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Ukraine's key election fails to spark enthusiasm 10/24/2014 04:46pm • PETER LEONARD Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Gazing across the Maidan square, Evelina Martirosyan recalls how euphoric she was as she joined protests that changed Ukraine's history. Since the revolution this year that toppled a despised president, her dreams of a better future have been blun Ole Miss hopes it's not Tiger Bait in Baton Rouge 10/24/2014 11:18am • RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer It's midterm election time and football teams are campaigning in their own ways.Florida State -- unbeaten thanks to a late whistle against Notre Dame -- is still holding its own in its re-election bid for another shot at a national title. While several incumbent power b 'Silicon Beach' brings tech boom to Los Angeles 10/24/2014 04:10am • RYAN NAKASHIMA AP Business Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) -- So long Silicon Valley. These days entrepreneurs and engineers are flocking to a place better known for wave surfing than Web surfing. Amid the palm trees and purple sunsets of the Southern California coastline, techies have built "Silicon Beach OKCtober breaks away from Rocktober 10/23/2014 01:01am • WASHINGTON -- Before the World Series began, I predicted one thing in particular: Whichever team won the game following the Kansas City Royals' first loss would win the series. The Royals staked that claim Wednesday night, pulling away from the San Francisco Giants for a 7-2 victory in front of Favre's return to Lambeau Field on hold 10/22/2014 07:30pm • ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer Brett Favre's first visit to Lambeau Field since his retirement is on hold because of Bart Starr's health.Favre had hoped to attend the Green Bay Packers' Nov. 9 game against the Chicago Bears and participate with Starr in a pregame coin toss. But Starr, 80, is Huge gold nugget going up for sale in California 10/22/2014 06:14pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California's historic Gold Country is going up for sale.Weighing in at 6.07 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000.The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1sNy Japan's chrysanthemums: More than symbol of autumn 10/22/2014 07:28am • LINDA LOMBARDI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- When Americans think of flowers and Japan, we think of cherry blossoms. But to the Japanese, there's a flower for every time of year, and right now, it's the chrysanthemum, celebrated in festivals, shows and home displays.Like the cherry blossom, the chr Oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt dies at 88 10/22/2014 07:24am • DALLAS (AP) -- Nelson Bunker Hunt, a Texas oilman who once tried to corner the silver market with one of his brothers only to see the move end in financial disaster, has died. He was 88.Hunt died Tuesday at a Dallas assisted-living center after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, his brother, W. Arabs from Israel risk arrest for 'Arab Idol' show 10/18/2014 04:54am • AREEJ HAZBOUN Associated Press MAJD AL-KRUM, Israel (AP) -- Their goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world's premiere television song competition.But the journey Manal Mousa, 25, and Haitham Khalaily, 24, have taken from their villages in Israel to the competition in Lebanon could comprise a televis With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too 10/15/2014 11:28am • SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- People are changing Earth so much, warming and polluting it, that many scientists are turning to a new way to describe the time we live in. They're calling it the Anthropocene -- the age of humans.Though most non-experts don't realize it, science US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State 10/14/2014 11:54pm • BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- The United States and Russia vowed Tuesday to renew cooperation on a broad array of global security matters, including intelligence sharing on Islamic State militants, even as the two powers remained deeply at odds over the crisis in Ukraine.Although Se Worley, Tennessee trounce Chattanooga 45-10 10/11/2014 08:23pm • STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Justin Worley continues to show he can effectively lead Tennessee's offense, as long as his young line gives him enough time.Worley threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores Saturday as Tennessee ended a three-game skid with a 4 Parkmobile Now Available Throughout Arlington 10/10/2014 01:30pm • The rollout of Arlington’s smartphone parking system is expected to be complete by the end of the weekend. Metered parking has been gradually adopting the Parkmobile system — which allows users to download the Parkmobile app and use the app to connect to their credit card and pa Muslim hijabi hipsters fusing fashion with faith 10/09/2014 09:24am • AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Fashion-conscious Muslim women from Kuala Lampur to Los Angeles who wear the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, have had to get creative.By fusing both their sense of fashion with their faith, this growing group, some of whom have 12 Questions to Ask When You're Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer 10/09/2014 12:00am • In August 2013, Jewel Figueras, 51, returned to South Florida from vacation with severe pain in her stomach. That's when she found out she had ovarian cancer. "I was diagnosed by accident, as most women are," she says. She was told in the hospital she had diverticulitis, and then: "But did you know