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  • Syrian activists Shelling near Lebanon kills 16

    A Syrian supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, holds a placard with his picture and the national flag as he participates in a protest outside the US Embassy in central London, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...

  • IFD puts out 2 house fires early Sunday morning

    INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Firefighters worked two house fires just after midnight Sunday morning. Crews were dispatched to 2945 N. Chester Ave. at 12:07am. The homeowners noticed smoke in the kitchen area and left the house to call 911. When firefighters arrived, smoke was showing. Crews quickly extinguished that fire that possibly started in the kitchen area. There were no injuries ...

  • $590M-plus Powerball 1 winning ticket sold in Florida

    DES MOINES, Iowa – It’s all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell. She told The ...

  • Pacers Win First Round Take Detour into History

    Talk about a transition game. The Pacers wrapped up their First Round playoff series with Atlanta on Friday, barely escaping a haunted house, but still didn't know where they would be sleeping that night as they hit the locker room door. The Knicks were similarly engaged in sweating out the final minutes of their closeout game in Boston, and it wasn't until several of the Pacers had ...

  • With NRA it can be one strike and youre out

    As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association with an “A+” rating for her voting record in the Tennessee House of Representatives, Debra Maggart never imagined that her political career would end this way.Maggart, who chaired the Republican caucus, killed an NRA-backed bill that would have permitted Tennesseans to keep firearms in their parked vehicles wherever they went – work, ...


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National Treasure

National Treasure

The fact that National Treasure, a passably enjoyable adventure romp, becomes steadily more ludicrous as it goes on is actually part of its ill-gotten pleasure, because if you can get through the first couple of unbelievable plot twists and puzzle decipherings, then every ... ...

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  • Michigan town feels duped

    LEXINGTON, Mich. – Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys, said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape.“It was a little box, a very ornate box, to hold a prayer. She needed God to look over her,” Connell said, recalling the 2008 lunch ...

  • Big groups avoid scrutiny

    Demonstrators supporting Americans for Prosperity rally to block Occupy Wall Street protesters last year. Critics say the IRS did not target big groups like Americans for ...

  • Turtles draw tourists to Trinidad

    Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world’s leading tourist destination for people to see ...

  • Level of outrage surprises IRS staff

    CINCINNATI – The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service – which had just about the worst week an agency can have.People in determinations unit have been accused of ...

  • Assad US must not interfere

    BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country’s politics, raising doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the civil war.Assad’s comments to the Argentine newspaper Clarin were the first about his political ...

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