For consumers, the health care bills taking final shape in Congress don't rate close to a perfect 10.
Grieving family members demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.
Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.
A 36-year-old Aiken man is charged with murder after police say he stabbed a friend to death Saturday night.
Iowa and Penn State ended their seasons eligible for an at-large BCS bid, and Oklahoma State and Virginia Tech are also in position to be eligible for invites to the four big-money bowl games even though they have no shot to win their conferences.
Mississippi, California and North Carolina, teams that started the season with lofty expectations before stumbling, have surged back into the AP Top 25 college football poll.
Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him "rock star sex" in an interview for "NBC's People of the Year" TV special.
Michael Jackson's doctor is expected to return to work at his Houston medical clinic for the first time since before the pop star's death.

Thanks to some technical help from the Department of Public Utilities, a day of rain and drizzle didn't deter the festivities as the city of Orangeburg kicked off the Christmas holiday season Sunday with the lighting of Memorial Plaza "by remote" from Stevenson Auditorium.
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What is being called the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday will take place Nov. 27-28 to coincide with the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The first sale in 2008 was so popular the General Assembly authorized another for 2009.
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The city of Orangeburg has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it violated a resident's constitutional free speech rights when it removed a political sign from her Custer Court yard.
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BOWMAN - Two armed robberies and a break-in at a business in town over the past three weeks have prompted the Bowman Police Department to ramp up patrols.
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