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Toll Brothers 4Q net income soars on tax benefit

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By By MICHELLE CHAPMANAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Toll Brothers says its fiscal fourth-quarter net income soared, helped by a large income tax benefit and a 48 percent rise in revenue. The luxury homebuilder delivered more homes and its order backlog increased. CEO Douglas C. Yearley Jr

US bank earnings up 6.6 pct., most in 6 years

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By By MARCY GORDONAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. banks earned more from July through September than in any other quarter over the past six years. The increase is further evidence that the industry is strengthening four years after the 2008 financial crisis. The Federal Deposit

Toll Brothers 4Q net income soars on tax benefit

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

Powerful typhoon kills at least 74 in Philippines

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By By JIM GOMEZAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Torrential floods from a powerful typhoon engulfed emergency shelters and an army truck carrying soldiers and villagers who were fleeing their homes in the southern Philippines, raising the death toll from the storm to at least 74. At

Typhoon pounds the Philippines, killing at least 7

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By By JIM GOMEZAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) - One of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year barreled across the country's south on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and forcing more than 50,000 to flee from inundated villages. Typhoon Bopha slammed into

Coast Guardsman fired gun to avoid fatal crash

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By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Coast Guardsman fired several gunshots from an inflatable boat before it was slammed by another vessel in a crash that caused the first law enforcement fatality since the smuggling of drugs and immigrants by boat began spiking along the

100,000 protest at Egypt's presidential palace

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By By HAMZA HENDAWI and AYA BATRAWYAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - More than 100,000 Egyptians protested outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday, fueling tensions over Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi's seizure of nearly unrestricted powers and the adoption by his allies of a

NFC East wide open after Redskins top Giants 17-16

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By By JOSEPH WHITEAP Sports Writer LANDOVER, Md. (AP) - There was the fumble by Robert Griffin III that turned into a Washington Redskins touchdown. There was the fumble by teammate Alfred Morris that led to a melee of leg-pulling followed by a kick to the midsection and something dangerously

NATO backs Patriot anti-missile system for Turkey

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By By SLOBODAN LEKIC and BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO announced Tuesday that it will deploy Patriot anti-missile systems near Turkey's southern border, shoring up defenses against the threat of cross-border attacks from Syria and bringing the United States and its

AP IMPACT: An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives

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By By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly