MERGER TALKS: Ford wants to build on strengths for moment (Detroit Free Press)
While automakers around the globe talk to each other behind the scenes about possible partnerships and alliances to survive these tough times -- like a corporate version of speed dating -- Ford Motor Co. is just as happy to stay at home.
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Bottoming theory picks up support, but... (SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Was Friday's reversal the manna from heaven that downtrodden stock market bulls have been clamoring for?
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Events Calendar (The Times-News)
Magic Valley Little Theater presents "Stay as Dead as You Are," a murder mystery dinner theater, at the Turf Club. Doors open at 6 p.m. for no-host bar; dinner served at 6:30 p.m. Tickets, $25 per person or $45 per couple (dinner and show), are available at Everybody's Business and Kelley Garden Center in Twin Falls, Arlene's Flowers in Jerome, Dutch Garden in Wendell, Sav-Mor Drug in Buhl or ...
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Deeper look at Week 7's key games (Fox Sports)
Getting pressure on Sam Bradford will be key for the Texas defense. Go inside Oklahoma-Texas and the rest of Week 7's top games.
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Appliances keep collector percolating (The Joplin Globe)
DIAMOND, Mo. — Zapping a hot dog used to have a whole different meaning. Just ask Richard Larrison, the owner of a couple of devices designed to “electrocute� hot dogs.
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Around the MAC (USA Today)
Around the MAC
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Hot NFL cornerbacks will soon experience slim pickings (Dallas Morning News)
Tennessee cornerback Cortland Finnegan has four interceptions through five games – a pace of thievery that would net him 13 by season's end. Excuse veteran cornerbacks around the league for snickering.
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Deeper look at Week 6's key games (Fox Sports)
USC looks to bounce back and avoid a sweep by the state of Oregon vs. the Ducks. Take a deeper look at Week 6's big games.
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No spread, just bread and butter (The Gazette)
Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler. Archie Griffin and Ron Dayne. Run and run. Pound and pound.Old-time football is ancient history in the Big Ten, right? Eight of the 11 teams in the conference use at least some elements of the wide-open, spread offense. Shotguns and no-huddles. Three, four, five receivers on the field at a time.Are the days of the Big Ten being a power league over? What hath Joe ...
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Knox H.S. football players charged with burglary (WNDU 16 South Bend)
Two star players on the Knox High School football team have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a rash of business burglaries.
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