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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a pillar of the U.S. Senate and Alaska icon who apparently couldn't survive his conviction on federal corruption charges.
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Scott Stafford, Berkshire Eagle Staff
NORTH ADAMS -- Jack Maselli won't be getting out of jail anytime soon.
Maselli, 54, is the man who, after 13 convictions for drunken driving, got so inebriated that he drove headfirst into a car driven by North Adams resident Barbara LaFrance, a 34-year-old mother of two, on April 12, 2002.
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110th Congress starts last session
By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Outgoing and incoming Washington crossed paths on Capitol Hill yesterday, as lawmakers-to-be trod the same pillared hallways as the members of Congress they defeated, the Senate convened without President-elect Barack Obama and a familiar face returned.
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WASHINGTON -- Outgoing and incoming Washington crossed paths on Capitol Hill yesterday, as lawmakers-to-be trod the same pillared hallways as the members of Congress they defeated, the Senate convened without President-elect Barack Obama and a familiar face returned.
"It's good to be back in the Senate," Sen.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Nine members of the Congressional Black Caucus who gathered Monday at Williams College said Barack's Obama election has changed the perception of race nationally -- and people on a local level confirmed it.
"It gives hope for black kids to think they can actually be what they want," Williams College freshman Bill Griffin of Houston, Texas, said
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Nov. 19
50 years ago today
NORTH ADAMS -- Airman Robert Racette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Racette of 114 Reed St., who is home on 10-day furlough, will leave next Monday for Medina Station, near Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, where he will attend a six-month Air Force Security School.
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Banking giant hit by massive losses
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. is shedding approximately 53,000 more employees in the coming quarters as the banking giant struggles to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating debt.
The New York-based bank, which has already reduced its assets by about 20 percent since the first quarter of the year, also
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DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (AP) -- More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and blanketed the region in smoke.
Fires burned in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside and Orange counties, and to the northwest in Santa Barbara
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station on Sunday, kicking off a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live up there beginning next year.
Commander Christopher Ferguson guided the shuttle to a smooth docking as the two spacecraft soared 212 miles above India.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge -- an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates -- could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- So your member of Congress has declared a first-come, first-served policy on handing out hard-to-get tickets to Barack Obama's presidential swearing-in. Sounds fair enough.
But in a town where "yes" can mean "no" and the definition of "is" has been rhetorically spun, "first" does not necessarily mean No.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hardline opponents of an auto industry bailout branded the industry a "dinosaur" whose "day of reckoning" is near, while Democrats pledged Sunday to do their best to get Detroit a slice of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue in this week's lame-duck session of Congress.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.
Boats have long been a barometer of consumer confidence, disposable income and the overall state of
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CHICAGO -- Former President George H.W. Bush famously disliked broccoli. His son, the outgoing president, is a Texas meat-eater. President-elect Barack Obama loves chili and shuns beets.
Obama's aversion to beets aside -- "I always avoid eating them," he says -- the new first family are foodies with a wide-ranging palate.
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NEW YORK -- An increasingly despondent Wall Street fell for the third straight session Wednesday as investors absorbed another series of dismal corporate reports and news that the government won't buy banks' soured mortgage assets after all. The Dow Jones industrials dropped more than 410 points, and all the major indexes lost more than 4 percent.
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