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  • NEWPORT - The effort to transform Newport High School received a boost this week with a $770,117 award from the federal School Improvement Grant. Newport…
  • The Pima County (Arizona) Republican Party is selling chances on a Glock 23 .40-caliber handgun. Pima County part of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' district. And the gun used to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Giffords, was a Glock.
  • The Kentucky Wildcats opened their 2011 football season with a 14-3 victory over Western Kentucky last night in Nashville. UK notched the win despite…
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  • The president says "reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover" prompted his administration to rethink.
  • August job numbers are showing a stagnant 9.1 percent unemployment rate. Concern is growing over whether the government could do more to boost job growth. Host Michel Martin speaks with U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis about the administration's efforts to create new jobs and what can be expected from President Obama's jobs plan next week
  • The prime minister is heard disparaging his country in a tape secretly recorded by police. The recording happened during the course of an investigation into whether Berlusconi was being blackmailed.
  • People exposed to the cloud of contaminants that engulfed Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks were less likely to die than people who weren't exposed, according to a new study. But other research found a small boost in cancer rates among first responders, as well as elevated depression and PTSD.
  • The nation's unemployment rate remains just above 9 percent, and political observers say it's just about impossible to cast that kind a number in a positive light. That puts extra pressure on President Obama ahead of next week's jobs announcement.
  • The House actor worked with Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John and other New Orleans greats on his debut album, Let Them Talk.
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