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QA Kree Harrison on Being American Idol Season 12 Runner-Up
champ. Still, the title of runner-up certainly isn’t anything to scoff at. The 23-year-old Texan, known for her country roots and pleasant personality, effortlessly sang songs by Patty Griffin, Rascal Flatts ...
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Students cant resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you
By Bob Sullivan, Columnist, NBC News Are gadgets making us dumber? Two new studies suggest they might be. One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test. A second demonstrated that some students, even when on their best behavior, can't concentrate on homework for more than two minutes without distracting themselves by using social ...
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Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade surprises fan at prom
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade made one high school senior's night when he showed up unexpectedly at her prom.Wade walked into a ballroom with roses and hugged Nicole Muxo on Friday night as her classmates from Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School cheered.Muxo posted a YouTube video in April asking Wade to the prom. She knew it was unlikely with the Heat heading to ...
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Watch Powerball Jackpot Spending $600 Million in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is synonymous with wealth. Prestige and exclusivity. Some of -- -- thanks to the powerball. Tourists here to check out the lives of the rich and the famous are now thinking about ...
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Watch Search for Missing Woman in San Bernardino Mountains
The search for Karen Tillman took on increasing urgency with search and rescue crews looking for the 59 year old -- -- And on foot and on horseback. -- son Dan -- also joined the search effort ...
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Chicago Teachers Union Begins 3-Day Citywide March
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal to close dozens of schools. It starts Saturday and organizers are billing it as a march for ';education ...
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State Sen. Pushes Legislation Aimed To Curb Burglaries
(CBS) — Republican Senator Kirk Dillard is pushing legislation he says might help curb break-ins that are occurring throughout the Western suburbs, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig ...
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Absolutely staggering Dozens injured in Connecticut train crash
By M. Alex Johnson and Carlo Dellaverson, NBC News Sixty people were injured, five of them critically, and rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn., Gov. Dan Malloy said.An eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport ...
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Women sad angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
An insurance company has bought out a nonprofit home for struggling women in Cincinnati in a deal announced Monday, ending a bitter two-year court battle over the historic property in a picturesque downtown ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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What To Do In Los Angeles The HiddenLA Way
Lynn Garrett knows that loving Los Angeles means looking beyond the stucco facades and traffic pileups, and whatever Hollywood meltdown you saw last night on TMZ. "Los Angeles has a heart that's hidden to most of the world," she says, which is why Garrett ...
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Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings
Chicago Teachers are taking a stand once again in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools in low income Chicago communities-this time with ...
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Belly-landing caught on camera at Newark airport
YouTube video shows sparks flying as a plane makes an emergency belly-landing at Newark's Liberty International Airport. Meanwhile, half way around the world in Russia, passengers of another plane had to make an emergency evacuation after the landing gear caught ...
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Analyst O.J. Simpson unlikely to prevail in retrial attempt
O.J. Simpson is arguing he deserves a new trial because his former attorney mishandled the first trial. "There's no writing, there's no smoking gun supporting O.J.'s position," said TODAY legal analyst Lisa Bloom. "He's probably more likely to win Powerball." TODAY's Lester Holt interviews Lisa ...
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Simpson’s ex-lawyer I could not have fought harder
He was once O.J. Simpson's attorney, but on Friday, it was Yale Galanter who was on the defensive, saying he could not have fought harder for his client. "I put every ounce of blood, sweat and soul I had into defending him," Galanter said, as OJ Simpson asks to be granted a retrial. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin ...
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Feds accuse two Sanford brothers of scam involving U.S. Army equipment
U.S. Army and plotted to rip off the government for military equipment, including armor-piecing ammunition, federal officials say.Husein Kermali, 37, and Sikandar Kermali, 33, are suspected of purchasing the power tools from a soldier stationed with the Army Active Guard Reserve in Orlando, Sebastian Stewart Oyegun II.In June, Oyegun signed a plea agreement admitting guilt to a count of theft of ...
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Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet
Candice Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named "American Idol", becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since ...
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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American Idol Who is the shows greatest discovery
"American Idol." Now new victor Candice Glover can start competing with all the contestants who came before her. Her first single, "I Am Beautiful," suggests she is off to a strong start. And the blessing of Aretha Franklin, given on national television, should encourage any young singer. Who are the show's greatest winners? I'd ...
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American engineers death suicide or cyber-espionage
(CBS News) The death of an American computer engineer, Shane Todd, in Singapore has created quite a stir. His parents contend he was murdered, but authorities say it was suicide. The mystery seems to have links to the dark world of cyber-spying and could possibly involve China. Rick and Mary Todd traveled from Montana to Singapore to prove that their son was actually the victim of a web of ...
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Judge denies defense request to photograph Tsarnaev
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to take photographs of their client. Tsarnaev's attorneys had sought permission to take "current and periodic" pictures of him and not be obligated to turn them over to U.S. prosecutors. Magistrate Marianne Bowler said in a written order Friday Tsarnaev's defense team had not proven such images are subject to attorney-client ...
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Canada uneasy about oil-sands byproduct accumulation
A member of the Canadian Parliament said he wants an investigation with the United States into a three-story mound of coke piling up at a refinery in Ontario. The coke is a by-product of the refining of oil sands and has been piling up quickly at the Marathon refinery in Windsor along the Detroit River. "Here's a little bit of Alberta," said Brian Masse, one of Windsor's ...
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Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
In search of new revenue, the state parks system is eyeing parking fees for parts of the Northern California shoreline where none existed before. It's also mulling hiking rates at popular beaches south of Los Angeles during peak ...
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Native American tale Jimmy P comes to Cannes with international pedigree
CANNES, France - It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies competing for the prestigious ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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