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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 …

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 …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music singer Gretchen Wilson has a mantel full of awards in her Lebanon home. Her first radio single, “Redneck Woman,” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and it earned her a 2005 Grammy. Her debut album sold 4.5 million copies. …