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Sheen kicks off 'Torpedo of Truth' tour in Detroit
DETROIT — Charlie Sheen has been everywhere lately, venting in interviews and online postings about being fired from his hit TV show, and carrying on about the "tiger blood" coursing through his veins and the "trolls" who derailed his career.

Cicero: Joe Froggers truly were a sailor's delight
It's a bit of an oddity that we've had two requests in recent weeks for recipes that had the word frog in them - but did not in any way involve amphibians. First we learned of a Hungarian crepe that was nicknamed frog's eyes, and now readers have inundated us with recipes and anecdotes about Joe Froggers, a big New England spice cookie that dates back to colonial times.

Researchers using sonar to map old shipwrecks
NORFOLK, Va. -- World War II shipwrecks off North Carolina and Civil War shipwrecks in Virginia are being analyzed with sonar technology so sophisticated that the public could one day view near photographic images in detail even better than diving at some of the sites could provide.

Tucker Torpedo Model 48
Was Preston Tucker a visionary or a charlatan, a promoter or a huckster, a saint or a sinner? Five decades after he introduced his amazing car upon an unsuspecting public, those questions are impossible to answer. But the fact is, he was probably all of these things and more, for the story of Tucker and his Torpedo is the story of America in the wonderful, dreadful aftermath of World War II. It's the story of hoping against hope and daring to be different and, ultimately, the story of failure either unfairly thrust upon him or richly deserved.

Navy School Campus symbolically handed over as Supply Corps preps move
After half a century at its historic, oak-strewn campus on Prince Avenue, the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School ceremonially weighed anchor Tuesday, opening a berth for the University of Georgia's medical and public health schools.