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James Smith slides a new plasma television into his truck at a Best Buy store in Richmond Heights, Missouri on November 28, 2008. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A Charlotte, N.C., businessman was sentenced to 18 months probation for hiring prostitutes and writing their services off as business expenses, a court says.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Researchers at the Oklahoma Blood Institute are collecting blood from American Indians to see if a rare genetic marker linked to the Choctaw tribe shows up.
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. study has determined summer thunderstorms become much more intense when they collide with a city than when crossing open countryside.
BAGHDAD, April 7 (UPI) -- Four British military personnel and their interpreter killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq included a close friend of Prince William.
STRANRAER, Scotland, April 3 (UPI) -- Scotland striker Kevin Kyle could be lost to the national team following a brawl that led him to be sentenced Tuesday to 120 hours of community service.
RALEIGH, N.C., March 17 (UPI) -- Ben McCauley had 19 points and 10 rebounds Friday night as N.C. State beat Marist, 69-62, in the second round of the NIT.
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