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Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s old shows up for sale 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – An Atlanta investment banker is auctioning off more than 15,000 videotaped episodes of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s iconic Christian talk show. “The PTL Club,” which aired from 1974 to 1987, featured Jim Bakker offering upbeat sermons from a couch and Tammy Faye, wearing her…

Sumner Redstone Wins Debt Restructuring Deal, Buys Two Years’ Breathing Room

Tornado Watch #39
Issued/Updated: Feb 28, 2009 at 0142 UTC
Expires: Feb 28, 2009 at 0900 UTC

Tornado Watch #38
Issued/Updated: Feb 27, 2009 at 2203 UTC
Expires: Feb 28, 2009 at 0200 UTC
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NASA rocket failure blow to Earth watching network 
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new satellite to track the chief culprit in global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launch Tuesday, dealing a major setback to NASA’s already weak network for monitoring Earth and its environment from above. The $280 million mission was designed to answer…

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario 
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – If we don’t deal with climate change decisively, “what we’re talking about then is extended world war,” the eminent economist said. His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn’t do much about the…

The New ‘N-Word?’ Nationalization Fuels Fear on Wall St.

Burris’ support in black community begins to waver 
CHICAGO (AP) – A group of black ministers who supported U.S. Sen. Roland Burris as he fought to get his job now plan to ask for his resignation following revelations that he tried to raise money for the disgraced governor who appointed him, one of the ministers told The Associated Press on…

TV stations get ready to cut analog signal    photo
NEW YORK (AP) – In theater superstition, a bad dress rehearsal is supposed to foretell a good opening night. If so, the U.S. might be in good shape when it turns off the last analog TV broadcasts in June, because the lead-up to the smaller-scale turnoff on Tuesday has been confusing to both…