BRIAN CHARLTON

The Associated Press
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Last known WWI veteran honored for Memorial Day

Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American-born veteran of World War I, was honored Sunday at the Liberty Memorial during Memorial Day weekend celebrations.

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Man, woman indicted in sale of child for sex acts

Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.

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Retailers can use DNA tracing to track meat

Meat retailers can now trace their wares from the ranch to the refrigerator case using DNA analysis.

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Sprint Nextel silent on report of DT mulling bid

Sprint Nextel Corp. was silent about its future Monday as reports emerged that the company was considering spinning off or selling Nextel and that Deutsche Telekom AG was investigating a bid to buy the struggling wireless provider.

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Rate Your Fitness Routine With GPS

After a race through 15 miles of rock-laden, hilly trails in Wyandotte County Lake Park, Byron Rieper went online to discuss the competition with other runners.

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Coroner: Pregnant Mom Fought Attacker

A pregnant woman whose baby was crudely cut from her womb tried to defend herself from her attacker before she was strangled, a medical examiner testified Friday.

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Trump Hawaii Condos Sell Out for $700M

Celebrities and investors forked over $700 million in just a few hours to buy up more than 460 suites in Donald Trump's luxury hotel-condominium project in Waikiki.

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La-Z-Boy Aims to Return to Profitability

Sales are down and industry outlooks are bleak, but La-Z-Boy Inc. executives say they're not going to take it lying down. The furniture maker is drastically restructuring in an effort to return the brand to profitability and convince shoppers it makes more than clunky recliners.

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Online Music Holdouts Give in to ITunes

Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store.

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Judge Issues Warrant for Tigers' Young

An arrest warrant for Dmitri Young was issued Tuesday after the Detroit Tigers designated hitter failed to appear for a pretrial hearing on a domestic violence charge.

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FBI Comes Up Empty in Search for Hoffa

The FBI said Tuesday it found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm in one of the most intensive searches in decades for the former Teamsters boss.

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Agents Turn to Shovels in Search for Hoffa

Searchers turned to using shovels Sunday as they resumed digging in an area of a horse farm where FBI agents think former Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa might be buried.

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Mich. Township Has Fun in Search for Hoffa

As FBI agents search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains, businesses are relishing in their newfound notoriety, peddling everything from T-shirts to a Hoffa Steak Salad "buried under field greens with mushrooms and edible flowers."

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