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Avon, Mary Kay ranks boom as a second-job option

Armies of new Avon ladies, Mary Kay reps and Tupperware sellers are advancing on living rooms across the country, their ranks full of professionals forced to take a second job amid the recession.

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'English First' proposal defeated in Nashville

Nashville voters rejected a proposal to make English the mandatory language for all government business, easing fears that the measure could damage the city's reputation and cost agencies millions in federal funding.

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Many states' lottery sales are rising in recession

Even in these tough economic times, many people are feeling lucky.

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Tenn. professor sues Germany for Nazi art seizure

An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II.

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Police release 5 held after Ky. campus gun scare

Police at Western Kentucky University say they have released five students held for questioning after unconfirmed reports of gunfire forced a campus lockdown.

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Ky. campus lockdown ends; no evidence of gunfire

Western Kentucky University was locked down for about three hours Wednesday after reports of gunmen on campus, but officials said they could find no evidence that shots had been fired or that anyone had a weapon.

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Televangelist's ex-husband seeks new wife on Web

The ex-husband of national televangelist Juanita Bynum, who divorced after a parking lot fight between the two landed him in jail, plans to take his search for a new wife to the Internet with videos featuring dating tips and what he's looking for in a mate.

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Ga. town's scarecrows h(a)unting for world record

This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.

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Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit

Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

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Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot

Two men claim they've bagged Bigfoot, and they say the have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to see the man-ape.

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Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot

Two men claim they've bagged Bigfoot, and they say the have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.

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Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot

Two men claim they've bagged Bigfoot, and they say the have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.

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Deputy hurt, suspect dead in Ga. standoff

A suspect was shot to death and a sheriff's deputy injured after an hour-long standoff near an elementary school in north Georgia Monday, authorities said.

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Lousy economy threatens states' sales tax holidays

Thousands of shoppers have been flocking to malls in more than a dozen states for back-to-school sales tax holidays, buying millions of dollars worth of clothes and school supplies — and depriving states of much-needed revenue.

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