AP - Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year. The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday for four games the rest of the regular season after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide receiver couldn’t come back for playoffs, either.
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Giants suspend Burress for rest of regular season (AP)
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Divorce rate increases in Marine Corps, Army (AP)
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AP - The divorce rate among soldiers and Marines increased last year as military marriages suffered continuing stress from America’s two ongoing wars. There were an estimated 10,200 failed marriages in the active duty Army and 3,077 among Marines, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press for the budget year ended Sept. 30.
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Newly released Nixon-era memo shows aides dishing dirt on critics (AP)
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AP - In Richard Nixon’s time, all the president’s men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.
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Message in bottle tossed off NJ in ‘69 found in NC (AP)
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AP - A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: “If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2.”
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NATO agrees thaw with Russia, boosts ties with Georgia, Ukraine (AFP)
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AFP - NATO agreed to gradually resume high-level talks with Russia, frozen over the August conflict in the Caucasus, and to deepen ties with former Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.
