NEW YORK – Retailers who saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed stepped up online promotions on the day known as “Cyber Monday” to try to get consumers tired of the crowds at stores to keep shopping. But after weeks of already heavy discounting both at regular …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Indian aircraft violated Pakistan’s airspace Saturday but were chased back over the border by Pakistani fighter jets, an Air Force spokesman here said. The alleged incident comes amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals over last month’s deadly attack in Mumbai. India has said the attack, which …
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Lee Iacocca, the man who led Chrysler through a government bailout in the late 1970s, says the CEOs of Detroit’s automakers should not be forced to quit as a condition of getting government loans. Iacocca, Chrysler’s retired chairman and chief executive, said in a statement Tuesday that now is not …
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SANTA ANA, Calif. – U.S. immigration authorities said Monday they arrested more than 1,150 people in California in a three-week sweep, the state’s largest of its type since 2003. The sweep targeted immigration violators including those who have ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported. …
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PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. – An emergency dispatcher in suburban Philadelphia says a hot-air balloon has crashed and burst into flames, killing one person and injuring the six others who were on board. The Chester County Emergency Services dispatcher says the balloon crashed at 6:40 p.m. Sunday in Phoenixville, 22 miles northwest …
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LOS ANGELES – A stolen photo of Jamie Lynn Spears breast feeding her baby girl has sparked a federal pornography investigation, TMZ reports. Federal and local authorities are looking for someone peddling 12 photos of Jamie Lynn, her older sister Britney Spears, her infant daughter Maddie and the baby’s father …
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WASHINGTON – A U.S. judge has sentenced a disgraced U.S. lobbyist to four years in prison. The judge could have sentenced Jack Abramoff to 11 years, but he gave him credit for helping the FBI investigate an influence-peddling scandal. With Abramoff’s help, the Justice Department has won corruption convictions against …
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler sued unknown bloggers on Wednesday saying they impersonated him on the Web, writing about the death of his mother and other “intimate details” from his life, Reuters reported. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, Tyler, 60, said he didn’t know the real names of those …
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ERIE, Pa. – An Erie man admitted Wednesday that he helped plan a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that ended with the death of a pizza deliveryman with a collar-bomb strapped to his neck. Kenneth Barnes pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to rob a bank and to aiding and abetting. He …
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GALVESTON, TEXAS – The National Hurricane Center says Edouard has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves inland across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Coastal tropical storm warnings were canceled after Edouard made landfall Tuesday morning east of Galveston. Click for photos The storm kicked up heavy surf …
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