Thursday, March 18
The recently released national broadband plan has grand ideas for hooking people up to high-speed Internet, and are looking at a "national broadband fee" to pay for it.
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PepsiCo plans to remove sugary drinks from schools worldwide, following the success of programs in the U.S. aimed at cutting down on childhood obesity.
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The ex-CEO of Circuit City (you know, the guy who has that "ex" distinction because his company went bankrupt) has gotten approval for a $350,000 bonus and will also be paid hundreds of dollars an hour for consulting work he provided in the retail chain's final days.
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An arrest was made Wednesday in an ongoing investigation of an illegal prescription drug ring tied to Corey Haim, People magazine reported.
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Bob Dotson revisits Bud Kolbrener, who came out of retirement and started a new candy company just to provide work for ex-employees who had lost their jobs — and reveals the surprising outcome of Kolbrener’s offer to let them run the company.
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The celebrity husband of actress Sandra Bullock on Thursday broke his silence on reports that he cheated on his Oscar-winning wife, telling People magazine he used "poor judgment" and asking his family to "forgive me."
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New evidence was released Thursday in the Casey Anthony murder case, including the amount of money she received from a television network, as well as conversations she had with other inmates.
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A Minnesota man forced his wife to work as a prostitute in Chicago and across the country, threatening to harm their child if she tried to quit, authorities said Wednesday.
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Florida authorities said a woman who fell asleep in the back seat of her vehicle had to use bolt cutters to escape from a tow yard upon waking.
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An unlikely patient walked into the emergency room at San Juan Regional Medical Center on Saturday night.
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Florida police said a martial arts instructor with a second-degree black belt used his fighting skills to foil a burglar who attempted to enter his home.
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Talk show host and media magnate Oprah Winfrey is expected to spend two weeks defending herself at trial in a defamation case linked to the sex-abuse scandal at her girls school in South Africa.
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A North Carolina teacher reportedly has been suspended after being accused of writing "loser" on a sixth-grade student's school work.
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Vice President Joe Biden asked for God's blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick's Day — except the elderly lady is very much alive.
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A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.
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President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.
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Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul today when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.
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An Arizona man accused admonishing motorists of traffic laws while posing as a police officer apparently picked the wrong driver to pull over.
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Bernard Madoff, the swindler who orchestrated a multibillion dollar fraud, was attacked by another inmate at the federal prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence.
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Wednesday, March 17
Police in Louisiana said a man was arrested on a firearms charge for shooting his shotgun at his own fence to "blow off steam" following an argument.
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Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock was blindsided Wednesday by reports her bad boy husband, Jesse James, is cheating on her with a tattoo model.
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The October deaths of three people who participated in a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona have been ruled accidental, according to autopsy results released Wednesday.
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The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it before the aircraft hit him from behind Monday evening and killed him.
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Company officials are reviewing security tapes after an announcement was made for "all black people" to leave a southern New Jersey Walmart store.
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A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said.
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An unlikely patient walked into the emergency room at San Juan Regional Medical Center on Saturday night. Hospital staff and patients were surprised when the automatic doors opened and a dog with blood on its nose and paw and a puncture hole in its rear leg walked inside.
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Classmates.com is offering to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of falsely leading people to believe their old schoolmates wanted to contact them. The $10 million proposed settlement would give $3 each to customers, and the defendants’ lawyers get $1.3 million plus costs for their trouble.
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When a Tennessee jailer ripped the gold grill from a new inmate's teeth two days before Thanksgiving last year, it left the 31-year-old man in excruciating pain and left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $100,000 in damages.
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A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road said he wrote a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for death when he was rescued.
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President Obama said yesterday in Ohio that "Your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent," said the president, "which means they could give you a raise." But while Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, check the fine print.
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Much of the world is turning green Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all hues of Irishness.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for a quick legal decision, hoping to save a high school prom that was allegedly canceled because two lesbians wanted to attend it together.
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Police in Tennessee said a woman whose bulldog attacked four cars, including two police vehicles, was issued a citation and her pets were taken away.
