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Bonus Bytes Pujols cranking up for Cards visit
Unlike the Reds, the Cards aren't fully maximizing the opportunity to dominate teams with losing records. It's a factor in the NL Central ...
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Hockey Guy Voynov deal of Note to Blues
, a hugely productive player in Pittsburgh's offense, is poised to cash in. The Penguins organization is willing to pay him $6 million per year, but Letang is worth more in a world where Blues ...
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Bullard dissents expresses concern about low inflation
"believed that the Committee should signal more strongly its willingness to defend its inflation goal in light of recent low inflation ...
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Blunt No immigration bill without border crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, ...
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Fed suggests its closer to slowing bond-buying
Unlike the Reds, the Cards aren't fully maximizing the opportunity to dominate teams with losing records. It's a factor in the NL Central ...
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She's All That
"She's All That" is "Pygmalion" set in a Southern California high school, with the student body president and all-around athlete trying to turn a gawky, bespectacled art student into the prom queen in six weeks. The set-up is thin and much of the film is composed of predictable, well-trodden material from the John Hughes oeuvre and its imitators of the mid-1980s (anybody remember "Can't Buy Me Lo ... ...
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Pevely woman wins $1 million Powerball prize
o A Pevely woman won a $1 million Powerball jackpot by matching five numbers in the June 8 drawing, lottery officials say.Mona Diss, 57, told the Missouri Lottery she is considering buying a new car with her prize money. She bought the ticket at a Mobil On The Run station at 1632 Highway Z, Pevely.Diss plays regularly but didn't realize she won until On the Run workers encouraged her to ...
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Illinois GOP official pens allegedly racist attack on black GOP candidate
A county Republican Party chairman in central Illinois called a black female congressional candidate the "love child" of the Democratic party; a "street walker" whose "pimps" are party leaders; and suggested that after the election, she will be "working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires."And it's a Republican ...
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Fed says it will maintain pace of bond purchases
Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ...
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Bernie Bytes Enough already about Cardinals soft schedule
The Cardinals are in a stretch of playing 24 of 30 games against teams that have a losing record.The breakdown: three vs. the NY Mets, six vs. Miami, eight vs. Chicago, four vs. Houston and three against the LA Angels. Between now and July 14 the Cardinals face only two winning teams, Texas and Oakland, for a total of six games.The apparent softness of the schedule supposedly will allow the ...
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Report says big banks are violating national mortgage settlement
(c) 2013, The Washington Post.WASHINGTON -- A new study confirms allegations made by state prosecutors that some of the nation's biggest banks are violating the terms of the $25 billion national mortgage settlement, the landmark agreement to clean up shoddy foreclosure practices.The court-appointed monitor of the settlement on Wednesday issued a report saying Citigroup, Bank of America, ...