TRAVERSE CITY, Mich – The nation’s largest supplier of bullet-resistant vests to law enforcement agencies is urging its customers to replace vests containing the fiber Zylon (search), saying they may not be safe. Second Chance Body Armor (search) said Wednesday it had sent notices to police agencies nationwide. The warning …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The first government search in decades for a nuclear bomb lost off the Georgia (search) coast in 1958 found no trace of the sunken weapon, the Air Force said in a report Friday. The report, released nine months after scientists tested radiation levels off Tybee Island (search), …
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Knight-Ridder reports that a thoroughbred horse owner in Kentucky who wanted to name his new filly after the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson (search) allegedly had an affair was told he couldn’t because it may be offensive to people of African descent. The horse’s owner, history buff Garrett Redmond (search), …
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CAMARILLO, Calif. – Gas prices (search) surged an average of 8 cents a gallon during a two-week period, tracking the steep climb in the cost of crude oil, according to an industry survey Sunday. With the summer driving season under way, the average retail price for all three grades of …
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TRENTON, N.J. – A millionaire businessman won New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday and earned the right to face Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine (search) in November — the state’s first race for governor since James McGreevey resigned in a gay-sex scandal. Doug Forrester (search) edged former Jersey City Mayor Bret …
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BOSTON – A proposed ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage (search) passed a key hurdle Wednesday when the state attorney general ruled it would be permitted under a section of the state constitution allowing voters to overturn court decisions. The action by Attorney General Tom Reilly (search), a Democrat …
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DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. (F) said on Monday it has agreed to sell its daily rental subsidiary Hertz Motor Company (search) to a group of private equity firms for $5.6 billion. Ford, the nation’s second biggest automaker, said it will sell all of Hertz shares to the group …
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LONDON – A gray-haired woman in a dark pantsuit strides across a New York street. Her image, filmed from afar, is barely in focus. But it’s unmistakably Greta Garbo (search). “One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,” comments Julie Christie as she begins …
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LOS ANGELES – A Pakistani man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiring to illegally export U.S. military jet engine parts to the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Belgium. Arif Ali Durrani (search), 56, appeared in federal court days after prosecutors dropped similar charges against him in an unrelated …
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WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (search) announced Tuesday that he intends to oppose confirmation of John Roberts (search) as chief justice of the Supreme Court. “I intend to cast my vote against the nomination when the Senate meets here next week,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “For …
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