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Prosecutors reached a $458 million settlement with contractors over tunnel defects that caused a fatal 2006 accident _ but a small contractor that isn’t involved in the agreement says it unfairly spares the most responsible party from criminal charges.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s more determined than ever to press ahead with her campaign.
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Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, under pressure from both parties to resign over sexual harassment by an aide and his own extramarital affair, tried to cut a deal...
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Senator Jay Rockefeller wins an easy victory in West Virginia’s Democratic primary.
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No government money will be awarded for rebuilding any of the 114 homes leveled by a deadly tornado that tore through one of the nation’s most polluted areas,...
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Like the American flag that Francis Scott Key famously wrote about, the one on Barack Obama’s lapel keeps appearing and disappearing.
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House Democrats are proposing a tax surcharge on millionaires to pay for a big increase in education benefits for veterans of the war in Iraq, lawmakers said Tuesday.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won most of the delegates in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday.
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James Garner’s publicist says the veteran TV and film star has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a minor stroke at his home last week.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s shellacking of Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary Tuesday may burnish her image as a champion of the economically disadvantaged...
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A woman who hid her teenage crime and became a California homemaker with three children returned to a Michigan prison Tuesday to serve at least 5 1/2 more years of her...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton has won a large but largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary. She defeated Barack Obama, but he’s still the leader and closing...
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When does the conductor answer to the semiconductor? When a robot is leading the symphony.
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Investigators searched Tuesday for one or more arsonists behind a string of stubborn wildfires that have destroyed or damaged more than 160 homes on Florida’s...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic...
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Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped Phil Spector re-invent rock ‘n’ roll music with his “Wall of Sound” technique and won a Grammy...
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Two part owners of last year’s Preakness winner went on trial Tuesday on charges they defrauded clients out of millions in a case being watched closely by the...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic...
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Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom...
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At least two major oil companies said late Wednesday they have agreed to settle lawsuits over the use of the gasoline additive MTBE, a potential carcinogen that has...
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While asserting that the proposed $4.85 billion settlement for illness associated with Vioxx remains on track, the painkiller’s manufacturer on Thursday extended...
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A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a $37 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport and more than 160 people who say they were sexually...
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Former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines and two other top executives are paying a total of nearly $31.4 million in a settlement with the government announced Friday...
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Federal regulators said seven electronics manufacturers have agreed to pay a total of $3.4 million to settle possible violations of a digital television rule.
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Families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shootings have reached an $11 million settlement with the state, lawyers said Thursday. The deal is designed to prevent...
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Lawyers for families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shootings say they have reached an $11 million settlement with the state.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will pay $20 million to settle the last in a series of lawsuits that claimed it was responsible for poisoning water in the Mojave Desert...
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The state will pay $1.9 million to 30 female inmates and a corrections employee who accused a former prison sergeant of raping or harassing them, state officials said...
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Families of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings have been given an extra week to respond to a settlement the state is proposing to prevent lawsuits, people...
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Citigroup Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $1.66 billion to creditors of Enron Corp. who lost money when the energy trader collapsed in 2001.
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Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings have until March 31 to say whether they’ll accept a settlement that would include $100,000 each and the...
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A relative of a Virginia Tech shooting victim says the families of those killed would receive $100,000 each under a settlement designed to prevent lawsuits.
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CVS Caremark Corp. agreed to pay almost $37 million to nearly two dozen states and the federal government to settle claims that the nation’s largest pharmacy...
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Online advertiser ValueClick Inc. will pay $2.9 million to settle charges that it made deceptive claims in e-mails and online ads, a government agency said Monday.
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Text of statement released by the Family Court on the financial settlement for Heather Mills in her divorce from Paul McCartney:
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More than 44,000 people have signed up for shares of a $4.85 billion settlement over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, a sign that the deal is on track to go forward,...
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The drugmaker Merck says more than 44,000 people have signed up for part of a $4.85 billion settlement over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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EBay Inc. has settled a seven-year patent dispute with MercExchange LLC that prompted an important intellectual-property ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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New College students Bailey Howard, center, and Kathryn Klein, right, sift through soil while searching for possible evidence of a slave settlement known as Angola during an archeology excavation near the Manatee River Friday, March 28, 2008 in...
