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  • Series of Holland Budget Hearings Begins

    (Holland, MI - WHTC News) - More opportunities for the public to give their input on Holland’s budget-making process begin tonight. This evening in chambers at City Hall, the first of three scheduled hearings is scheduled, as Mayor Kurt Dykstra, his fellow council members, and senior ... More

  • Two Other Local Lawmakers Join Bridge Card Reform Effort

    (Lansing, MI - WHTC News) - A quest by Dave Agema is gathering some steam in the State House. The outspoken Republican from Grandville is one of six lawmakers who have sponsored a package of bills aimed at reforming what they say is waste, fraud and abuse ... More

  • Lakeshore Lawmaker Wants Subpoena Power for Probe

    (Lansing, MI - WHTC News) - It’s another battle in the ongoing and apparently never-ending war between the Legislative and Executive branches of government. The state House Appropriations Committee is looking into why the Michigan Based Home Child Care Council is still operating after it was ... More

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  • Two Other Local Lawmakers Join Bridge Card Reform Effort

    (Lansing, MI - WHTC News) - A quest by Dave Agema is gathering some steam in the State House. The outspoken Republican from Grandville is one of six lawmakers who have sponsored a package of bills aimed at reforming what they say is waste, fraud and abuse ... More

  • Lakeshore Lawmaker Wants Subpoena Power for Probe

    (Lansing, MI - WHTC News) - It’s another battle in the ongoing and apparently never-ending war between the Legislative and Executive branches of government. The state House Appropriations Committee is looking into why the Michigan Based Home Child Care Council is still operating after it was ... More

  • Study: Term Limits Don't Work

    (Detroit, MI)  --  A new study by Wayne State University shows term limits are not working in Michigan.  The research indicates limiting the amount of time lawmakers can serve in Lansing has resulted in a loss of expertise in the state Legislature and an erosion of ... More

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  • "JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Colleen LaRose, who also went by the pseudonym of ... More

  • Corey Haim dies of overdose

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said on Wednesday. He was 38. Haim, who rose to ... More

  • Kobe sinks Raptors as Lakers end losing run

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant delivered yet another game-winning shot to help the Los Angeles Lakers snap a three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday. Bryant netted 32 points and made a fade-away 17-foot jump shot along the baseline ... More

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  • "JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Colleen LaRose, who also went by the pseudonym of ... More

  • Obama effect boosts Nobel Peace Prize nominations

    OSLO (Reuters) - A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday. The world's media focused on the Peace Prize after Obama was ... More

  • Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan

    KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout. Ahmadinejad, who arrived as Gates was wrapping up a three-day visit, told a ... More

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  • House to vote on pullout from Afghanistan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war. The resolution by liberal Democratic Representative ... More

  • Sebelius piles pressure on insurers

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ratcheted up the pressure on health insurance companies on Wednesday, urging them to forgo short-term profits and stop fighting President Barack Obama's health reform plans. "You can choose to take the millions of dollars you have stored away ... More

  • Two Other Local Lawmakers Join Bridge Card Reform Effort

    (Lansing, MI - WHTC News) - A quest by Dave Agema is gathering some steam in the State House. The outspoken Republican from Grandville is one of six lawmakers who have sponsored a package of bills aimed at reforming what they say is waste, fraud and abuse ... More

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  • Citi, AIG, other bailed-out firms jump

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares in Citigroup Inc <C.N>, one of the big financial companies bailed out by the U.S. government, rose more than 4 percent on Wednesday, while another, American International Group Inc <AIG.N>, jumped 10 percent. The run-up built on Tuesday ... More

  • Lawsuits, poker and the death of a boutique bank

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - In September 2008, as Lehman Brothers was breaking into a million pieces, a young investment bank was pushing up through the rubble. Pali Capital, a boutique firm specializing in derivatives and fixed-income trading, was one of the few financial outfits hiring traders ... More

  • French PM blasts U.S. over aerial tanker competition

    BERLIN (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon criticized the United States' handling of a multi-billion-dollar aerial tanker competition that saw Northrop Grumman <NOC.N> and European partner EADS <EAD.PA> drop out of the race. "I think that the attitude of the American government on ... More

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  • Corey Haim dies of overdose

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said on Wednesday. He was 38. Haim, who rose to ... More

  • Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original"

    By Mike Collett-White and Nickie Omer LONDON (Reuters) - Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera." After Tuesday night's world premiere at the Adelphi Theater in London's West ... More

  • Charlie Sheen returning to work next Tuesday

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlie Sheen is expected to return to work on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday, according to his publicist. The actor is said to be in the process of exiting the rehab facility he checked into February 23. On ... More

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  • FDA approves Botox to treat wrist, finger spasms

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved the use of Allergan Inc's wrinkle smoother Botox to treat spasms of the elbow, wrist and fingers in adults. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug to treat spasticity in the ... More

  • Live kidney donors do not die sooner: study

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Healthy Americans who donated a kidney were not at higher risk of dying afterward, which may reassure potential donors and help shorten the long waiting list for an organ, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The conclusion was drawn from the 80,347 ... More

  • U.S. says "drugged driving" growing threat

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Motorists under the influence of drugs are a growing threat on U.S. roads, while the number who drink and drive has fallen thanks to education and law enforcement, a top U.S. drug control official said on Tuesday. The United States is ... More

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  • SpaceX aborts rocket engine test

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station. The test was aborted two ... More

  • Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday. The Royal Society, an influential science academy whose ... More

  • Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday. Rolf-Dieter Heuer told a news conference some ... More

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  • IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate. As growth in developed markets such as Europe, Japan and United States has stalled, the wireless industry is looking especially ... More

  • Chinese group file complaint over faulty HP laptops

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for the group said on Wednesday. Jiang Suhua, a lawyer at ... More

  • "Logorama" duo take aim at "Ghost Recon" videogame

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet. Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy will do a 20-minute live-action film for the latest installment of Ubisoft's ... More

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  • Harrington to celebrate St Patrick's Day with Obama

    MIAMI (Reuters) - Two-times British Open winner Padraig Harrington will be a guest of U.S. president Barack Obama at the White House St Patrick's Day party next week, the Irish golfer told reporters on Wednesday. "I got an invite to go to the St ... More

  • Riesch wins to put Vonn title on hold

    GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Double Olympic gold medalist Maria Riesch handed Lindsey Vonn a rare downhill defeat on Wednesday and also forced her American friend to put her third successive overall World Cup title on hold. Vonn, who has already clinched the World Cup downhill title ... More

  • Janka wins downhill to lead World Cup

    GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Switzerland's Carlo Janka went back to the top of the overall World Cup standings by winning a thrilling downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in which 0.07 seconds separated the top four. The Olympic giant slalom gold medalist beat Austria's Mario Scheiber ... More

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