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UF's Rainey out with injured right knee
SENTINEL STAFF WRITERChris Rainey, Florida's leading rusher and a former standout at Lakeland High, was carted off the field after he suffered an injury during the second quarter of the BCS National Championship Game on Thursday night. Rainey suffered an apparent injury to...Tags: Pete Carroll, Florida Gators, Dolphin Stadium, Football, Florida State University
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Activists launch Web site to deny campaign cash to opponents of public election financing
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Kovacs has contributed to political campaigns since he was a senior in college almost four decades ago. But now he is making a public show of closing his wallet, fed up with Congress' failure to act on pressing issues such as...Tags: Government, National Government, Boston, Richard Durbin, Lobbying
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Biographical information of Marilyn Kelly
------ NAME: Marilyn Kelly AGE: 70 (Born 4-15-38) RESIDENCE: Bloomfield Township NOMINATED BY: Democratic Party EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in French, Eastern Michigan University, 1960; master's degree in French, Middlebury College, 1961; law...Tags: Court Administration, Michigan, Middlebury, Laws, Democratic Party
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Former Michigan State trustee Robert Weiss dies
Genesee County chief probate judge and former Michigan State University trustee Robert E. Weiss has died at age 69. According to a Michigan State release and the Lansing State Journal, Weiss died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack. Weiss was...Tags: Government, Michigan, National Government, Michigan State University
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Lean Ind. budget has few new capital projects
Associated Press WriterGov. Mitch Daniels wants a two-year moratorium on new capital projects funded by Indiana taxpayers -- but the lean budget he proposed does include money for the expansion of two prisons. Daniels says public safety is a high priority and that expanding...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Indianapolis, State Budgets, Republican Party
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Mich. SupCt changes with new justice, new leader
Associated Press WriterThe Michigan Supreme Court was transformed Thursday when a Democrat became the new chief justice, thanks to the arrival of the court's first new judge in nearly a decade. Marilyn Kelly, 70, is the fifth woman to serve as leader of the court since it was...Tags: Philosophy, Prosecution, Government, Court Administration, Defendants
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ESPN won't try to change BCS format
Tribune reporterCollege football's 800-pound gorilla has grown into an 800-ton Godzilla. But even now that ESPN has partnered with the BCS, winning the broadcast rights to every top bowl game from 2011-2014, network officials say they won't try to push college...Tags: Labor Day, Government, Football, National Government, ESPN
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ODU gains commitment from junior-college linebacker
Daily PressLinebacker J.J. Williams, who had 71 tackles last season for Garden City Community College in Kansas, has committed to Old Dominion. He will join the Monarchs when classes resume next week. Their first season begins in the fall of 2009. Williams had...Tags: Kansas, Old Dominion University
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In centuries-old tradition, Congress confirms Obama as the next president
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared Thursday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral college vote from each state. Republicans joined...Tags: Government, California, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Parliament
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ESPN won't push for BCS playoff, executive says
ESPN will not pressure Bowl Championship Series officials into pursuing a playoff in college football when the cable network takes over full control of the broadcast package in 2011. ESPN executive Burke Magnus said Thursday at the annual meeting of...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Football, Corporate Crime, Television Industry, Rose Bowl Game
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Rell Picks Appellate Judge For Supreme Court Post
The Hartford CourantJudge C. Ian McLachlan of the Appellate Court was named Thursday by Gov. M. Jodi Rell to fill a vacancy on the Connecticut Supreme Court. McLachlan, 66, of Chester, would succeed Justice Barry R. Schaller, a Rell appointee who reached the mandatory...Tags: Connecticut, Executive Branch, Government, Court Administration, Stamford
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Tens of thousands gather at Dolphins Stadium in anticipation of BCS title game
South Florida Sun-SentinelUnder sunny skies, and with rising anticipation, tens of thousands of fans gathered on the east side of Dolphins Stadium Thursday afternoon hours before the helmet-thumping showdown between the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma for...Tags: Oklahoma, Petroleum Industry, Gainesville, Road Transportation, Transportation
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