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Thousands in Dark After Northwest Storm

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Residents of the Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm Saturday after the worst windstorm in more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses and killed at least six people.  more
Nuggets and Knicks Erupt in Wild Brawl

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The NBA has another ugly scene to recover from. This one involved its leading scorer and happened in its most famous arena. Denver's Carmelo Anthony and the other nine players on the court at the time were ejected for fighting during a wild brawl between the Nuggets and Knicks, triggered in part by a New York team that felt it was being shown up on its home floor.  more
T.O. Helps Cowboys Ground Falcons 38-28

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Terrell Owens was spitting mad, and he made the Atlanta Falcons pay in a big way. Owens hauled in a couple of touchdown passes, leading the Dallas Cowboys to a playoff-bolstering 38-28 victory over Atlanta and getting back at Falcons nemesis DeAngelo Hall along the way Saturday night.  more
Edwards Set to Launch '08 Bid; Bayh Out

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Sen. Evan Bayh on Saturday ended his White House bid while 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards finalized plans to get in, fast-paced jockeying in a Democratic race under the shadow of two unannounced candidates.  more
21 Die in Fire at Pakistan Wedding Party
A fire erupted in a wedding tent in eastern Pakistan, triggering a stampede and the collapse of a wall that killed the bride and 20 other women and children, police said Sunday.  more
Market Reports
Star Trib Plagiarism Probe Clears Writer
A Star Tribune editorial page writer who wrote two pieces containing similarities to two commentaries in The New Yorker magazine will return to work after a newspaper review did not find further problems in his work.  more
BP Told to Detail Pipe Replacement Plan
Federal regulators have ordered oil giant BP PLC to submit more details about its plans for replacing corroded pipelines at Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field.  more
Strikers Picket 150 Goodyear Stores

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Union members battling Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. took their picket lines to about 150 tire retailers in the U.S. and Canada on Saturday, making their case directly to consumers for health care and retirement benefits.  more
Carmakers Fight Global Warming Lawsuit
The six largest automakers asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.  more
Spain Suspends Air Madrid's License

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Spain suspended the flying license of Air Madrid airline Saturday, hours after the troubled carrier announced it was halting operations, leaving thousands of passengers stranded in Spain and abroad.  more
Entertainment
Joey Lauren Adams Shows Film in Ark.
Joey Lauren Adams says she got tired of waiting for the phone to ring with acting job offers, so she decided to go behind the camera for her directorial debut "Come Early Morning."  more
Barry Gibb Plans Country Record in Tenn.
If former Bee Gee Barry Gibb was looking for some inspiration for the country album he plans to record here, he couldn't have picked a more hallowed piece of ground to put down stakes.  more
Veteran French Rocker Escapes Taxes

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Johnny Hallyday is the closest thing France has to Elvis, so the veteran rocker's announcement that he is moving across the border to Switzerland to escape high taxes has come as a bombshell.  more
Smithsonian TV Deal Irks Investigators
Two filmmakers were refused access to the Smithsonian Institution's collections for their projects but researchers generally have not been restricted so far by the Smithsonian's semi-exclusive deal with a cable network, congressional investigators say.  more
Publisher Behind O.J. Simpson Book Fired

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Extra! Extra! The press release arrived with a headline worthy of Rupert Murdoch: HARPERCOLLINS TERMINATES JUDITH REGAN. So ended, at least for now, one of the book world's most profitable and provocative careers.  more
Health & Medical
Low-Fat Diets May Help Some Dodge Cancer

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The first experiment ever to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer follow-up, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.  more
Bacteria Outbreak Closes Hospital Units
A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said.  more
State Pandemic Preparations Vary Widely

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Trailers packed with cots and medical supplies are parked in secret locations around Colorado, ready for doctors to open makeshift hospitals in school gyms if a flu pandemic strikes.  more
Survivors Recall Horror of Flu Pandemic

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At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C.  more
300 Say They Got Ill at Olive Garden

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More than 300 people say they became ill, and at least three have been hospitalized, after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant last weekend, health officials said Friday.  more
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High Tech
Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You

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Congratulations! You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."  more
Computer Worm Attacks Business PCs
A computer worm is attacking some business PCs through a flaw in antivirus software by Symantec Corp., a security company warned Friday.  more
New NYC Taxis to Have TV and Tracking
New York's next generation of cabs is coming _ complete with TV. The new features _ designed to help riders pass the time, pay the fare and even find their lost umbrellas _ are expected to start hitting the streets within two weeks.  more
Amazon Countersues IBM Over Patents
Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.  more
Phone, Cable Companies to Battle in 2007

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Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.  more
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