WARNING: The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on teas and other products that falsely claim to treat cancer.
DIG IT: The Bureau of Land Management has announced a “major dinosaur fossil discovery” in Utah, excavated by the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Ill.
LANDMARK WIN: Democrat Donna Edwards has won a special election to become Maryland’s first black congresswoman, defeating Republican Peter James in the race to serve the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Albert Wynn’s term.
SETTLEMENT: A Virginia judge on Tuesday approved an $11 million state settlement with families of most victims in last year’s Virginia Tech slayings.
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‘I didn’t think anyone would come up to a lemonade stand and steal. That’s really low.’
– Fred Erstine, 12, after a neighborhood stand was robbed of $17.50 in Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday. One of the children running it, 12- year-old Dominique Morefield, chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police. Steve Tryon, 18, was being held Tuesday on a preliminary felony robbery charge.
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