Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. L.L.C., of Chevy Chase, which operates 86 hotels around the world, will assume management of One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa on Oct. 2, the company announced on Monday. The luxury resort will become The Ritz-Carlton Bal ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Notre Dame got everything it wanted and the Atlantic Coast Conference got Notre Dame. The school announced Wednesday that it would join the ACC in all the conference’s sports except football, though it will play five ...

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WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. 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 ...

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The man accused of fatally shooting Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor during a 2007 burglary has fired his lawyer one month before his murder trial. Eric Rivera Jr. gave the Miami-Dade County, Fla., judge a letter Friday explaining his reasons ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis won’t ever be mistaken for Miami’s South Beach or New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, but visitors headed to the Circle City for the Super Bowl will find plenty of attractions, great restaurants and interesting taverns — not to ...

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Charter flights from Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Cuba will begin on March 21. The weekly service begins the week before Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit the communist island nation. BWI announced Tuesday that the flights ...

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MIAMI — Franky the drug dog’s super-sensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for ...

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RICHMOND, Va.  — A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 100-year prison sentence of a Miami businessman who swindled clients out of about $126 million to finance a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars and a yacht he named after ...

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Football stadiums in the Atlantic Coast Conference generally are less full than they were last year. The 12 ACC teams’ stadiums had been filled to only 86.9 percent capacity this season before last weekend’s games. According to league data, the ...

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NEW YORK — U.S. airlines curbed long delays in July and improved their overall on-time rates compared with both a month and year earlier, the Department of Transportation said Monday. Only one plane got stuck on the tarmac for more ...

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