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Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session

NEW YORK - Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that left stocks with a widely mixed finish. Late-day buying helped curb steep losses and gave the market its best showing of the week as investors snapped up bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive losses.  Read More

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Mom of Phillies manager Manuel dies before Game 2

The Phillies said that June Manuel died Friday morning at Roanoke (Va.) Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. She was 87. The Phillies had no information about the cause of death.  Read More

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Stocks end wild session mixed after 8-day slide

NEW YORK - Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that left stocks with a widely mixed finish. Late-day buying helped curb steep losses and gave the market its best showing of the week as investors snapped up bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive losses.  Read More

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Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.  Read More

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Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen

SAN'A, Yemen - Dozens of bodies washed ashore Friday in Yemen after smugglers threw nearly 150 Somali migrants overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world.  Read More

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Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.  Read More

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Markets stampede lower; global finance chiefs meet

Stock markets jolted still lower in the U.S. and around the world Friday despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede, and the globe's industrial powers urgently debated forceful new steps in Washington to prevent a worldwide economic catastrophe.  Read More

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