NEW YORK – Cingular Wireless plans to team-up with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc (XMSR) and Web music subscription services Napster Inc., and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), to let its customers play songs on their cell phones, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. [Cingular Wireless confirmed the four-way deal …
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for doing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison. Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also given nine months under house arrest and a year on probation Tuesday. Livelsberger pleaded guilty on …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – President Bush paid tribute to new symbols of capitalism in this struggling communist country Monday and offered encouragement for Vietnam’s battle against bird flu and other public health challenges. The president was quickly touring this city, once known as Saigon, before flying to Indonesia, the world’s most …
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HANOI, Vietnam – Much of Vietnam’s capital remained under water Sunday as the death toll from the city’s worst flooding in two decades climbed to 17, disaster officials and state media reported. Floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least 44 people across northern and central Vietnam in the …
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WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of the Nov. 16, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: And hello again from Fox News in Washington. The Senate returns for a lame duck session tomorrow with a proposed bailout for the …
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SAN DIEGO – A San Diego jury convicted a man of murder for killing a professional surfer during a scuffle. Seth Cravens was convicted Tuesday and could face life in prison when he is sentenced in January. The 22-year-old Cravens said he acted in self-defense when he punched Emery Kauanui …
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A second victim of a weekend church shooting died Monday, leaving one survivor who was in extremely critical condition, authorities said. The estranged wife of the alleged gunman, who remained at large, also died in the attack. Dennis John Mallosseril, 25, a bystander in the shootings, died of head wounds …
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CAIRO, Egypt – OPEC held off on announcing new oil output cuts on Saturday, but its alarm over falling demand and a slumping economy potentially laid the groundwork for a big reduction when it meets again in a matter of weeks. Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s oil minister and the group’s president, …
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Hundreds of teenage boys were arrested in Cairo Wednesday for flirting, as Egyptian police conducted a day-long crackdown on sexual harassment, Agence-France Presse reported Thursday. “We have arrested a large number of boys who were flirting with girls,” Cairo Police Director Faruq Lashin told AFP. About 400 teens, between the …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A federal grand jury indicted a Sacramento man Thursday on 13 charges related to a series of anthrax scares across the country that turned out to be hoaxes. The indictment accuses Marc Keyser, 66, of mailing threatening packages to several media outlets, businesses and Rep. George Radanovich, …
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