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Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 11:07pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four major universities are joining theater companies in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta in a project to commission new plays, music and dance compositions about the Civil War and its lasting legacy 150 years later....

Senate Dems' bill light on deficit cuts in 2013

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 10:44pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House-backed legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would raise the deficit through the end of the budget year by tens of billions of dollars, officials said late Wednesday as the two parties maneuvered for public support on economic issues....

Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 9:58pm
BOSTON (AP) -- Loved ones knew it was her at the hospital when they saw her teeth....

Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 9:58pm
BOSTON (AP) -- Loved ones knew it was her at the hospital when they saw her teeth....

Whistle-blower suit claimed Navy kickbacks in 2006

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 9:28pm
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit claims a former civilian Navy employee from Virginia and a now-defunct Navy contractor engaged in a bribery and kickback scheme going back to at least 2004....

Whistle-blower suit claimed Navy kickbacks in 2006

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 9:28pm
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit claims a former civilian Navy employee from Virginia and a now-defunct Navy contractor engaged in a bribery and kickback scheme going back to at least 2004....

Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 8:50pm
BOSTON (AP) -- Loved ones knew it was her at the hospital when they saw her teeth....

Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 8:32pm
CLINTON, Miss. (AP) -- Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates, saying its example should inspire the rest of the country....

A troubled grandmother, a birthday and 2 dead boys

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 7:47pm
NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) -- Debra Denison's struggles with mental illness were well known in her family, and when she wanted to pick up her grandsons from day care to mark the older boy's birthday, mother Brenda Perry hesitated....

Boston fraternity raises funds for pledge surgery

Wed, 2013/02/27 - 7:03pm
BOSTON (AP) -- A college fraternity in Boston has raised more than twice the money needed to pay for a new pledge's gender transition surgery....