Articles by Mike Russell
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Get Outdoors: The dentist vs. the Cecil the lion — get a grip!
Mike Russell | July 29, 2015 6:07 amI will begin by stating that as an avid outdoorsman, poaching is the most vile practice in this industry. There is no excuse, period. Which happens to be subject of the latest slactivist rage pulsing through the Internet. The story of an American dentist who coughed up $50,000, traveled to Africa, and hunted a lion. […]
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Correction: Lake Erie Algae story
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amIn a story July 28 about toxins in lakes, The Associated Press reported erroneously on the affiliation of Milt Miller. He is restoration manager for Grand Lake St. Marys, not Lake Erie.
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MasterCard 2Q profit slips and revenue falls short
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amMasterCard Inc. on Wednesday said that its second-quarter profit edged down 1 percent as a strong dollar weighed on the company’s results.
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US strength helps Goodyear top expectations
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. on Wednesday reported a drop in second-quarter profit as a strong U.S. dollar cut into international sales, but the results beat Wall Street expectations.
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Israeli bulldozers start demolishing West Bank settlement
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amIsraeli bulldozers began demolishing a contested housing complex in a West Bank settlement on Wednesday as the prime minister’s office announced the “immediate construction” of some 300 new units at another location in the same settlement and advanced plans for about 500 new units in east Jerusalem.
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The NFL upholds Tom Brady’s suspension but the battle isn’t over
Monica Lindstrom | July 29, 2015 6:07 amRoger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League, upheld Tom Brady’s four game suspension that is set to start September 10 when the New England Patriots play the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Report says crash site of missing Lao helicopter found
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amSearch teams in Laos have located the crash site of a Soviet-made Mi-7 Lao military helicopter that went missing this week with 23 people on board, the Southeast Asian country’s state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
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Activists warn of refugee housing crisis in German capital
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amA thousand refugees may be sleeping outside in Berlin each night because authorities in the German capital are overwhelmed with the sharp rise in asylum-seekers this year, an activist group said Wednesday.
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Impending execution brings out mixed feelings in India
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amFew countries sentence more people to death than India. Whether those punishments are actually carried out is another matter. Though well over a thousand people have been sent to death row this century, just three have been executed.
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Image of Asia: Welcoming Turkey’s president to Beijing
Associated Press | July 29, 2015 6:07 amIn this photo by Ng Han Guan, a child plays with Chinese and Turkish national flags before a welcome ceremony for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. About two dozen children waved the flags and hoisted flowers when Erdogan and Chinese President Xi Jinping passed them after […]
