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• Spirit raises baggage fees again — pay early or pay a lot!

  Would you pay $100 to put your carry-on bag in an airplane overhead bin? If you fly Spirit Airlines this fall and don’t pay before you get to the gate, you almost certainly will.

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• 'Overwhelming military-type response': Report criticizes Oakland police handling of Occupy protests

  Oakland police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according to a report issued on Monday. The federal court monitor trackin …

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• I did 111 mph 'to go have sex,' man tells cops

  File this under "Excuses Traffic Cops Don't Hear Every Day." A Chicago-area man who allegedly was clocked driving 111 mph through a 45 mph forest preserve told a patrol officer he was in a hurry to “try to go have sex with a girl he liked.” Zachary P. Ramirez, 21, of …

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• Guess who's coming to dinner? Navy family starts unique deployment ritual

  Sarah Smiley knew her husband’s deployment was going to be hard. Dustin, a Navy pilot, would be gone in the Middle East for 13 months.

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• Philadelphia Muslims offer $20,000 reward to find criminals wearing Islamic garb

  Philadelphia-area Muslims are offering a $20,000 reward to find criminals cloaking their identities beneath Islamic women's clothing, saying the crooks are feeding mistrust of their faith.

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