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Vegas Considers Selling Booze at the Baggage Claim

12 hours 30 minutes ago |AOL News

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LAS VEGAS (March 15) -- Cities and states across America are adding or expanding casino gambling to raise revenues in these tough times, but that's one well Las Vegas can't really drill any deeper. B ...

US Consulate Victims in Mexico 'Targeted,' FBI Says

11 hours 11 minutes ago |AOL News

El Paso Times

WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate slain in the violent Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday were not victims of a drive-by shooting as first reported, the FBI ...

Rielle Hunter Breaks Silence on Edwards Affair

19 hours 49 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- After years of scandal and speculation, John Edwards' infamous other woman, Rielle Hunter, is telling her story for the first time in an interview with GQ magazine, revealing the secret ...

Health Care Debate Enters Final Stage

11 hours 37 minutes ago |AOL News

WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Declaring that "every proposal has been put on the table, every argument has been made," President Barack Obama made a last-ditch appeal Monday for his health care reform pla ...

CSI: Bacteria, Thanks to Unique 'Germ Signatures'

9 hours 6 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 15) -- The colonies of bacteria that inhabit your own skin are unique, which means everything you touch carries a telltale trace of the germs that thrive on your fingertips. That discovery cou ...

Toyota Fights 'Runaway Prius' Claim

11 hours 39 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- After months of apologizing, Toyota is fighting back. Top U.S. executives for the embattled automaker convened a televised press briefing today to dispute the claim of a California man ...

Girding for the Wall Street Vs. Main Street Fight

15 hours 53 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- Shielding Americans from shady credit card fees, protecting taxpayers from financial bailouts, saving banks from becoming "too big to fail," policing hedge funds, and safeguarding the c ...

Man Who Posed as Hero Marine Is Sentenced

12 hours 26 minutes ago |AOL News

U.S. Attorney's Office

SAN FRANCISCO (March 15) -- A Palm Springs bank employee who posed as a highly decorated Marine lieutenant colonel at his high school reunion was sentenced today to a year of probation and ordered to ...

America's Solid Credit Rating Gets Shaken

13 hours 24 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- Could the federal balance sheet become so strained that the U.S. can't pay its debts? The short answer is not now or anytime soon. But a quarterly look at the government's financial sit ...

Peeping Tom Gets Prison for Erin Andrews Nude Video

11 hours 13 minutes ago |AP

LOS ANGELES (March 15) - An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in prison before giving a tearful apology ...

Pakistan Returns Free Helicopters to US

10 hours 33 minutes ago |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Less than a year ago, the United States rushed four Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters to Pakistan after an urgent request from the country's senior leadership. Now those helico ...

Ohio Woman Is Youngest to Cross the Atlantic Alone

17 hours 39 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 15) -- The Atlantic Ocean is no match for Katie Spotz. The 22-year-old woman became the youngest person to make the trip across the Atlantic alone in a rowboat. After 70 days at sea, hundreds ...