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Spurred by budget crises, California and Michigan together reduced their prison populations by more than 7,500 last year, contributing to what a new report says is the first nationwide decline in the number of state inmates since 1972.
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One was a drywall contractor and father, another a petite woman who cared for the elderly, another a U.S. military officer. The most alarming thing about a string of recently arrested terror suspects is that they are all Americans.
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Police said a central Pennsylvania thief who stole the wheels off a car was nice enough to replace them — albeit with worn tires.
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Tuesday, March 16
A Philadelphia woman arrested on drunken-driving charges said Cherry Hill police went too far when they secretly videotaped her using the bathroom last year.
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A hungry pooch gobbled up the 3-carat gem when a diamond dealer was showing it to a store owner in Potomac, Md. After a few days of waiting, the owner was able to retrieve the jewel.
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Officials at Time Warner Cable were forced to apologize Tuesday after airing adult programming on two children’s television channels.
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A Russian couple having sex in a car parked in a tiny garage have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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A California car wash owner says he’s rather amused after two Internal Revenue Service agents visited his business to demand he pay a debt – of four cents.
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Tiger Woods, who had withdrawn from competitive golf after details of his adulterous affairs surfaced late last year, will return to professional golf at the U.S. Masters in early April, he said in a statement.
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Under this scheme, the House could simultaneously approve the Senate version of the bill while voting on the package of changes. This would deem the Senate bill passed, though not directly show members voting in favor of passage that could later hurt them in the November elections.
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Most women strive to have an hourglass figure but Donna Simpson is clearly an exception. Simpson, who is from New Jersey, tells Daily Mail that she aspires to be the fattest woman in the world.
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A plane made an emergency landing on the beach at Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island yesterday, hitting a man on the beach and killing him, according to an official with the Hilton Head fire department.
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The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday. He Pingping, of China, who was 2 feet, 5.37 inches tall, had become a recognized figure across the world.
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Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards, made headlines across the globe Monday when her revealing interview with GQ magazine hit the Web. In the interview, Hunter said she and Edwards - who are the parents of a 2-year-old daughter - are still very much in love.
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Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options — anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in.
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Sony Corp has reached a deal with Michael Jackson's estate that could be worth as much as $250 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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Monday, March 15
An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison after giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.
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Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal. While their names are different, most groups have kept the same offices and staff.
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Police arrested an Iowa City woman after she allegedly struck her sister with the lid of a toilet tank.
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Inmate Michael Murphy usually started by seeking a small favor. That would often lead to a kiss or love letters. And in at least five cases, he convinced female prison employees to have sex with him or do other illegal favors.
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John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" for him to stay in the race after his wife's cancer returned, she said in an interview released Monday.
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City officials in Detroit say workers at three city buildings will soon have to monitor their scents or face possible warnings.
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Law requires retailer to pay money to state based on sales from affiliates.
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The Tech Guy Leo Laporte tells Jennifer exactly what went wrong when her neighbor realized someone was leeching off their Wi-Fi access point.
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A 91-year-old New York pharmacy cashier refused medical attention and went back to work after a thief punched her.
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After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.
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A Fort Wayne business that posted a sign barring Burmese immigrants from entering could face a civil rights complaint. The sign attempted to bar Burmese people "for sanitary reasons."
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Three people with ties to the American consulate were killed in a drug-plagued Mexican city, including a U.S. couple shot to death within sight of the border with their baby in their back seat, officials said today.
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On a Saturday at the Lamar Edward Salon, a small cluster of women watch a demonstration of a new product.
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A Santa Rosa woman was arrested for allegedly stealing her landlord's airplane, then abandoning it in a field after it ran out of gas.
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Sunday, March 14
Actor Peter Graves, best known for his starring role on TV's "Mission: Impossible," was found dead Sunday at his home, according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. He was 83.
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Police in Iowa City accused a 77-year-old man they arrested on traffic charges earlier this year of swallowing his hidden marijuana stash while seated in a squad car.
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Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
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Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast.
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Thirteen people are killed in and around Acapulco, with four victims found beheaded, security officials say. Another gun battle in the state leaves 11 people dead.
