WARSAW, Poland – As pallbearers carried the simple wooden coffin of Pope John Paul II (search) into St. Peter’s Basilica for burial, one of his closest living relatives watched from Poland, unable to make the trip to Vatican City (search). “This is so sad, really sad to watch this funeral,” …
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MOUNT AIRY, N.C. – Two fans of the “The Andy Griffith Show” have commissioned a life-sized bronze statue of Barney Fife that they plan to donate to Mount Airy, N.C., the model for the show’s fictional town of Mayberry. Tom Hellebrand and Neal Shelton are raising money for the $35,000 …
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NEW YORK – U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell slightly over the past two weeks and could ease a bit more in coming weeks amid larger U.S. stocks of gasoline and flat demand, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg survey. The national average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas was …
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MANCHESTER, England – Police on Wednesday arrested nine people suspected of giving support to terrorism outside Britain, Greater Manchester Police said. Police served warrants at a number of addresses beginning at 3 a.m. local time, the force said. About 500 officers were involved in the operation, and searches were continuing …
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If your inbox is clogged with e-mail missives from supposedly deposed African royalty and hucksters posing as eBay, GRISOFT has added anti-spam and anti-phishing protection from Mailshell to its suite of security tools. Mailshell’s SpamCompiler engine determines an e-mail’s legitimacy by executing more than one million filter checks in a …
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AMRITAPURI, India – The droves who come here leave with no souvenirs, no memories of posh hotels, nothing more than they brought. All they came for was a hug. The woman offering the soft embrace is considered a guru, and her tender approach and simple message have galvanized followers to …
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LOS ANGELES – Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap. Starting Monday, Vivid Entertainment says it will sell its adult …
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BOULDER, Colo. – An investigation of a professor who likened some of the Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi found serious cases of misconduct in his academic research, including plagiarism and fabrications, a University of Colorado spokesman said Tuesday. One member of the five-person investigative committee recommended that ethnic studies …
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SEYMOUR, Ind. – A team from the National Weather Service determined Thursday that a tornado touched down in the city, blowing off several roofs and overturning mobile homes. The path of the tornado was a half-mile wide at one point Wednesday evening, meteorologist Dave Tucek said. It destroyed some homes …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two crew members ventured out of the international space station Thursday night for a nearly six-hour spacewalk filled with maintenance tasks such as replacing a camera and fixing an oxygen system. “OK. We’re going out,” said Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov as he and U.S. flight engineer …
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