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Vt. Nuclear Plant Shutdown A Sign Of Changing Energy Market

6:31pm August 27, 2013

by John Dillon

The owner of Vermont's only nuclear plant says it will shut down the facility next year. Entergy had just won a lengthy battle with the state over whether the plant could keep operating. Now the company says market forces and other issues mean the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant isn't profitable.

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Liens By 'Sovereign Citizens' A Headache For State Officials

5:30pm August 27, 2013

Robert Siegel talks to Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale, who has led the charge against sovereign citizen fraudulent liens and is an advocate for helping victims of the liens. He managed to get state legislation passed against it.

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Clarence B. Jones this month in Palo Alto, Calif. As Martin Luther King Jr.'s attorney and adviser, Jones contributed to many of King's speeches, including his famous speech at the March on Washington in 1963.

National

Clarence B. Jones: A Guiding Hand Behind 'I Have A Dream'

4:59pm August 27, 2013

by Michele Norris

Clarence Jones played an integral but mostly unseen role in the 1963 March on Washington. As Martin Luther King Jr.'s legal adviser, Jones assisted in drafting King's landmark speech, and drew from a recent event in Birmingham, Ala., to craft one of the speech's signature lines.

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Unlike cigarettes, cigarillos can be bought individually or in small packages.

Sweet Cigarillos And Cigars Lure Youths To Tobacco, Critics Say

2:56pm August 27, 2013

by Patti Neighmond

The flavors may be sweet, but it's still tobacco. That's why tobacco control advocates are trying to restrict sales of candy- and fruit-flavored tobacco products, which they say lure in teenagers.

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An irrigation pivot waters a corn field in Nebraska. Many farmers in Nebraska and Kansas rely on irrigation to water their corn fields. But the underground aquifer they draw from will run dry.

Turning Off The Spigot In Western Kansas Farmland

2:49pm August 27, 2013

by Dan Charles

If Kansas farmers keep pumping water out of the High Plains aquifer as they have in the past, the amount of water they can extract will start to fall in just 10 years or so, scientists predict. That will cause big changes in the agricultural economy. But reducing water use now could help delay and ease that disruption.

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Cafe Customers Complain About Early Christmas Music

6:52am August 27, 2013

Shoppers always complain the Christmas season begins earlier every year. And this year, those lunching at Pret A Manger cafes in New York City were treated to Christmas carols starting last week. Only the location in Rockefeller Center managed to override the apparently mistaken holiday tunes coming from corporate headquarters.

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Sports

USA Swimming To Review Sexual Misconduct Prevention Program

5:13am August 27, 2013

by Tom Goldman

The governing body of U.S. competitive swimming announced an independent review of its program to protect athletes from sexual abuse. There are new questions, some from Congress, about whether swimming has effectively confronted an abuse problem revealed in recent years.

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Marion Matthew is a home health aide supporting herself and her 17-year-old son.

Economy

A College Kid, A Single Mom, And The Problem With The Poverty Line

5:02am August 27, 2013

by Pam Fessler

A college student getting help from his parents may be below the poverty line. The mother who earns $23,000 a year is not.

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Economy

Residents Of Hot Weather States Sweat Air Conditioning Bills

5:02am August 27, 2013

by Jude Joffe-Block

As the number of Americans living in Sunbelt states grows, air conditioning is increasingly becoming a necessity — not a luxury — for a larger swath of the population. Yet the main federal energy assistance program uses a formula that favors cold weather states for heating help over hot weather states that need cooling help.

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U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ty Michael Carter near Dahla Dam, Afghanistan in July 2012.

Pain, Loss And Tears Come With Medal Of Honor

4:04pm August 26, 2013

by Doreen McCallister

Staff Sergeant Ty Michael Carter received the nation's highest military honor. He feels privileged, but says "I would never tell any soldier or service member, 'Hey, go out and get the Medal of Honor', because of the amount of pain and loss and tears that has to be shed in order to receive it."

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