Reid says Burris might ultimately get Senate seat
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 AP - Changing course, Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting with Senate appointee Roland Burris on Wednesday and set forth the legal steps under which they're willing to welcome him into the Senate in President-elect Barack Obama's vacated spot.
Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says
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AP - Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday. Study: Networking hinders black women execs
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AP - Black women face special challenges in their efforts to reach the top levels of corporate America, according to a new study. Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent
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AP - Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. Mourners gather to say farewell to Griffin Bell
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AP - Friends and family have gathered in south Georgia for the funeral of former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell. |
Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate
Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report. 'Sno-maggedon' has Spokane on edge
 More than 6 feet of snow in the past three weeks has left Spokane residents frustrated. Tempers are so frayed that a man was arrested for shooting at a snow plow operator.
Lovesick teen's boyfriend jailed over murders
A 20-year-old man who helped kill a lovesick girl's family because the two were forbidden to date has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Obama hails 'extraordinary gathering'
 President-elect Barack Obama has returned to the White House for a private sit-down with President George W. Bush, less than two weeks before their official transfer of power.
Homicide ruling 35 years after shooting
A man shot in the back 35 years ago has died of complications from the shooting and his death has been ruled a homicide — but prosecutors fear the trail for the suspect has long ago gone cold. |