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ATLANTA – After years of promoting the chemical DEET (search) as the best defense against West Nile-bearing mosquitoes, the government for the first time is recommending the use of two other insect repellents. Repellents containing the chemical picaridin (search) or the oil of lemon eucalyptus offer “long-lasting protection against mosquito …

FOND DU LAC, Wis. – Singer Art Garfunkel (search) has an appearance slated in Wisconsin this week — a court date for a speeding ticket. Garfunkel, 63, was in Wisconsin last month for a concert at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton. Records show that he was ticketed …

Two California men may still be “dumb asses,” a court has ruled. The pair, former candidates for the Hollister City Council (search), sued another man for libel in 2001 after he put up a Web site comparing them to mute donkeys. But a three-judge panel last week found that calling …