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A fraud bust, indeed: Spokane County sheriff's deputies said a woman was hiding nearly $26,000 in her bra when she was booked into jail for investigation of theft. Lukeisha A. Harris was one of three Seattle-area residents arrested Friday as part of an alleged fraud ring. Deputies said they used phony Oregon driver's licenses and counterfeit credit cards to obtain cash advances from Spokane banks.
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Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.
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Israel's prime minister has set up a team to investigate why officials announced new settlements in disputed territory while Vice President Joe Biden was visiting.
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A woman killed herself and three other family members, including two young children, in what may have started as a child custody dispute in an upscale, gated Orange County community, authorities said Tuesday.
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Saturday, March 13
Pope Benedict was involved in a decision to move a priest suspected of child abuse to his diocese for therapy, but was moved to the diocese of Munich and Freising in January 1980, and still works in the southern district.
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A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said there was "nothing to indicate it was more than just an illegally parked car."
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A woman dropped her gym bag on the tracks of a crowded Upper East Side subway station yesterday — then made the fatal decision to jump after it as screaming straphangers watched in horror.
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Dozens of tips have poured in after California authorities released more than 100 photos of women and children on Thursday that are believed to have been taken by a serial killer who appeared on the "Dating Game."
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Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Malibu jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside.
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San Antonio police have called off a landfill search after finding no evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy.
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Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday.
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A 22-year-old Lakeville newlywed is contending that a "Dr. Phil" spinoff national TV show tricked him into appearing and discussing the blemishes on his genitals, then airing a rerun of the episode over his protests.
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A man wrapped in duct tape alarmed people in downtown Seattle Friday morning by making threats and walking around with a pipe taped to his arm before surrendering.
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22 pieces of elaborate furniture custom-made for Michael Jackson, including a leather armchair embellished with crystals and gold leaf, will be auctioned off in June, organizers said on Friday.
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Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
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A 92-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police said.
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The man who became the face of the Toyota gas pedal scandal this week has a troubled financial past that is leading some to question whether he was wholly truthful in his story.
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In the movie "Law Abiding Citizen," Gerard Butler plays a man who loses his family when his wife and daughter are raped and murdered. After the main culprit receives a light sentence as part of a plea bargain and gets released from prison much sooner than he should have, our hero goes all "Death Wish" on the creep. He kidnaps him, drugs him and surgically dissects him into two-dozen pieces.
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Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated.
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Friday, March 12
A new study published in this week's issue of "Neurology" finds those who smoke for a long period of time have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
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Authorities said a 30-year-old-man showed up so drunk for his sentencing for drunken driving that he missed his hearing and now faces even more time behind bars.
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Villagers in a remote Alaska region are blaming the death of a 32-year-old schoolteacher on wolves after her body was found along on isolated road, though an autopsy completed Thursday was inconclusive.
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A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.
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A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed the lawsuit.
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A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
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Authorities have released notes written by the Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors before killing himself, and he appears to tell a woman named Donna "sorry I let you down."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is grateful that actor Sean Penn has defended him against his critics within the U.S. media. Penn slammed Chavez critics who refer to the socialist leader as a dictator, and said people should be sent to prison for these kinds of biases.
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Gruesome photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday.
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The head of Germany's Catholic Church apologized to victims of child abuse by priests and said after meeting Pope Benedict Friday the pontiff encouraged him to press ahead with tackling the problem.
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A man who test drove a pickup Tuesday evening made a copy of the key - and then stole the truck overnight, police say.
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A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.
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Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press.
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The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome's mayor saying it sends the wrong message.
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Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was a minor a quarter century ago.
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A Toyota executive said today that the company is "mystified" by a report that a California man's Prius gas pedal became stuck and caused the car to speed out of control on a California freeway.
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Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, who helped form one of the NFL's greatest defensive lines before embarking on a successful career in television, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 69.
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The Senate health care bill crucial to saving President Obama's signature domestic initiative will hit the wallets of a quarter of all Americans making less than $200,000 per year, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee.
