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By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Coca-Cola Co. is trying out mid-calorie versions of its Sprite and Fanta sodas months after competitor PepsiCo Inc. launched its own limited-calorie
By Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — An upgrade appears to be on the horizon for Apple’s iCloud, potentially shifting the service from just syncing your shots to sharing them
By Jeremy C. Owens, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo received an immediate stock bump Monday from the departure of embattled CEO Scott Thompson and a deal that gives
By Judy Thomas, McClatchy Newspapers – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers’ pension and benefit plans, McClatchy Newspapers has learned. The investigation
By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – SANFORD, Fla. — As many eagerly awaited the release of never-before-seen evidence in the case against George Zimmerman, members of special prosecutor Angela
By Elizabeth Crisp, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican lawmakers gathered in a closed-door ceremony to induct conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians Monday, but
By Becky Schlikerman, Carlos Sadovi and Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The last time her family saw Estrella Carrera, she had just gotten married to the father of her youngest child.
By Paul West and Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday intensified a potentially crucial phase of his re-election try: an effort to define Mitt Romney
By Anne Blythe, McClatchy Newspapers – GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two witnesses with a wealth of knowledge about campaign finance laws testified in the John Edwards trial Monday that the $900,000 at the heart
By Rene Stutzman and Henry Pierson Curtis, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The handgun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin is a lightweight, inexpensive 9 mm semiautomatic manufactured in Cocoa,
By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — NBC confirmed Monday that “30 Rock” would end its seven-season run this season with a final 13 episodes. Speaking Monday at his network’s
By Paul Levy, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Eddie Matthew Mosley drove from St. Louis to a Brooklyn Park, Minn., home day care last month, where police said he planned to kill
By Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times – SAN ANTONIO — The next big challenge stands in front of the Los Angeles Clippers, even bigger than winning a Game 7 on the road in