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WASHINTON, DC – The President’s recently announced High-Speed Rail Project is now the target of ill-concieved Republican scrutiny.

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Tim Duncan? Sigh.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — While reports of infidelity swirling around the divorce of San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria have made that couple’s split a mainstay on the front pages of tabloids for weeks, another Spurs star recently ended his marriage in far less headline-grabbing fashion.

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Is the sketch at right journeyman actor Steve Buscemi or the suspect in a string of jogger gropings at Thompson Park? In SCPD composite artist Carl Renfrow's mind, it's both.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Amid growing concern that the composite sketches released by the Santa Cruz Police Department consistently bear little or no resemblance to the actual suspects apprehended, Carl Renfrow, the SCPD’s composite artist, admitted yesterday that he never finished art school and that pencil sketches “are like my third- or fourth-best medium.”

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AUSTIN, Tex. — In a move that most industry experts have dismissed as a blatant and ill-conceived attempt to piggyback on the success of humor Web site TextsFromLastNight.com, Macrohard, a fledgling startup company, is funding a high-profile rollout of two new sites, SMSMessagesSentDuringThePast24Hours.com and TweetsPostedSinceThisTimeYesterday-ish.com.

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Reactions range from incredulous to outraged after a 25-year-old Iowa man ran in a long-distance road race without flaunting it to family and friends.

Greg Rogers (6544) supposedly ran in a half marathon on Saturday. But he didn't even post this pic on Facebook, so we're waayy skeptical.

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Palmade and pelicans shouldn't mix, environmentalists allege.

Greenpeace, PETA, The Audobon Society and an army of other animal rights and environmental groups are expressing outrage over a new commercial for Axe hair products that attempts to capitalize on the Gulf Coast oil spill and depicts the abuse of an endangered bird.

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No old-timey carriage horse in the neighborhood should be considered safe, witnesses warn.

OMAHA, Neb. — Sam Clemens, the dude who earlier this month survived a life-threatening hangover, this afternoon smoked “a shit ton of bud” while watching the final few episodes of season three of Lost and is now “so starving” that he could “eat a horse.

“Seriously.”

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Miami: Awash in controversy.

MIAMI, Okla. — A local watering hole’s most recent idea for an edgy, religious-themed party has turned this sleepy Midwestern town into a powder keg of Christian controversy. Read the rest of this entry »

Def Jam hopes holiday-based song releases will help R & B artist Jeremih continue to top charts.

Jeremih: Birthday Sexsessful

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SOUTH DAKOTA- In a stunning announcement made today, but likely written weeks ago, Bristol Daily News Editor Steve Frederick admitted that most allegedly “breaking” news was often 20-30 days old. The Daily, a hardcopy paper with a Read the rest of this entry »