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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 …

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), …

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), …