MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) — While most everyone wishes they could turn back time, one of the largest corporations in the country is sick of it. Minnesota-based 3M is taking advantage of the end of daylight saving time and removing about 1,000 wall clocks at its 400-acre Maplewood campus. For
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first change to beer alcohol limits since the end of Prohibition is coming to Utah. The state will become the next-to-last in the country to say goodbye to lower-alcohol 3.2% beer on Friday, when drinkers will welcome new, slightly stronger brews to grocery stores, gas
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EVANS, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say a woman who worked in a clerical position at a medical clinic has been arrested for selling fake doctor’s notes to high school students so they can get out of class. 52-year-old Belinda Gail Fondren was charged with filing or maintaining
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KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — All it took for one fugitive in Illinois to turn himself in was a little photo manipulation. WBBM-TV in Chicago reports that the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Department posts notices about fugitives on its Facebook page each Wednesday. This week, the department posted a
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Transportation Security Administration agents at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport uncovered a more decorative than deadly item when they checked a passenger’s carry-on. Agents on Tuesday thought there was a gun in the bag when they put it through the X-ray
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A convicted drug dealer who weighs 750 pounds was sentenced to five years in prison during a hearing that was held in a courthouse loading dock as he lay on a stretcher inside an ambulance. U.S. District Judge David Novak sentenced Kenneth Hicks on Tuesday on federal
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CHICAGO (AP) — It was a real dog of a ceremony this week during a swearing-in at the state’s attorney’s office in Chicago. The newly sworn-in worker is a Labrador retriever named Hatty. The 2-year-old will work on a 9-to-5 human schedule. But she’s being asked to work like a
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RICHWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — An 11-foot python that was on the loose in West Virginia has been found. Richwood Police Chief says a letter carrier saw the snake laying near a roadway Tuesday, about a block away from where it escaped about a month ago. Authorities have been scouring the area trying to
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ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A dog hit by a car in upstate New York rode for 45 minutes wedged between the broken bumper and the grille before the driver realized she was carrying an injured passenger. Coco the shiba inu was being treated for a fractured elbow after being struck Monday morning
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