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Poll Congress approval rating just 16 percent
According to a new national poll, just 16 percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, with 83 percent of those questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey saying they disapprove. The poll was released ...
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Pioneer League set to open Thursday
Osprey snare league title The Billings Mustangs have been a Minor League franchise since 1948, but the 2013 campaign is particularly significant because it marks an important milestone in what has been the team's most prosperous era. This season is the 40th anniversary of Billings' affiliation with the Cincinnati Reds and is a continuation of one of the longest-standing partnerships ...
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Appalachian League ready to get under way
Gear up for the new season After a brief hiatus, the Elizabethton Twins are back in a familiar role -- reigning champions. Ray Smith has been Elizabethton's manager since 1987, directing the team to eight Appy League titles. Until last September, the Twins had been without a championship since 2008, a three-year gap that marked their longest drought since the ...
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Dates set for the Umpire Schools 2014 session
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Umpire School™ (TUS) announced today that the dates for its next four-week session will be Jan. 5 - Feb. 2, 2014, at the Vero Beach Sports Village in Vero Beach, Fla. TUS also recently secured an M-1 classification from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security to allow it to accept students from outside the United States. ...
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Library closures services reductions among budget proposals for OPL
In response to a mayoral request to plan for budget reductions for the remainder of 2013 and all of 2014, the Omaha Public Library Board has drawn up several budget reduction scenarios, including library closures and reduced ...
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Chrysler relents agrees to recall 2.7 million Jeeps
Chrysler Group reversed course and agreed to a recall of 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday, giving in to the government's request in the final hours before a ...
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No E-Twins injured in fatal bus crash
Elizabethton Twins north from extended spring training was involved in a fatal crash Tuesday morning, the Florida Times-Union and St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. The driver of a black Honda was traveling south in a northbound lane of Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla. around 4:25 a.m. when it collided head-on with the Twins' bus. The driver of the car was declared dead at the scene, ...
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Feds Spying foiled Wall St. subway terror plots
Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 worldwide thwarted by top-secret surveillance programs since the 2011 al Qaeda attacks on the United States, authorities said on ...
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Victims girlfriend details first of several weekend shootings
A 33-year-old woman said she was questioned for 12 hours as part of an investigating into a weekend shooting spree before police arrested her on an unrelated drug ...
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Lincoln City Council OKs entertainment district
It will be situated across the street from the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in the West Haymarket area. Officials say it is modeled after the Power & Light District in Kansas City, Mo., and likely will begin operation in September or October. The new district's outdoor portion will include the courtyard for the Railyard development on the east side of Canopy Street and an interior courtyard ...
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Man takes Oxycodone in pharmacy robbery
Officers were called to the CVS at 48th and Dodge streets around 8:30 a.m. There, officers learned that a white man, wearing all gray, entered the pharmacy and demanded Oxycodone. He then jumped over the counter and showed that he had a gun, police said. The man left the scene on foot with an undetermined amount of Oxycodone. Anyone with information on the case should call a detective at ...
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Woman reports assault outside Jazzercise class
Omaha police officers were called the scene near 120th and West Center Road just before 7 a.m. to investigate. The 53-year-old woman told officers that she was leaving her Jazzercise class when she encountered a man near the building entrance who appeared to be touching himself. He grabbed her by the shoulders as she was walking to her car, she told police She said she struggled with the man and ...
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Officials disclose thwarted terror plots
Plots to bomb the New York subway system and the New York Stock Exchange were among more than 50 stopped by secret surveillance programs, the director of the National Security Agency and other officials disclosed ...
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USA Baseball to Host Cuba at Werner Park July 19 and 20
- USA Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation announced today that their Collegiate National Team programs will compete for the second consecutive year in an international friendship series. Last year, the two countries resumed friendship series play at the collegiate level after a 16-year hiatus, with Team USA traveling to Havana for a five-game series - the host nation won the series, 3-2. ...
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Promo Preview B-Mets spread holiday cheer
Minor League teams are known for the creativity of their gameday promotions. On Tuesdays this season, we preview 10 of the most intriguing for the week ahead. If you'd like a particular promotion to be considered for this feature in the future, please send it ...
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FBI says surveillance thwarted NY terror plots
The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that he will provide details of two previously classified cases in which secret surveillance programs thwarted terrorist ...
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Secretary of defense coming to Omaha
The Pentagon said Hagel will give a speech at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Nebraska Omaha -- his alma mater -- on the challenges the Department of Defense is ...
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Perfect scores for Nebraska state veterans homes
Nebraska's four state-run veterans homes have received perfect scores on their most recent annual Health Care System Surveys from the U.S. Department of Veterans ...
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Proposal would cut endangered beetle habitat
A federal agency has proposed a nearly 50 percent cut in the Nebraska land the agency says is needed to support the endangered Salt Creek tiger ...
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Smokies Hendricks making Cubs look smart
was considered the lesser of the two prospects received by the Chicago Cubs from Texas in the trade of veteran starter Ryan Dempster. Nearly one year later, though, it is Hendricks -- not Smokies third ...
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Rockies Bettis stay loose for Drillers
hasn't pitched much this season, but the Tulsa Drillers right-hander and Colorado Rockies prospect still helps out wherever he can. He's even willing to run out and wrangle a tiger if that's what the team needs. Bettis, a second-round pick out of Texas Tech in 2010, is on the verge of returning after being sidelined since mid May with shoulder trouble. He pitched a simulated ...
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B-Mets deGrom acclimating to Double-A
had just finished throwing a bullpen session with St. Lucie in April when he learned he was being sent to Double-A Binghamton. Only two starts into his season, he took the news in stride. "I don't think I was really surprised," said deGrom, who began this season as the No. 12 prospect in the Mets system. "I had played at St. Lucie at the end of last year." The former ...
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Man stabbed with garden trowel in Council Bluffs
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) -- A 21-year-old Council Bluffs man is expected to recover from injuries suffered when he was stabbed with a garden ...
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Hope in Afghanistan amid handover diplomacy
Afghan forces formally took over security responsibilities for their violence-plagued country from NATO-led troops on Tuesday, marking a key transition in the long and costly war. President Hamid Karzai also announced that a government group dedicated to Afghan peace and reconciliation will go to the Gulf state of Qatar and participate in talks with the Taliban militant group -- long the ...
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Chrysler faces deadline to recall Jeeps
Chrysler Group will formally respond Tuesday to the government's request for a recall of 2.7 million Jeeps that safety officials say pose too great a risk of fire in a rear-end ...
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Omaha makes move to develop Midtown
TIFs have their critics, but the progress thus far seems to show that incremental tax financing may work in Midtown Omaha and provide the investment that some pockets of the neighborhood need to revitalize the area.
Omaha is the commercial and transport hub of Nebraska, it is the state’s largest city and is the home to five fortune 500 companies and has been named by Forbes as the “Best Bang-For-The-Buck” city in the US and one of those leading the country’s recovery. Read more
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