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A federal appeals court in California ruled that the references to God on US bank notes and in the pledge of allegiance to the US flag are constitutional and not religious in nature.
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A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.
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Thursday, March 11
A California woman jailed for four years after planting a severed human finger in her Wendy's chili has spoken publicly for the first time about the scheme.
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A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
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The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were injured Thursday in a highway accident, a spokesman for the Democratic senator from Nevada said. The injuries aren't considered life-threatening. Reid's wife, Landra, 69, broke her neck, her back and her nose.
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A 37-year-old woman was accused of putting her 14-year-old behind the wheel because she was too drunk to drive.
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A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers' request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.
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A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.
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A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.
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Four young New York men charged with criminal possession of a weapon are suing police for false arrest following an incident that started with a snowball.
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Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather apologized for his choice of words on Sunday's Chris Matthews Show when he used an analogy of selling watermelons on the side of the road to describe President Obama and healthcare.
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Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege the 55-year-old man broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday.
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Howard Stern sponsored a beauty pageant among three of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, and cocktail waitress Jamie Jungers came out on top.
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has dethroned Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world wealthiest person and China is fast catching up with the number of US billionaires on the annual Forbes rich list.
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When former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package.
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A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part of a flight locked in the lavatory has pleaded guilty to interfering with an airline flight crew.
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An indictment released Wednesday claims 46-year-old Douglas James Duchak of Colorado Springs tried to damage the computer after he was told his job was being eliminated.
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A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison.
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Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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Corey Haim seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death, his manager and closest friend said Wednesday.
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Police in northern Idaho arrested a robber accused of demanding a controlled drug from a pharmacy, then throwing cash on the counter before fleeing. Kootenai County Sheriff Lt. Stu Miller said a 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday.
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Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat - an investigation that was spurred by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove."
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A Russian-speaking immigrant who police said may have been practicing dentistry without a license for years in Oregon has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man believed to be a patient.
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Wednesday, March 10
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6
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A New Jersey man who breached airport security to give his girlfriend a kiss, causing scores of flight delays, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defiant trespass, his lawyer said.
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A Middle Tennessee child who might have thought a loaded handgun was a video game controller has fatally shot herself.
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Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move. "My car can't slow down," he began when a California Highway Patrol dispatcher answered his call.
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Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
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Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to help the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles.
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The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
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A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday.
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A terrified 7-year-old boy begged emergency dispatchers to send police to his Southern California home where three armed robbers threatened his parents, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday.
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Charlie Sheen is expected to return to work on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday, according to his publicist.
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Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods, and critics are taking aim.
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Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog by a caricaturist who was the target of an assassination plot by Muslims arrested in Ireland.
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The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.
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Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.
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A former Ohio doctor was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago.
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Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in "Lucas" and "The Lost Boys" whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died.
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A day after former Rep. Eric Massa acknowledged tickling a colleague but denied the intent was sexual, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer accused "some people" of seeking to politicize the situation.
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A New York chef said public demand led him to allow diners at his restaurant to sample homemade cheese made from his wife's breast milk.
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Tuesday, March 9
Authorities in Florida said residents who saw a man attempting to steal their car used the vehicle's remote-controlled locking mechanism to prevent his escape.
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The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that, along with 35 state attorneys general, it had levied a fine of $12 million against the company for deceptive business practices and for failing to secure sensitive customer data.
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A man who stole the identity of LifeLock co-founder Todd Davis won’t face criminal charges, police say, because LifeLock stepped in before the police could finish investigating the crime.
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A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pleading guilty in exchange for six months in jail and community service.
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The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said. Several cameras captured a "disoriented" Schantz walking alone from a bar toward the Mississippi River.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her.
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Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers. Under a federal rule taking effect next month, airlines can be fined up to $27,500 per passenger if planes are delayed three hours.
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A 27-year-old man convicted of dealing marijuana was arrested this morning, when police say he was smoking pot on his way home from prison.
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In what experts say could be a landmark decision, a Michigan school district has been ordered to pay $800,000 this week to a student who claimed the school did not do enough to protect him from years of bullying, some sexually tinged.
