Kansas legislature sends $14.3 billion budget to governor

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Kansas legislature sends .3 billion budget to governor
Legislators capped the last day by passing a $ 14.3 billion budget that added more money for schools but didn't move forward Gov. Sam Brownback's plan for overhauling the school finance formula. The session was marked by a bitterly divided Legislature …
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Tough GOP Budget Talk
Democrats and the White House have given Boehner's talk the back of the hand in recent days, all but ridiculing his suggestion that only budget cuts be used to offset the next debt limit increase, which many expect after the November elections.
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Lastest Tempest On Tour News

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'The House at Pooh Corner' Appeals to All Ages
Still, this year's choice of 'The House at Pooh Corner' as the high school's touring production has to have wider appeal for the younger crowd. "'The Tempest' was a little bit of audacity — to bring Shakespeare to elementary," Miller said.
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Solo act: Alternate makes delayed entry at The Players
It was a curious path for the PGA Tour rookie, who found himself in the middle of a tempest when back spasms prompted DA Points to withdraw at literally the very last second. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little shook up by what had happened this …
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Taking Names: Jackson's costumes to be exhibited, then sold
2 after an international tour. They are by his longtime designers Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush. (Julien's Auctions via Associated Press) Michael Jackson's glittery gloves, spangled jackets, stage-worn costumes and personal fashion effects are going …
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Lastest Asma Al-Assad News

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A look at Syria's first lady
The British-educated Asma al-Assad is being petitioned by a group of UN Diplomats' wives to “stop being a bystander” to the violence in Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, is seen during a meeting in Paris.
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Vogue Scrubs Flattering Profile Of Syrian First Lady Asma Al-Assad
Vogue Scrubs Flattering Profile Of Syrian First Lady Asma Al-Assad | Vogue's controversial profile of Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad has been scrubbed from the Vogue website. The profile, “A Rose In The Desert,” described Asma al-Assad as “glamorous, …
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Fact File: Syria
Source: Reuters £2650 – Price-tag of a vase Asma al-Assad ordered from Harrods in June 2011. Source: The Guardian 24324 – Number of Syrian refugees in Turkey in April 2012. Source: The Daily Beast $ 4.7bn – Value of Russian arms deals with Syria, …
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Pauline Pearce aka “The Hackney Heroine” [Audio]

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Pauline Pearce aka “The Hackney Heroine” [Audio]
Pauline Pearce, aka the Hackney Heroine, gives Eastlondonlines an interview ahead of the by-election this Thursday in which she is standing as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats. Pearce shot to fame last summer when she was filmed berating rioters …
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Pauline and Tim help launch campaign for more foster carers in Portsmouth
Pauline Pearce is the council's foster care recruitment manager and said there is a national shortage of foster carers. 'You really need to place children with the right carers,' she said. 'So it's important to have a diverse mix.
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London mayoral election live blog – police and crime Q&A
Joining us to debate policing in the capital from 1pm to 2pm are: • Pauline Pearce, the so-called "Hackney heroine" who berated rioters last summer and is now a Lib Dem candidate for Hackney council. • Leon Fearon, who memorably took Boris Johnson to …
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King of Soho Paul Raymond wasn't a porn baron, says his son Howard

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King of Soho Paul Raymond wasn't a porn baron, says his son Howard
His dad was Paul Raymond, the man dubbed with the tabloid title King of Soho, who had risen from working class Liverpool roots to amass a huge publishing and property empire. Howard and his sister Debbie were Raymond's two children by first wife Jean; …
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Porn Publisher Paul Raymond Subject of Two Biopics
By Nelson Ayala, XBIZ.com LONDON — Paul Raymond, the late real estate mogul and adult entertainment maverick who founded London's first fully nude strip club, The Raymond Revuebar, and launched publications Club International and Mayfair, …
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Russian court sentences militant to 10 years prison

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Russian court sentences militant to 10 years prison
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A woman convicted of planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack during 2010 New Year's Eve celebrations in Moscow's Red Square has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, Russian investigators said on Friday. The plot was foiled after …
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New Jersey HeraldAP News in Brief at 5:58 pm EDT
"Thousands of thoughts are surging to my mind," Chen said at the airport. His concerns, he said, included whether authorities would retaliate for his negotiated departure by punishing his relatives left behind. It also is unclear whether the government …
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Chemical sends 5 from Fla airport to hospital
A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said. A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain …
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The Global Note: Bombmaking in Yemen…Occupy Moscow…Best & Worst Places To Be …
-THE BOMB…At the FBI's explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb – trying to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. As the AP writes, …
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Lastest O · News

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Brian O'Driscoll – 'I know this team will be hungry for more'
Brian O'Driscoll believes Leinster are building a dynasty after they won a record-breaking third Heineken Cup title in four years when they beat Ulster 42-14 in the all-Ireland final at Twickenham. First-half tries by Sean O'Brien and Cian Healy put …
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O'Neill is enjoying the ride
BALTIMORE – No one is loving the run-up to Saturday's Preakness more than Doug O'Neill. The trainer of Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another has spent nearly two weeks in Baltimore, hanging with Ravens coach John Harbaugh, throwing out the first ball …
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Road-streaking O's seek series win over Nationals
The Baltimore Orioles will try to secure their first series victory at Washington in three years as they play the middle contest of a three-game set tonight with the Nationals. The Orioles had lost five of their past seven on the road in this Beltway …
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Leading Hotels welcomes new members in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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Leading Hotels welcomes new members in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Following an extensive rebuild, the Oyster Box just outside Durban, South Africa, re-opened in 2009. Constructed in 1869 and originally used as navigational beacon, a beach cottage known as the Oyster Box was converted into a hotel in the 1930's.
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Remnants of Haiti's army march in the capital

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Remnants of Haiti's army march in the capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Hundreds of former and would-be soldiers in Haiti refused government orders to disband and marched through the capital on Friday, a show of force that culminated in the evening with a tense exchange of gunfire with police outside …
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Sean Penn holds Haiti fundraiser at Cannes
Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country. It was the first time the festival has used its glitzy, global spotlight to attract attention …
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Trip to Haiti a lasting experience for Pitt athletes
Pitt football players Andrew Taglianetti and Mark Giubilato talk about their aid trip to Haiti. Pitt athletes from the soccer, football and wrestling teams pose for a photo with four boys during their relief trip to Haiti. By Sam Werner / Pittsburgh …
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Clemens Needle Mixed With Others in Beer Can, Witness Says

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Clemens Needle Mixed With Others in Beer Can, Witness Says
Mitchell Report Former Senator George Mitchell, acting as a special investigator for Major League Baseball, released a report on steroid use among professional ballplayers on Dec. 13, 2007. Mitchell concluded Clemens used drugs on at least 16 occasions …
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Grueling day for Brian McNamee
George Mitchell. Whether the jurors were still keeping track is another matter: They again expressed concern about the agonizingly slow pace of a trial that still has weeks to go, and the judge opined that Clemens's lawyer was “confusing everybody.
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Astronomy Student Wins 000 Mitchell Student Grand Prize Award for Academic …
AUSTIN, Texas — George Miller, astronomy senior and Dean's Scholar in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the $ 20000 grand prize in the University Co-operative Society's George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic …
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