wall at a pharmaceutical warehouse over the weekend, cut a hole in the roof and rappelled inside to steal about $70 million in antidepressants and other prescription ...
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Plucky whooping crane gives wildlife experts hope
After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family's marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick's neck, death seemed certain.
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Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp
New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first ...
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ESPN reporter's stalker gets 2½ years in prison
An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in prison after giving a tearful apology that was harshly ...
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Detroit city workers being warned to go scentsless
Change is in the air for Detroit city workers.
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Metro Richmond Community News & Blogs
Hills and Heights: Blog following Forest Hill/Semmes corridor, including such neighborhoods as Westover Hills, Forest Hill, Woodland Heights, Forest View Heights and Stratford Hills. Church Hill People's
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McDougle reviews key legislative accomplishments
Senator receives significant feedback from constituents
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation's open records law to withhold federal records even as the ...
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Petraeus: 'Time has come' to rethink gay policy
The four-star Army general who is managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says "the time has come" for the military to rethink its policy toward gays.
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Petraeus warns of tough year ahead on Afghanistan
The man who oversees U.S. forces in both the Iraq and Afghan wars says the fighting in Afghanistan will "likely get harder before it gets easier" and predicts 2010 will ...
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Northeast cleaning up from wind-whipped rainstorm
A three-day rainstorm that flooded basements and roadways and ripped trees out of the soaking wet ground was among the most devastating ever to the electrical grid in some parts ...
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Well, if Gieseppe was an owner it was brief and ... -
Why Richmond, Why?!?: More Potholes
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