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Legendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89

Jeff Wilson, Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 11, 2012 - 3:33pm

DALLAS -- Carroll Shelby, the legendary car designer and champion auto racer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.

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Schoolgirls excluded from movie screening of 'Red Tails'

Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 6:30pm

DALLAS -- When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead.

One of the pilots is among those asking why.

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Neighbor describes Ill. mom shooting child in yard

Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 5:30pm

PONTIAC, Ill. — A burst of gunfire sent Annelise Fiedler running out of her home to see what the noise was. In the yard next door, she saw 30-year-old Sara McMeen hovering over her baby as if she had dropped her. Fiedler asked McMeen if everything was all right.

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Ward Bruning washes off a freshly killed Thanksgiving turkey on his farm in Akron, N.Y., on Tuesday.

Economy means scaled-back Thanksgiving

Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:58pm

Some are holding potluck dinners instead of springing for the entire feast. Others are staying home rather than flying. And a few are skipping the turkey altogether.

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