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Coke moves secret formula
ATLANTA ( AP) — The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925. The world’s largest beverage maker said Thursday a new vault containing the formula will be on […]
BRIEFS
Motive still unknown in Va. Tech shooting BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Tech police officer who was gunned down in a campus attack joined the force six months after the university was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U. S. history. He was a proud policeman who recently invited a friend […]
The Union moves to enforce its blockade
President Abraham Lincoln announced a blockade of Southern seaports months earlier in 1861. Enforcing it is another matter, requiring many more Union warships to police thousands of miles of coast against gunrunners and profiteers aiming to supply the less industrialized South with arms, weapons and troop supplies. The Associated Press reports in early December that […]
Doolittle’s raid electrifies a world at war
NEW ORLEANS Almost 70 years after the United States struck Japan in a bold bombing raid that did little damage but lifted the spirits of a Pearl Harborweary nation, Thomas Griffin relishes the role he played that day as a navigator in one of Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25s. “It was risky, but we all wanted to […]
Home burns as firefighters do nothing
SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee couple has lost everything after their home burned to the ground as firefighters watched and did nothing. Vicky Bell told WPSD-TV that she called 911 when her mobile home in Obion County caught fire. Firefighters responded but did not put out the blaze because she does not subscribe […]
Getting someone’s attention without trying … by crying
A s I stood by the side of the road next to the police cruiser, still crying and now wondering if my father was at all concerned that I had basically hung up on him abruptly after saying “I’ve got to go dad, there’s a cop,” I could not tell if things had just gotten […]
Baldwin apologizes to passengers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin issued an apology Wednesday to fellow passengers on an American Airlines flight that was delayed by his refusal to stop playing a cellphone game — but stopped short of apologizing to the airline or the flight attendant he later mocked on Twitter. The “30 Rock” actor’s note, posted to […]
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