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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout
NEW YORK - This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish vacation hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are headed to places like nearby campgrounds. The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip 'n slides....
Colorado Springs sales tax collections surge in April
Sales tax collections in Colorado Springs surged again in April, the sixth time in the past eight months that collections have risen more than 8 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to a report Thursday from the city's Finance Department. Collections last month, based on sales...
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Protesters across globe rally against Monsanto
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizers said. Organizers said "March Against Monsanto" protests were held in 52 countries and 436 cities, including Los Angeles where demonstrators waved signs that read...
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Rebuilding rules as rain soaks Jersey shore
MANASQUAN, N.J. (AP) — Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues — under covered porches — as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at the Jersey shore since Superstorm Sandy roared through. Seven months after the devastating storm pummeled large swaths of the shore, the tourists made their way back, though many substituted...
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Political landscape changes with improving economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. Amid a series of recent positive economic...
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Automaker Tesla takes fight to North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Electric car manufacturer Tesla wants a compromise that will allow it to stay in business in North Carolina. The California automaker is sitting down with the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association ahead of state House meetings on a bill that effectively prevents direct online sales to consumers. The Senate passed...
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Protesters march against Monsanto in 250 cities
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Protests against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries. "March Against Monsanto" organizers say they're calling attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the companies that produce it. Protests are planned in more than 250 cities Saturday....
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Ohio kidnap case hero not endorsing free burgers
CLEVELAND (AP) — The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he's not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it. "I never told these people they could use my name for this," Charles Ramsey said in...
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News Corp. OKs poison pill, buyback before split
LOS ANGELES (AP) — News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is complete. The New York-based media...
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FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday the problems involve seven patients who received steroid injections from Main Street...
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Report: Yahoo, pay-TV operators among Hulu bidders
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The person wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity, after several news outlets reported on the...
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Trustee opposes $20M payout to American Air CEO
The Justice Department is objecting to a proposed $20 million severance payment for American Airlines CEO Tom Horton, saying it's bigger than allowed by bankruptcy law. Horton became CEO when American filed for Chapter 11 protection in November 2011. The proposed merger of US Airways Group Inc. and American calls for Horton to lose that job...
