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  • Click for Full Story Senate health bottom line: $849 billion overhaul

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The political stakes enormous, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched long-awaited health care legislation Wednesday estimated to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans at a cost of $849 billion.

     
  • Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

    FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday.

     
  • Click for Full Story Floods devastate UK Lake District; much of Ireland

    COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) — Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.

     
  • Click for Full Story Afghan police are weak link in security force

    KABUL (AP) — Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

     
  • Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC

    ATLANTA (AP) — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.

     
  • Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

    ROME (AP) — Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

     
  • Click for Full Story Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

    ROME (AP) — A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.

     
  • Click for Full Story Winfrey: Prayer, careful thought influenced exit

    CHICAGO (AP) — Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.

     
  • Mich. police nab wrong-way driver twice in 3 days

    KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities in western Michigan arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.m. Friday after several people called 911 when they passed the unidentified driver traveling south on northbound U.S. 131.

     
  • Click for Full Story Jayson Williams plea hearing delayed indefinitely

    NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver.

     
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