Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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New Obama Administration Task Force Will Go After Financial Fraud Financial fraud will be under the scrutiny of a new Obama administration task force

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Heads Of Banks Hit Hard By 9-11 React To Trial The heads of two investment banks that suffered heavy employee deaths in the September 11th attacks ...

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Space Shuttle Crew To Inspect Thermal Tiles Following their successful launch yesterday, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis will spend most of ...

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Thousands More U.S. Foreign Account Holders Come Forward The Justice Department and the IRS say nearly 15-thousand American taxpayers have disclosed holding ...

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Central Illinois School Closed After Threat Students in the small town of Girard in central Illinois will have another day off from school as ...

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Crane Project Cites Across Illinois After more than a week in the Rockford area, the whooping cranes migrating south with an ultralight ...

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Grad Students, Teaching Assistants Strike At U of I Classes at the University of Illinois started on schedule, even though there may have been a new ...

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Long-Lost Agatha Christie Story Due Out Today Fictional detective Hercule Poirot is on the case again in a long-lost story being published today.

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Female Soldier Refuses Deployment Because Of Missing Child Care An Army cook/single mother has refused deployment to Afghanistan claiming she has no one to care ...

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Oxford Names New Word Of Year The logophiles who brought you the New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen a brand new Word of ...

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L.A. Police Arrest Oldest "Slap Tagger" Vandal Authorities in Los Angeles have arrested a man they're calling the oldest "slap ...

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Iran Boosts Gasoline Production To Defy West Iran thumbed its nose at the West today by upping gasoline production 30-percent to prove it could ...

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Dennis Rodman Detained In Germany Over Bar Tab Former NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman was briefly detained in Germany yesterday after he allegedly ...

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Body Found, Girl's Mother Faces 40 Years The mother of a missing North Carolina girl appeared in court Monday, as searchers found what ...

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Paper: Hasan Requested Patients Be Tried For War Crimes Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, requested that some ...

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Fraternity Suspended From Drake University Over Alleged Hazing A Drake University fraternity is being suspended over an alleged hazing incident

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CNN Showed Dobbs The Door Longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs was given eight-million dollars by the network to leave

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Time Warner To Spin Off AOL In December The disastrous marriage of Time Warner and America On Line is nearing an end

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Blagojevich's Brother Seeks Separate Trial Indicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich could be going to trial all by himself next year

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Obama: China Agrees To Help Pressure Iran On Nukes President Obama has gotten China on board in his campaign to strengthen scrutiny of Iran's ...