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Stocks Rally on Boeing, Oil Price Drop

NEW YORK – Stocks rallied on Wednesday as a stronger-than-expected profit from aerospace company Boeing Co. (BA) and a sharp drop in crude oil prices overshadowed Google Inc.’s (GOOG) first earnings shortfall as a public company. Shares of Boeing, a Dow component, climbed 4.9 percent to $71.62 on the New …

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Admin. Recommendations for Hurricane Recovery Due Thursday

WASHINGTON – The White House will make 125 recommendations for how the government could have reacted better to Hurricane Katrina in a report to be released Thursday on the catastrophe and the Bush administration’s response to it. The findings are expected to be critical of the government’s response, but not …

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Mass. Gay Bar Attacker Dies

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. – A teenager suspected in a brutal rampage at a Massachusetts gay bar died Sunday from wounds suffered a day earlier in a shootout with Arkansas police after he fatally shot a police officer who had stopped his car and a woman he had picked up in …

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