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Trump to Miss California Carrie Prejean: You're Fired!
LOS ANGELES -- Miss California Carrie Prejean has been stripped of her crown.
Donald Trump, who runs the competition, says the decision was based, not on Prejean's political views, but because she violated her contract.
"This was a decision based solely...Tags: Contracts, Minority Groups, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Education
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Rawlings-Blake donates Orioles skybox tickets to 27 nonprofits, schools
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has donated use of her office's skybox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to 27 nonprofit or charitable organizations this year, including her daughter's school, according to a list provided by the mayor's office. The Parent...
Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Health, Elections, Kennedy Krieger Institute
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Jazzman Perez reaches out to the world
In the brief history of jazz, several extravagantly gifted musicians have transcended their roles as virtuoso performers to become bona fide cultural ambassadors for this country and its greatest musical export — jazz. Louis Armstrong and Dizzy...
Tags: Memorial Day, Human Interest, Global Expansion, Green Mill (club), Music Industry
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Prosecutors: Driver had pot in system when Skokie boy hit, killed
Investigators say a woman with a drug possession conviction was smoking pot the day the vehicle she was driving struck an 8-year-old boy in Skokie, pushing the bike he was riding on a sidewalk across the street and into a parked car. Carter Vo, a second-...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Marijuana Use, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Explore More Day offers students experimental lessons
TribLocal - Arlington Heights » NewsErin Losselyoung, 7, could barely contain her excitement as she prepared to tie-dye a white pillow case at Juliette Low Elementary last week. The first-grade …... -
MOMS gather for friendship
Before kids, Sylvia Gurganus was an editor for the College of William and Mary's alumni magazine. Now she is raising her two preschool boys, does freelance editing and is president of the Moms Offering Moms Support (MOMS) Club of Newport News-C, Yorktown-...
Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Facebook, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Student-created mural unveiled at South Elementary
TribLocal - Des Plaines » NewsIt takes creative thinking and critical skills to design a mural, and South Elementary students learned just that this spring as they set out to …... -
Study: Connecticut Residents Among Those With Highest Potential To Improve Economic Status
WASHINGTON — People living in a group of mostly Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. states are more likely than the average American to improve their economic status. But southerners are largely falling behind, according to a study released... -
Student loan blues
Brenda Small didn't think twice about taking out student loans to pay for nursing school in the late 1980s. She figured she could easily pay off the $20,000 bill — until an injury a few years later left her permanently unable to work.
Her dreams of...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Elections, Financial Aid, Back to School, Federal Reserve
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Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid that killed Osama bin Laden
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. But the terrorist network dreams still of payback,...
Tags: Pakistan, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Critics seek more oversight of renovations at school district headquarters
Outraged education, community and political leaders have called for increased oversight of spending in the Baltimore City school system, amid revelations that about $500,000 was spent to upgrade offices at the district headquarters while city and state...Tags: Technology, Andres Alonso, Politics, Finance, American Federation of Teachers
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NATO summit's economic impact questioned
The Chicago host committee for the NATO summit said Monday that the event would be a bigger economic boon than some of the city's best-known trade shows, but the rosy projections include what the government and corporations are spending to put it on....
Tags: Companies and Corporations, McCormick Place, Tourism and Leisure, Business Enterprises, NATO
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