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The more “clunkier” the car, the more reason to trade it in, right? Not so. The Cash for Clunkers program is offering incentives for auto owners to turn in their older fuel-inefficient cars for brand new ones, but there’s an age limit. Yes, that’s right, your car may just be too clunky.
Interesting piece in the [...]

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Probably the most extreme and shocking imagery out of yesterday’s crowd gathered outside the president’s town hall meeting in Portsmouth was a picture of Barak Obama with a Hitler mustache. The doctored photo — in various forms — has been popping up at protests around the country. There were several versions at Portsmouth High yesterday. [...]

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Yesterday’s visit by President Barak Obama saw a slightly more civil tone than what we’ve seen in similar town hall meetings across the country. The street outside was filled with its share of charecters, however. I’m posting some of the unedited video we shot yesterday, most of which didn’t wind up in our finished piece.
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It’s easy to concentrate on the circus aspects of it: A chorus of singers caroling in German while holding up a sign comparing President Barak Obama to Hitler clashes with the tunes being played by a group calling itself “The Leftist Marching Band.” A man carrying a U.S. flag and wearing some sort of pseudo-colonial-era [...]

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It’s just a bizarre tale — but then again, it’s Vegas.
Eagle-Tribune reporter Crystal Bozek today tells the story of an Andover businessman who claims $30,000 worth of fradulant charges were placed on his credit card on a recent business trip to Las Vegas. James Hackett says someone handed him his wallet while he was in [...]

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Sure, he’s been dead for 161 years, but you can now follow former U.S. President John Quincy Adams on Twitter. And — as this Twitter user can attest to — he’s pretty Twitter savvy. This just in from our Associated Press wire:
John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. society
By JEANNIE NUSS
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - [...]

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