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Colorado Springs’ School District 11 meets to discuss utilization plan, and Representative Mike Coffman faces an ethics hearing.

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Canadian Driver Fined $118 For Singing While Driving
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Montreal police ticketed Taoufik Moalla for screaming in public. But Moalla says he was doing nothing more than singing along to C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).”
 

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Pablo Neruda Didn’t Die Of Cancer, Experts Say. So What Killed The Poet?
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Official documents say the Nobel laureate died of prostate cancer in 1973. But 16 forensics experts have unanimously concluded that isn’t true, stoking suspicions again that he was actually poisoned.
 

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Prominent Russian Journalist Stabbed In Moscow
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Investigators say the suspect believed he’d been communicating telepathically with Tatyana Felgenhauer, and a psychiatric evaluation has been ordered. Ekho Moskvy radio has criticized the government.
 

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Pablo Neruda Didn’t Die Of Cancer, Experts Say. So What Killed The Poet?
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Official documents say the Nobel laureate died of prostate cancer in 1973. But 16 forensics experts have unanimously concluded that isn’t true, stoking suspicions again that he was actually poisoned.
 

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‘I Can’t Breathe’ Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner
October 23, 2017 | FA · “The reality is that Eric Garner died at the hands of a police force and a criminal justice system that were designed entirely by white people, for the most part,” says journalist Matt Taibbi.
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‘The Walking Dead’ Returns To Form In Season 8 Premiere
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Season seven saw a drop in ratings after a plot twist that traumatized the show’s loyal audience. Now, in season eight, The Walking Dead‘s heroes fight back.
 

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Canadian Motorist Fined $118 For Singing While Driving
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Montreal police ticketed Taoufik Moalla for screaming in public. But Moalla says he was doing nothing more than singing along to C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).”
 

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Martin Eric Ain, Celtic Frost Bassist, Carved And Collapsed Metal
October 23, 2017 | NPR · Ain co-founded Hellhammer and Celtic Frost with guitarist Tom Warrior, extreme metal bands that splayed shades of black across three decades.
 

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Songs We Love: White Heaven, ‘Blind Promise’
October 23, 2017 | NPR · In 1991, the Tokyo Flashback comp introduced the world to Japanese psychedelic music. Experience the whammy-bar wizardry of White Heaven’s “Blind Promise” from a new reissue.
 

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