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NEW YORK – TD Banknorth Inc. (BNK), a large New England banking company, on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Hudson United Bancorp Inc. (HU) for $1.9 billion to expand in the affluent U.S. Northeast. The acquisition is Portland, Maine-based TD Banknorth’s first major purchase since Canada’s Toronto-Dominion Bank paid …

BOWLING GREEN, Va. – The National Boy Scout Jamboree (search) closed to visitors for a day of grieving and reviewing safety procedures Tuesday following the deaths of four adult scout leaders in an electrical accident. Three sons of the victims returned home to Alaska, officials said. “Our hearts go out …

WASHINGTON – The government is investigating a possible new case of mad cow disease (search), but says there is no threat to the U.S. food supply. Testing indicated the presence of the disease in a cow that died on the farm where it lived, John Clifford, the Agriculture Department’s (search) …