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Ohio resident Vernon Smith, convicted of killing a store clerk in 1993, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday morning, prison officials said.
The housing bubble behind the financial crisis and global economic downturn can be traced, in part, to a 1997 U.S. tax law, a recent study said.
An Episcopal church in Massachusetts whose original building was cobbled together from scrap lumber is marking its 75th anniversary.
Troy Glaus and Alex Rios drove in runs in the 10th inning Monday, boosting Toronto past Detroit, 5-3.
A 19-year-old man wearing a paintball mask and dark cape gunned down two neighbors in their home before killing himself.
Hollis Price scored 24 points and Ebi Ere added 18 as No. 6 Oklahoma extended the nation's longest home winning streak to 33 games Tuesday night with a 75-68 tr
In traditional economic theory Homo oeconomicus, economic man, is rational. The new winners of the Nobel Prize for economics have addressed this problem, bringing some irrationality to the dismal science's view of mankind.

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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch