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Tim McGraw is giving away 25 mortgage-free houses - one for each stop on this summer’s “Brothers ofthe Sun” tour with Kenny Chesney - to wounded or needy servicemen. McGraw will kick off the campaign with a Memorial Day concert for members of the military at New York City’s Beacon Theatre during Fle...

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UA System approves raises

For the first time in several years, most of the University of Arkansas System’s campuses will start the next fiscal year with plans to provide faculty pay increases.

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Rahul Nagvekar, 14, of Sugar Land, Texas, won the National Geographic Bee, its $25,000 college scholarship and trip to the Galapagos Islands, beating out runner-up Vansh Jain, a 13-yearold from Minocqua, Wis., and third-place finisher 13-year-old Varun Mahadevan of Fremont, Calif.

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UN panel: Syrian forces, opposition committing crimes

The Syrian regime and an increasingly organized rebel force are carrying out illegal killings and abusing their opponents, but government forces are still responsible for most of the violence stemming from the country’s uprising, a U.N. panel said Thursday.

Study of Medicare, pharmacies points to ‘extreme billers’

A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at 2,600 drugstores nationwide uncovered by federal investigators in a report Thursday.

Panel votes to keep paying legislators 51 cents per mile

The Legislative Council decided Friday that the Bureau of Legislative Research will keep paying lawmakers 51 cents per mile for their mileage expenses, though a Senate committee voted earlier this month to increase the rate the Senate pays to senators from 51 cents to 55.5 cents per mile.

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