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Photos: Newark mayor Cory Booker on saving neighbor from fire
Cory Booker’s national profile — already considerable for a Garden State local official — received an enormous boost Friday as news spread that the media-savvy Newark mayor had rescued a neighbor from her burning house the night before.
The story had all the hallmarks of a great [...]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—George Lindsey, who made a TV career as a grinning service station attendant named Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw,” has died. He was 83.
The Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness.
Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1964 [...]

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Louisville, Ky.— the party started early on the raucous Churchill Downs infield for Joe Ochsner, who was sipping a morning beer and picking his horses for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. Thrifty travel plans freed up more cash for drinking and betting.
Ochsner, who skipped the Derby during the deep economic downturn, got together with four friends to [...]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — the Los Angeles Dodgers turned a bizarre triple play in the top of the ninth inning, then Dee Gordon singled home the winning run in the bottom half for a 5-4 win over the San Diego Padres on Sunday and a three-game sweep.
Braves 7, Brewers 4
Chipper Jones hit a [...]

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— OKLAHOMA CITY   — Kevin Durant scored 25 points and hit the game-winning jumper from the foul line with 1.5 seconds left to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 99-98 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. Durant maneuvered to the free throw [...]

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NEW YORK —
Andrew Luck knew exactly where he was heading and the daunting task he faces.
So did Robert Griffin III.
What the NFL draft lacked in surprise and suspense with its top two picks, it certainly delivered in challenges for the league’s newest stars.
Luck, the Stanford quarterback and overall No. 1, heads for Indianapolis where he must [...]

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Rangers 11, Mariners 5
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Yu Darvish overcome a rocky start and got a big boost from the powerful Texas lineup, winning his much-anticipated major league debut in the Rangers’ 11-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.
After giving up four runs while throwing 42 pitches in the first inning, then allowing [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make “60 Minutes” the most distinctive news show on television have died.
First it was Andy Rooney, the cantankerous commentator who died last November, a month after delivering the last of his show-closing essays. Late Saturday night, it was Mike [...]

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“it always helps to have the first money in when you’re raising money from professional investors,” he said.
In fact, it may soon be much easier for start-ups to raise money and go public in a number of ways. The Senate version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act cleared the House of Representatives last week [...]

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According to sources in Portugal, Porto are now prepared to re-negotiate Hulk’s contract and sell the 25-year-old international this summer for significantly less than the €100 million (£85million) release fee.
Up until recently Porto have insisted that the release clause had to be met in full — even if an offer of €99m euros was [...]

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