 8-year-old critical after Wash. school shooting
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 23.02.2012 3:39  1 views  0 comments
AP - An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday. Read more »
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Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'
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23.02.2012 3:30 1 views 0 comments
 AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.
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Police say love triangle led to CA murder-suicide
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23.02.2012 3:26 1 views 0 comments
AP - A 73-year-old gunman entangled in a love triangle shot and killed the treasurer of a remote-controlled airplane club who police said was having an affair with the estranged wife of the attacker. Read more »
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Teenage girl dies after inhaling helium at party
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23.02.2012 3:26 1 views 0 comments
AP - Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana. Read more »
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Police: Girl forced to run 3 hours dies; 2 charged
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23.02.2012 3:26 1 views 0 comments
AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and her death days later was ruled a homicide. Read more »
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2nd degree murder verdict in lacrosse death trial
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23.02.2012 3:24 1 views 0 comments
AP - Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the drunken, jealousy-fueled slaying of his ex-girlfriend, rejecting a verdict of first-degree murder and a possible life sentence. Read more »
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Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M
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23.02.2012 3:22 1 views 0 comments
 AP - Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
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Guantanamo captive in plea deal with U.S. prosecutors
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23.02.2012 3:03 1 views 0 comments
Reuters - An alleged al Qaeda operative from Maryland held at Guantanamo Bay has entered into a plea agreement with U.S. military prosecutors that calls for him to testify against other detainees, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Read more »
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2nd degree murder verdict in lacrosse death trial
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23.02.2012 2:38 2 views 0 comments
AP - Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the drunken, jealousy-fueled slaying of his ex-girlfriend, rejecting a verdict of first-degree murder and a possible life sentence. Read more »
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8-year-old critical after Wash. school shooting
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23.02.2012 2:35 2 views 0 comments
AP - An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday. Read more »
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Police: Girl forced to run 3 hours dies; 2 charged
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23.02.2012 2:30 2 views 0 comments
AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and her death days later was ruled a homicide. Read more »
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Authorities tracing phone of mountain man's family
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23.02.2012 2:27 2 views 0 comments
 AP - Troy James Knapp is a wanted man, a mountain recluse authorities say is responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries in the remote southern Utah wilderness. He's considered armed and dangerous, a ticking time bomb.
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Lesbian federal worker wins health benefits case
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23.02.2012 2:25 2 views 0 comments
AP - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions. Read more »
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Obama signs payroll tax cut extension into law
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23.02.2012 2:16 2 views 0 comments
AP - President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan agreement in the continuing partisan battle over jobs, taxes and debt. Read more »
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Struggling Floridians line up for a chance to keep homes
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23.02.2012 2:15 2 views 0 comments
Reuters - Nearly 1,200 people lined up at a downtown Miami conference center on Wednesday, holding onto mortgage documents and income statements in the hope of saving the homes they are struggling to pay for. Read more »
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Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'
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23.02.2012 2:13 2 views 0 comments
AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.
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2nd degree murder verdict in lacrosse death trial
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23.02.2012 2:12 2 views 0 comments
AP - Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend that was fueled by jealousy over her relationship with another lacrosse player. Read more »
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Teenage girl dies after inhaling helium at party
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23.02.2012 2:09 2 views 0 comments
AP - Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana. Read more »
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Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M
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23.02.2012 2:05 2 views 0 comments
AP - Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
Read more »
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Police say love triangle led to CA murder-suicide
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23.02.2012 2:01 2 views 0 comments
AP - A 73-year-old gunman entangled in a love triangle shot and killed the treasurer of a remote-controlled airplane club who police said was having an affair with the estranged wife of the attacker. Read more »
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Ancient Brazilian Carving Believed to Be Among World's Oldest