Feb
06

Consumer Reports rejects claim that it did Hyundai mileage study

The chart emailed from Hyundai Motor America on Wednesday morning seemed to have good news for the beleaguered South Korean...
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Feb
05

Obama urges short-term solution to prevent steep budget cuts

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to come up with short-term spending cuts and revenue increases that...
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Report: Brown threatened to shoot Ocean in fight

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigator's report states Frank Ocean told investigators that Chris Brown threatened to shoot him during a fight over a parking space last month.The report was included in a prosecution motion seeking to have Brown's probation revoked over numerous discrepancies and lax supervision of his community service sentence for the 2009 beating of Rihanna.The report says Brown punched...
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SciTimes Update: Recent Developments in Science and Health News

Red Bull Stratos/European Pressphoto AgencyFelix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from 24 miles up in Roswell, New Mexico. Tuesday in science, sharks with an image problem, good teeth get more dates, dog geniuses and remembering your dreams. Check out these headlines and other science news from around the Web. Supersonic Skydiver: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought...
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California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit

California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with...
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Feb
04

Suspected child molester left L.A. archdiocese for L.A. schools

A former priest and suspected child molester left employment with the Los Angeles archdiocese to work for the L.A. Unified School...
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Super Bowl falls short of ratings record

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 108.4 million people watched the Super Bowl, making it fall short of setting the fourth straight viewership record.The Nielsen Company said Monday that the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers was the third most-viewed program in television history. Both the 2010 and 2011 games hit the 111 million mark.Football viewership in general declined this...
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Really?: Really? When a Dieter Eats Can Influence Weight Loss

Really?Anahad O’Connor tackles health myths.THE FACTSIn The New England Journal of Medicine last week, a prominent researcher noted that much of the conventional wisdom about weight loss has little basis in science. But his article did not address one oft-asked question: Is your waistline affected by when you eat, or is a calorie always just a calorie whenever you eat it?To seasoned dieters, the claim...
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Southern California gasoline prices soar 23 cents in a week

Expect a bit of a shock if you fill up your gas tanks in Southern California this week.The average price of a gallon of regular...
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Feb
03

L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities

It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May...
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