NEW YORK – American Airlines and JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) raised ticket prices in various markets late on Thursday, following similar decisions by Delta, United and Continental Airlines Thursday, as airlines seek to recoup some of their increased costs from record fuel prices. No. 1 U.S. airline American, owned by …
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You don’t need a CT scan to tell if your partner snores. But high-tech medical images may explain why he or she is snoring. Compared to people who don’t snore, snorers have narrower throats and longer soft palates (the soft part of the roof of the mouth). That’s according to …
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LINCOLNTON, N.C. – Authorities said a teenager faces harassment charges for calling people in the middle of the night and telling them that something horrible had happened to their loved ones. Lincolnton police said 17-year-old Jeremy Womble made a series of prank calls over two months, pretending to be a …
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Researchers say teenagers are not using oral sex as means of preserving their virginity, the Washingtonpost.com reports. A federal survey of more than 2,200 males and females aged 15 to 19, found that teens who described themselves as virgins were less likely to say they had tried oral sex than …
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JERUSALEM – At least 14 people were injured, including 2 children, when a rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping mall in southern Israel Wednesday, just as the Israeli prime minister was warning against such attacks. The rocket struck the top floor of the Hutzot Shopping Center in Ashkelon, …
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A 20-year-old Austrian woman who was held captive for eight years now owns the house near Vienna in which she was imprisoned and kept in a dungeon, SkyNews reported. Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped at the age of 10 in 1998 by Wolfgang Priklopil, who threw himself in front of a …
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazil’s government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday. • Click here to view …
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FORT BLISS, Texas – This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer. But the party is over at Fort Bliss. …
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NEW YORK – Gov. David Paterson pledged Thursday to examine undercover police conduct in the aftermath of the 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man. Standing with the slain man’s fiancee and the Rev. Al Sharpton a day after they and more than 200 other demonstrators were arrested while protesting …
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Spc. Loren Dauterman, who trained at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin last month with the National Guard, found something good to say about the falling-apart floors and ceilings in her quarters. Barely. “It is better than sleeping out in the woods,” Dauterman said last week, “but not …
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