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Chompsgiving to Chew Year's: Holiday Dishes
8:29 am
Wed November 23, 2011

Turkey Joints That Taste Like Candy

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A piece of turkey joint candy made in Rome, N.Y.
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Part of an ongoing series on unique holiday dishes

Each fall when it turns cold, a candy maker in Rome, N.Y., kicks into production on a confection known as turkey joints.

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Law
8:16 am
Wed November 23, 2011

The Newest Magazine Fad: The Mug-Shot Tabloid

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Each week, Little Rock, Ark., residents snap up some 7,000 copies of The Slammer.
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Daniel Schroeder, publisher of The Slammer, admits it's a sense of voyeurism that sells the papers, but he says they also help law enforcement.
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The Two-Way
8:15 am
Wed November 23, 2011

It's Crowded Out There Again, Got A Holiday Travel Tip To Share?

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News nuggets like these are holiday classics:

-- "42.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a four percent increase from the 40.9 million people who traveled one year ago," the AAA says.

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It's All Politics
8:05 am
Wed November 23, 2011

Fact-Checking The GOP Debate: What The Candidates Said On National Security

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Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com and Washington bureau chief for The St. Petersburg Times, wrote about about how candidates at Tuesday night's GOP debate rated on PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter for PolitiFact.com and It's All Politics:

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The Two-Way
7:30 am
Wed November 23, 2011

Noriega To Be Extradited To Panama

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Gen. Manuel Noriega back in the day (August, 1989).
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It looks like former dictator Manuel Noriega will spend his last days in a Panamanian jail cell.

"A Paris appeals court ruled Wednesday to grant an extradition request from Panama so the elderly ex-military strongman can serve out sentences given after he was convicted in absentia there, in the latest phase of his complex legal odyssey," The Associated Press reports.

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