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Rewrite sentences for AP style Submit Assignment

1. It's not OK to wear T-shirts at practice, coach Carter said.
2. General Myers met 10 times with former Vice President Gore.
3. He drove east from Seattle, Washington to Boise, Idaho.
4. The FBI office has moved to 1250 Third Avenue.
5. In the '90s she received mostly A's in school despite being a rock'n'roll groupie.
6. Aaron C. Reskew Jr. is the candidate that will be elected mayor.
7. 17 clerks worked from 7-10 a.m. and were paid just five dollars an hour.
8. Over 16,000 attended Game One of the World Series to see the Tiger's 5-to-2 victory.
9. Nearly 50 percent of adults say they're concerned about developing Alzheimers disease.
10. The 19-year-old girl was born September 20.

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