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Palin appears to disagree with McCain on sex education
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTeen pregnancy and sex education were thrust into the spotlight this week when Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant. Palin's running mate, John McCain, and the GOP platform say...Tags: Jamie Lynn Spears, Political Campaigns, People, Family, Sarah Palin
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New documentary focuses on historical role of Puerto Ricans in Chicago
Chicago Tribune reporterThe war in Vietnam was killing thousands of Latinos and, in Chicago, scores of families were being evicted from "renewed" neighborhoods like Lincoln Park. It was September 1968, and a gang of mostly Puerto Rican and Mexican teenagers called the Young...Tags: Minority Groups, Wicker Park, Health and Safety at School, Family, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Government preps plan to back Fannie, Freddie
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk the companies could fail, a person briefed on the matter said Friday night. Some of...Tags: Stock Broking, Financial and Business Services, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, National Government, Ben Bernanke
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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CDT
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. The Institute of Medicine said drafts of...Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Police Arrests, Trials, Riots, Minnesota
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W'burg urges residents to "shelter in place"
Daily PressAlthough Williamsburg city officials plan to monitor Tropical Storm Hanna, as of Friday afternoon the city does not plan to open the city shelter at Quarterpath Recreation Center. City officials are asking residents to "shelter in place." If weather...Tags: Tropical Storm Hanna, Tropical Storms, Williamsburg, Public Officials
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Summary Box: Privatizing Illinois lottery
PAST: Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposed privatizing the lottery last year, but the idea fell flat. This year, the Illinois Senate approved a revised version. PRESENT: The House is considering the idea with some changes, including restrictions on the...Tags: Executive Branch, Tourism and Leisure, Casino and Gambling, Casino and Gambling Industry, Illinois
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Ill. state workers' union OKs 4-year contract
Members of Illinois' largest state employees union have approved a four-year contract that increases their pay 15.25 percent. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents more than 37,000 state workers, announced...Tags: Unions, Government Health Care, Health Treatments, Employees, Civil and Public Service
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Henry named to Forum Communications board
Barbara Henry has been selected to serve on the board of directors of Forum Communications Co. Henry, 56, lives in Indianapolis and recently retired as senior group president of Gannett Co.'s Interstate and Mid-South Newspaper groups. She also was...Tags: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Gannett Company Incorporated, North Dakota, National Government
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Palin draws enthusiastic crowd in Cedarburg
Associated Press WriterSarah Palin gets Jeanne Cassinelli excited. The 39-year-old homemaker from Oak Creek hadn't heard of Alaska's governor before Republican John McCain picked her as his running mate last week. But now there's a candidate Cassinelli can identify with....Tags: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin, Elections, Republican National Conventions
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Tropical Storm Hanna set to soak East Coast
From the Associated PressBeach vacationers in the Carolinas packed up and headed inland today as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised steadily toward the coast, teetering on the verge of becoming a hurricane before an expected overnight landfall. The storm will likely wash out the...Tags: Virginia, Beach Vacations, Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, North Carolina
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Palins lawyer has already questioned 2 witnesses
The lawyer for Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is moving swiftly to head off the controversy known as "Troopergate." With the country's attention focused on Palin the national candidate, lawyer Thomas Van...Tags: Prosecution, Lawyers, Health and Safety at Work, Sarah Palin, Elections
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News from around Wisconsin at 6:58 p.m. CDT
A Michigan man accused in a shooting rampage that killed three teenage swimmers at a river on the Wisconsin-Michigan border pleaded insanity to 10 felonies Friday, including new counts that he tried to kill six other teens. Scott J. Johnson, 38, of...Tags: Trials, Murder, Prisons, Health Organizations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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