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Grady board announces finalists for CEO position
Grady Memorial Hospital has moved one step closer to choosing a chief executive officer with the announcement of four finalists on Monday.  Helms never changed on civil rights oppositionJesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
Rare bird vanishing from Everglades
Bioligists say an endangered hawk in the Everglades is getting closer to extinction.
UF fraternity gets four-year suspension for hazing
A University of Florida fraternity has received a four-year suspension for hazing violations.
First floods, now pesky mosquitoes for Midwest
First came the floods - now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest. In some parts of Iowa there are 20 times the normal number, and in Chicago up to five times more than usual.
Miller comes back "home" to Timberwolves
Mike Miller grew into a South Dakota legend while playing his high school games at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, a tiny town of 14,000 near the eastern edge of the state.
Rising tuition threatens Michigan education goals
A reduction in state aid going to Michigan's public universities has helped spark skyrocketing tuition and threatens to undermine the state's efforts to dramatically boost its number of college graduates.
O.J. Simpson vacationing in Minnesota
Former football star O.J. Simpson is spending the week vacationing in Minnesota, getting in some golf and taking a break from the Florida heat ahead of his trial set for September in Las Vegas.
Rays, Marlins play carbon-neutral game
The Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays played what state officials touted as a carbon neutral game Tuesday night, on the eve of an annual global climate summit in South Florida.  Salmonella can ride water into tomatoesPick a tomato in the blazing sun and plunge it straight into cold water. If that happened on the way to market, it might be contaminated. Too big of a temperature difference can make a tomato literally suck water inside the fruit through the scar where its stem used to be. If salmonella happens to be lurking on the skin, that's one way it can penetrate and, if the tomato isn't eaten right away, have time to multiply.
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