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Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest
Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was ...
Winning numbers drawn in 'Mega Millions' game
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 11-15-35-43-49, Mega Ball: 41 (eleven, fifteen, thirty-five, forty-three, forty-nine; Mega Ball: forty-one) Estimated jackpot: $190 million
Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)
Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands. Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of "bionic" ...
4 soldiers, 3 from Fort Bliss, die in Afghanistan
Military officials say three Fort Bliss soldiers and one from Fort Stewart in Georgia were killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device. Fort Bliss officials said Friday that William Joseph Gilbert and Mitchell Kirk Daehling, both 24-year-old specialists from Fort Bliss, and 29-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey C. Baker, ...
Sugarland's Nettles signs up Rubin, goes solo
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is releasing a solo album. Nettles says Friday in a news release that she is working with Rick Rubin and will release the album in the fall. Rumors that Nettles would release a solo album have been prevalent for a while. Grammy Award-winning Sugarland includes Kristian Bush ...
Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education
First lady Michelle Obama has spoken passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address to more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University. The first lady spoke Friday about the university's founding in 1865 to train black teachers and the "hunger" its first students ...
Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget
Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to an Associated Press review of public tax filings by 93 such activist groups. A few groups built ...
Georgia governor engaged in Bible dispute
When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented. An atheist, Buckner believes that no religious literature should be provided in government-owned lodging, and he presented ...
Tablets in the classroom push learning, teaching
Time is up for the 13 students in Stephanee Stephens' 8th grade Spanish class. For the last few minutes they've been conjugating verbs, each typing away on a small tablet when a message pops up on the screen: "Eyes on the Teacher." Stephens, with tablet in hand, asks for "voluntarios ...
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