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Monday, November 02, 2009

Technology

Google's Voice Is Silent In Some Rural Areas

Josh Nelson stands in the computer room at his company's offices

November 2, 2009 Google Voice, the phone management service offered by Google, is blocking customers' calls to about 100 phone numbers that were generating excessive long distance fees in the Midwest. Lawmakers and AT&T have cried foul, and the dispute is renewing focus on a controversial practice that lets some phone companies charge inflated fees.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Sports

USOC Under Fire For Olympic-Sized Missteps

Stephanie Streeter, acting CEO of the USOC, has announced she is stepping down

October 26, 2009 Three weeks after Chicago's first-round rejection in the bidding for the 2016 Summer Games, Olympic athletes and sports executives are demanding major change in the U.S. Olympic Committee. At stake, some say, is support for American athletes and the quest to host Olympic Games in the United States.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

History

Mystery Endures: Remains Found Not Those Of Artist

"Granite and Cypress" by Everett Ruess

October 24, 2009 Everett Ruess, a legendary Utah explorer, writer and artist, has been missing for 75 years. Earlier this year, it seemed the cold case had been solved when human remains found in the Utah desert apparently tested positive as his. But doubts lingered, and now the mystery of the missing artist lives again.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Sports

U.S. Olympic Committee Chief Resigns

Stephanie Streeter

October 7, 2009 The acting CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee has stepped down five days after Chicago's stunning first-round elimination in the bidding for the 2016 Olympics. Stephanie Streeter took the helm of the USOC just seven months ago; she was the group's fifth CEO in nine years.

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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Analysis

Why Chicago Failed To Win The Olympics

Chicago 2016 supporters react as they learn the city has lost its bid to host the Olympics.

October 3, 2009 The Windy City's political talents were offset by new rules meant to protect International Olympic Committee voters from the sort of influence peddling that might have worked in the past.

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Friday, October 02, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009

Law

Elizabeth Smart Describes Ordeal Of Rape, Abuse

Elizabeth Smart leaves the courthouse with her mother.

October 1, 2009 Six years after being rescued, 21-year-old Elizabeth Smart for the first time publicly described the nine months in which she says she was held as a plural wife and sexually assaulted by Brian David Mitchell. The itinerant preacher has been declared mentally incompetent by a state court.

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Sports

Olympic Caveats: Host Cities Risk Debt, Scandal

Limmie McMiller stands with demonstrators outside City Hall to protest Chicago's bid to get the 2016

October 1, 2009 The Obama administration says Chicago winning its bid for the 2016 Olympics would be good for the city's economy. The same argument has been made by many Olympic bidders — but the proof is sketchy.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Law

Prosecutor: Let Elizabeth Smart Speak

Elizabeth Smart's accused kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell

September 25, 2009 Prosecutors asked a federal judge to allow Smart to testify in the competency hearing of the itinerant street preacher who allegedly forced her at knife point from her bedroom in 2002 and held her for nine months as a second wife. Ed Smart says his daughter's testimony will help show Brian David Mitchell is sane.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Sports

Bad Boy Skier Bode Miller Set To Return To Slopes

Skier Bode Miller

September 24, 2009 Bode Miller announced his skiing and Olympic plans at a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. Miller quit the U.S. Ski Team two years ago and formed his own ski training team.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Law

Elizabeth Smart May Face Alleged Abductor In Court

September 18, 2009 Smart is scheduled to testify Oct. 1 at a federal competency hearing in the case of street preacher David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping her from her Salt Lake City home when she was 14.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Law

Mother, Daughter Get Probation In Artifacts Theft

September 16, 2009 A federal judge in Utah will not send Jeanne Redd, 59, and Jericca Redd, 37, to prison for digging up and trafficking in ancient American Indian artifacts from federal and Indian land. They instead received probation in the first guilty pleas resulting from a two-year federal sting targeting an artifacts black market.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Business

U.S. Ski Champs Sell Sweet Smells Of Success

Shannon Bahrke  jumps with her tongue out in the women's World Cup Freestyle moguls.

September 11, 2009 Shannon Bahrke and Michelle Roark are turning heads at the U.S. Olympic Media Summit in Chicago. The moguls ski champs aim to be business moguls off the slopes: Bahrke is taking a turn at coffee-roasting, while Roark is turning out "Phi-nomenal" perfumes.

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Sports

Report Questions Finances Of Chicago's Olympic Bid

Patrick Ryan

September 2, 2009 An International Olympic Committee report released Wednesday boils Chicago's drive for the 2016 Summer Olympics down to a simple and familiar point: Show us the money.

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

U.S.

U.S. Alert Level Raised Amid Calif., Utah Blazes

Fire map

September 1, 2009 With thousands of homes threatened in six states, the nation's wildfire response system has kicked into a higher level of alert and preparedness — even though it has been a relatively mild year for the blazes.

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