| Black Friday deals await holiday shoppers (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 12:37 AM CST  AP - The nation's retailers are set to usher in the holiday shopping season Friday with pre-dawn openings, deep discounts and a downright dismal economic outlook that threatens to keep shoppers' credit cards securely in their wallets.
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| 'Space family' says goodbye as mission nears end (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:31 AM CST  AP - Seven astronauts piled into space shuttle Endeavour for the return trip to Earth after eating Thanksgiving dinner, leaving their counterparts at the international space station like relatives parting ways from a holiday visit.
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| Food banks report spike in needy on Thanksgiving (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 01:06 AM CST  AP - The line for a Thanksgiving meal was long when the Chicago Christian Industrial League shelter opened Thursday morning, and volunteers served more than 200 people in the first 40 minutes record demand for the shelter.
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| Western governors to Obama: Act quickly on energy (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:32 AM CST  AP - The governors of the nation's largest energy-producing states are encouraging President-elect Barack Obama to quickly adopt a national energy policy that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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| Tip helps police nab suspect in TV anchor's death (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 02:25 AM CST  AP - The phones began ringing at police headquarters soon after local television stations broadcast a picture of a man accused of killing a popular TV anchorwoman. Within an hour and a half, he was in custody.
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| Indian-Americans track down loved ones in Mumbai (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 07:15 PM CST  AP - Angela Mulchandami was relieved to see her mother made it aboard a flight from Mumbai to Atlanta Thursday morning.
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| Patients treat serious illness as laughing matter (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2008 12:50 AM CST  AP - The off-color jokes flew around the room. As the anecdotes got bawdier, the laughter intensified. Some recited from memory, others read from notebooks they brought along.
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| Police: Tip led to arrest of Reno rapist suspect (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:37 PM CST  AP - Early in their investigation into the kidnapping and slaying of a young college woman, Reno police were convinced the suspect they described as a serial rapist was a chameleon who blended in with a community grieving the loss of Brianna Denison.
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| Not-so-jolly economy brings woe to Santa's lap (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 06:19 PM CST  AP - Some of the kids crawling onto Santa Joe's lap this year have more than stuffed animals and video games on their most-wanted lists. Several times already this season, Joe Jackson has been asked to get Daddy a job or Mommy money to buy the house back.
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| Indiana woman dies at 115 as world's oldest person (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 06:24 PM CST  AP - Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.
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| SUV plunges off Colo. highway overpass, killing 7 (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 03:03 PM CST  AP - An SUV plunged off an overpass in northern Colorado and hit a concrete embankment in a fiery crash early Thursday morning, killing all seven people inside it, including two young children, authorities said.
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| Huge crowds cheer NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 03:27 PM CST  AP - Val Bonner planned for a decade to attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on her 50th birthday, and this year she got her wish Thursday, joining throngs of holiday revelers in Manhattan cheering the giant balloons and thousands of marchers.
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| $5M oasis for war wounded to open at Texas base (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:28 PM CST  AP - Judith Markelz has relied on volunteers for years to help the war wounded and their families. They've brought meals, DVDs, event tickets and an endless supply of cookies to help comfort those whose lives suddenly were upended by a bomb or a bullet.
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| Santa Ana police pull over, stun naked DUI suspect (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 02:01 PM CST AP - California authorities got a shock of their own when they discovered that a drunken driving suspect they had just stunned with a Taser was completely naked. |
| Atlantic hurricane season blows away records (AP) Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:44 AM CST  AP - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.
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