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Will IBM's female leader be granted access to the golf club like her four predecessors were?

As a club that prides itself on tradition, Augusta National again is in the middle of a membership debate it thought it was done with nearly a decade ago.


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Harrison sets up race task force, brings in civil rights speaker—but area's reputation will be tough to reverse

HARRISON, Ark. (AP) -- When a black man supposedly broke into a white man's home in 1905, a mob ran most black people out of town - and instantly gave this community a lasting reputation as being too dangerous for minorities.

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Here are some of the facts of the case that have been established

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The fatal shooting of a black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain who then went free has led to nationwide protests calling for the shooter's arrest.


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Obama and Democrats were ready to boost taxes on families making above $250,000 and on oil and gas companies, add spending for roads and schools and cull more modest savings from domestic programs

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich.


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Lawyers believe 40,000 to 65,000 individuals are eligible to claim a piece of $1.2 billion sum

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father's Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - but was turned down.


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Clayton Osbon sprinted down aisle yelling about a bomb and bewildering those aboard

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Passengers aboard an early morning flight from New York bound for Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied bathroom.


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Oregon, Washington, Idaho among the spots with expansive definitions of "stand your ground"

"Stand Your Ground," "Shoot First," "Make My Day" -- state laws asserting an expansive right to self-defense -- have come into focus after last month's killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.


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Recent decrease brings cost for commodity to 10-year low, but savings might be going right to the gas tank

NEW YORK (AP) -- Natural gas prices fell again Tuesday amid doubts that consumers, businesses or industry can put a significant dent in the huge surplus of the fuel in the U.S.


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In Long Island scheme, some students were paid as much as $3,500 to serve as stand ins

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Students taking college entrance exams this fall will have to submit photo IDs with their applications - a key security upgrade following a widespread cheating scandal at a number of high schools on New York's Long Island, a prosecutor and testing officials announced Tuesday.


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37-year-old Richard Lee Norris was injured in gun accident in 1997

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A 37-year-old Virginia man injured in a 1997 gun accident has received what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed.


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