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A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with raping a woman and carving the word "Mine" on her stomach.
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Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.
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Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on "The Dating Game." "Oh yeah, I remember it quite clearly," said Jed Mills, the game-show contestant who sat next to Alcala in 1978. "He was creepy. Definitely creepy."
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Police said a North Pole woman accused in December of stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again.
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Police in Kentucky said a woman arrested for public intoxication faces an additional charge for squirting breast milk on a deputy at the jail.
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Acerbic [a·cer·bic]
adj. Sharp or biting, as in character or expression: The director occasionally allowed an
acerbic tone to an otherwise subtle dialogue.
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A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.
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Normal-weight women who drank 5 to 30 grams of alcohol daily gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming overweight or obese than either teetotalers or those who drank too much, according to a report in the March 8 Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Chicago-area businesses that make their money from tea say the conservative Tea Party political movement is complicating online publicity.
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A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP said.
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After 13 years and growing disillusionment, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, decided to leave Sea Org, the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running. Now, 56 years after its founding, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a Reformation.
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Lawyers are returning to court in North Carolina in a dispute over a tape purportedly showing two-time presidential candidate John Edwards in a sexual encounter.
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Monday, March 8
A Georgia man accused of killing two people is trying to get his murder charges dismissed by using the Census defense.
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According to police, a 27-year-old woman and her ex-husband were at her home late Thursday when she became upset after looking through his cell phone's call history.
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A long-running argument over a favorite McDonald's parking spot has resulted in an assault conviction. A Colorado jury on Friday convicted 52-year-old Vernon Brandt of Loveland of felony third-degree assault for a 2008 fight with 85-year-old Richard Albers.
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Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.
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A 48-year-old pedestrian struck and killed by an SUV this morning had just left a cardiac unit at Largo Medical Center to have a smoke against the advice of hospital staff and was apparently wearing a heart monitor, Largo police said.
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Oscar-winning actress Natalie Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Catalina Island, California, on Thanksgiving weekend, 1981. Altough the case is officially closed, questions linger. Wood's sister, Lana, has asked the Los Angeles County sheriff to reopen the case.
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When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month San Diego, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.
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The Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, and it has strong support for its bid from other journalists. The success of the John Edwards' story has Mr. Levine considering opening a Washington bureau to look for more dirt among politicians.
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Farrah Fawcett's absence from the traditional "in memoriam" segment of the Academy Awards broadcast has left some critics bemused. Film critic Roger Ebert was among those who questioned her absence, calling it a "major fail" and writing on Twitter: "They have a whole lot of 'splaining to do."
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Here is a list of the winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
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Domestic box-office totals through February for the most-honored films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
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Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga "The Hurt Locker."
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Quotes from Sunday night's 82nd annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Cablevision says WABC-TV's signal has been switched back on for its 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the Academy Awards telecast got under way.
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Sunday, March 7
The Florida Highway Patrol alleges a two-vehicle crash in Cudjoe Key, Florida, was caused by a female motorist trying to shave her private parts.
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Lawyers for an Orlando woman accused in her young daughter's death says the state should pay the cost of defending her.
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Actor and activist Danny Glover is calling on Academy Awards nominees and others in the film industry to not wear Hugo Boss suits at Sunday's awards ceremony.
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In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep.
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Customers of Cablevision Systems Corp in New York lost broadcast signals of local station WABC on Sunday morning as the cable operator and TV network were unable to reach agreement on a new contract.
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A historic metal forge that made ashtrays for the ill-fated German airship the Hindenburg and did custom work for Walt Disney has been destroyed by a fire.
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A pregnant bartender says she is fighting to keep her job at a gentlemen's club in New York. Jennifer Paviglianiti, of Centereach, N.Y., claims her employer, Café Royale, discriminated against her because of her pregnancy.
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The CEO of Tennessee's hospitality association is apologizing for sending an e-mail to a group of public figures that compares first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee.
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Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.
