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3 hrs ago | Free Press

General Motors expects a plan for its European operations by mid December

General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, but did not specify the amount of cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel

8 hrs ago | Boston.com

Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency

In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 picture, the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Science / Technology, NASA

12 hrs ago | WLNE

Mass. Unemployment Rate Drops from 9.3% to 8.9%

November 19, 2009 --- The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported today that the unemployment rate in Massachusetts dropped from 9.3 percent in September to 8.9 percent in October, the first monthly rate decline since June of 2007.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

DND unable to provide passenger report on government use of Challenger jets

The Harper government says it is unable to provide the names of passengers who have flown on its fleet of Challenger executive jets since 2006 because it would take longer than a month-and-a-half to assemble the list.

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Related Topix: Paul Martin

Free Republic

14,700 Taxpayers Voluntarily Disclosed Foreign Accounts to IRS

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the agency received voluntary disclosures about the presence of billions of dollars in assets in bank accounts located in 70 countries.

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Related Topix: Tax

Central Jersey

Computer glitch delaying flights across United States fixed

A problem with the FAA system that collects airline flight plans caused widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday, the second time in 15 months that a glitch created such problems.

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Related Topix: Computers, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, The National, Entertainment, Television, New York

CBS News

Congo Plane Lands in Lava

A passenger plane overshot the runway Thursday, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a U.N.-run radio station reported.

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, US Politics, US News

Reuters

Bon Jovi comes full "Circle" at No. 1 on U.S. chart

Bon Jovi claimed its fourth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday, despite a sharp drop in sales.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bon Jovi, Entertainment

KWQC-TV Davenport

Request for new judge granted in Ariz. boy's case

A new judge will take over the case of a 9-year-old eastern Arizona boy who killed his father's roommate after a defense motion for new oversight was granted Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Apache County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Spokesman Review

Idaho unemployment notches up again

Idaho's unemployment rate has notched up again, this time by a tenth of a percentage point to 9 percent, the highest since June of 1983.

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Related Topix: Idaho Government, Idaho

WTVF Nashville

The 2009 Holiday Season

The holiday season is a time for gathering and celebrating with friends and family, gift-giving, reflection and thanks.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas

Salem-News.com

Forecasters Expect Long-term Job Growth in Oregon

The Oregon Employment Department has released its projections of employment for 2018.

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WebCPA

14,700 Taxpayers Disclosed Foreign Accounts to IRS

Over 14,700 holders of foreign bank accounts told the Internal Revenue Service about the existence of the accounts under a voluntary disclosure program.

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Related Topix: Tax

KGUN-TV Tucson

Man convicted in jail beating sentenced to die

A man convicted of first-degree murder in the vicious beating of another inmate in Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail has been sentenced to death.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ, Death Penalty, Phoenix, AZ

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Newsday.com

Va. inmate who killed 2 executed by electric chair

Larry Bill Elliott was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Prison, Greensville Correctional Center, State Prisons

Surrey Hants Star

GM to cut 'fewer jobs' at Vauxhall

A billboard advertising the Astra at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant, Cheshire. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images General Motors ' new plan for Vauxhall is likely to result in significantly fewer job losses than the aborted takeover by the Magna consortium, the US car group's European boss has promised.

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KTVN Reno

Teen girls at higher risk for STDs: report

Teen girls aged 15 to 19 accounted for the largest number of the 1.5 million reported chlamydia and gonorrhea cases in the United States in 2008, followed by women aged 20 to 24, according to an annual federal report released Monday.

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Related Topix: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Medicine, Health, African-American, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chico Enterprise Record

Jump in fall-run Feather River salmon a mystery

Larry Ludvigson with the Department of Fish and Game sorts salmon at the Feather River Fish Hatchery during the Salmon Festival in Oroville on Sept.

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Related Topix: Oroville, CA, Chico, CA, Chico Metro, Anderson, CA

PressConnects.com

Elmira tax rate up 1.76% in proposed budget

The tax rate in Elmira will go up 1.76 percent next year under a $28.68 million proposed budget unveiled Monday by City Manager John Burin.

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Related Topix: Elmira, NY

Newsday.com

Food summit turns down UN funding appeal

Pope Benedict XVI , left, listens as United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf delivers his speech at the inaugural ceremony of a World Summit on Food Security at the FAO headquarters, in Rome , Monday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Agriculture, Science, Pope Benedict XVI

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