AP - The Cincinnati Bengals say Chad Ocho Cinco, the wide receiver formerly known as Chad Johnson, will be deactivated for Thursday night’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers for violating a team rule.

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AP - George Steinbrenner’s 35-year reign as boss of the New York Yankees ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball’s most famous team to his youngest son, Hal.

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AP - Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to a ranges not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and as demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels.

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AP - A commuter train collided with a freight train Thursday in Southern California, producing no serious injuries but bringing back memories of a deadly commuter-train wreck in the region just two months ago.

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AP - Making John A. Junior Gotti stand trial on racketeering charges in Tampa instead of New York would be like cutting off the supplies he needs to fight the fight, his attorney told a federal judge Thursday. Charles Carnesi, attorney for the New York Mafia scion, argued that a Tampa trial would be a [...]

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AP - The Army has set a date for its first execution in nearly 50 years.

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AP - Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to a ranges not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and as demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels.

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AP - Democratic leaders in Congress sidetracked legislation to bail out the auto industry Thursday and demanded the Big Three develop a plan assuring the money would make them economically viable. Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a hastily called news conference in [...]

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AP - What Robert Gates once called inconceivable to me — his remaining as defense secretary beyond Inauguration Day — is looking a bit more conceivable to the rest of Washington.

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AFP - A militant Taliban group warned Thursday of reprisals in Pakistan if there was another US drone attack, as the government condemned the latest missile strike in its territory.

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