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Obama presses Congress again to pass his tax plan

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 14th

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is prodding Congress to "skip the unnecessary drama" and pass his proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to families earning less than $250,000 a year but not for those who earn more. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama denounces what he calls "

Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight

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By JEFF BARNARDAssociated Press BEND, Ore. (AP) - A gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Oregon to Montana in tandem lawn chairs suspended from party balloons made a hard landing Saturday after aborting their flight due to thunderstorms - but their craft kept flying. Kent

UN team investigates reported Syria massacre

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By BEN HUBBARDAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - U.N. observers investigating a reported mass killing in a Syrian village on Saturday found pools of blood in homes and spent bullets, mortars and artillery shells, adding details to the emerging picture of what anti-regime activists have called one of

Hurricane Fabio strengthens in Pacific, no threat

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MIAMI (AP) - Forecasters say Hurricane Fabio will likely strengthen before weakening as it moves through the Pacific but that it won't threaten land. The National Weather Service in Miami says Fabio has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (145 kph) and is about 530 miles (853 kilometers)

AP Source: Lin signs offer sheet with Rockets

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By CHRIS DUNCANAP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) - The Houston Rockets had Jeremy Lin in training camp last December. Now they want him back. Lin has signed an offer sheet with Houston, according to a person with direct knowledge of the move. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Friday night

Campaign focus on Virginia, 'Mother of Presidents'

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By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The presidential motorcade, the cordon of Secret Service agents, the sight of a president campaigning on a small-town street. Heady stuff - and new for Virginia during a presidential race. For decades, the commonwealth was one of the 40-

Peru's anti-riot tactics unmatched in lethality

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By FRANK BAJAK and FRANKLIN BRICENOAssociated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) - Sixteen-year-old Cesar Medina was returning home from an Internet cafe, his mother says, and got caught up in a crowd of demonstrators when police and soldiers opened fire. A bullet tore into his head, killing him instantly.

Auditors say billions likely wasted in Iraq work

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By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - After years of following the paper trail of $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to rebuild a broken Iraq, the U.S. government can say with certainty that too much was wasted. But it can't say how much. In what it called

Legal expert links PSU, Catholic church scandals

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By MARK SCOLFORO and MARYCLAIRE DALEAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Legal experts say emails and other evidence from the Penn State sex abuse case suggest that Joe Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse

More Lightning Tonight?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 14th

>>>TRACK LIVE WEATHER RADAR USING HD DOPPLER 6i Monday: A pleasant day with partly cloudy skies…Then, a weak disturbance traveling from south to north fuels passing T-Storms during for the evening…Low/High 60°/86° Tuesday: May be very similar to Monday