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Tuesday May 14 | The Baltimore Sun

Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced

As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain.

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Obama Advisor: 'The Law Is Irrelevant' On IRS Fiasco

MISSPEAKS Remark draws criticism from House conservative leader Steve Scalise

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Do You Know the Constitution Better Than Most Politicians?

Lawmakers get fewer than half of these questions right, on average. Can you do better?

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

MLive.com

Three nabbed for credit card fraud at Meijer in Plainfield Township

Three Detroit area men are in custody for credit card fraud and police say they were targeting local Meijer stores.

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Sun Mar 17, 2013

mlive.com

Police: Couple steals thousands of gallons of gas, sells it for drugs, cash

Parking their "broken down" van over gas stations' underground storage tanks, Jamie Hardie and Rebecca Jo Ryan stole 950 gallons of gas from one West Michigan business and pulled the same stunt at multiple other lcoations, police say.

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