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Saturday, March 6
The Minnesota State Patrol says a 6-year-old girl wandered into freeway traffic near Minneapolis, where she was struck and killed by an SUV.
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A former model who earned public accolades six years ago for fighting off an attempted rape in New York's Central Park along with her dog fatally shot her boyfriend and set fire to the New Jersey home she was renting, then turned the gun on herself, authorities said.
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Police say a bear bit off a woman's fingers at a Wisconsin zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal.
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The principal of a South Los Angeles elementary school has apologized after some children carried photos of O.J. Simpson, RuPaul and Dennis Rodman in a parade celebrating Black History Month.
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A New Hampshire high school English teacher who allegedly e-mailed nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old male student was arrested Friday on a felony charge of indecent exposure and lewdness.
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A judge has ordered Mercedes-Benz USA LLC to pay $482,000 in damages and legal fees to a Wisconsin customer who was sold a defective car and not given a refund on time.
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A Navy captain was demoted because she berated and assaulted her crew, not because she led her guided missile cruiser on a drag-race with another U.S. warship in the Pacific, an investigation shows.
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General Motors on Friday offered to reinstate 661 US dealerships slated for closure under its massive restructuring plan, amid legal challenges from the dealers and pressure from lawmakers.
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New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, facing a harassment complaint by a male staffer, said Friday that he is stepping down from his seat with "a profound sense of failure." "I am guilty," Massa said in an interview with a Corning, N.Y., newspaper columnist.
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A Michigan boy reportedly has been suspended from school for curling his hand into the shape of a gun and pointing it at another student.
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A new congressional report released today says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama's budget plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8 trillion. That's $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration.
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A 28-year-old man was hospitalized after the go-cart he was driving collided with a pickup truck.
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The world's bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent.
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Officials in London said they paid $756 compensation to a jogger who was locked in a public toilet for 17 hours on Christmas Day.
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Friday, March 5
The owner of a suburban Chicago apartment house had his maintenance man set fire to the building, killing seven people including a newborn, because he wanted to cash in on a $250,000 insurance policy, prosecutors said Friday.
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Two New York City police officers are among five people charged with robbing about $1 million of perfume from a northern New Jersey warehouse.
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A former Ohio emergency room physician was convicted of aggravated murder Friday in the 2005 poisoning death of his wife.
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US golfer Tiger Woods has turned down a 75-million-dollar sponsorship offer from bookmakers Paddy Power, the Irish firm revealed on Friday.
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A 17-year-old reportedly twirling a handgun on his finger accidentally shot a 17-year-old friend Thursday, St. Petersburg police said.
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A go-cart wasn't much of a getaway vehicle for a South Carolina man. The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported that sheriff's deputies have arrested 29-year-old Edward Matthew Sweezy of Union after they stopped him last week at an intersection in Union.
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A Louisiana man shot by Lee Boyd Malvo before the criminal spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 has received a letter of apology from the convicted sniper.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are just too dangerous.
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Barbara Gabriel was dropped by The Woman's Group medical practice after she raised objections to posters that oppose the health care overhaul proposed by President Barack Obama.
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The president urges uneasy rank-and-file moderates and progressives to focus on the positives rather than their deep disappointment with parts of his massive health care overhaul.
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In the rush to save money in grim budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases. But the result — more convicted felons on the streets, not behind bars — has unleashed a backlash, and state officials now find themselves trying to maneuver between saving money and maintaining the public’s sense of safety.
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Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.
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Even by the standards of a city that celebrates extravagance, it was a spectacular shopping spree: In just two weeks early last year, an 11-year-old boy from Azerbaijan became the owner of nine waterfront mansions.
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New York Gov. David Paterson might have won some time when he received what has become rare support from influential black leaders as he tries to ride out allegations in two scandals that threaten his job and led to the resignation of three top staffers.
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Thursday, March 4
Authorities in Georgia said a man threw $76,656 from a duffel bag while fleeing sheriff's deputies on foot.
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Police say they are investigating whether a newborn was alive when she was dumped in a trash bin before her mother returned to a party in Southern California.
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The pilot of a Boeing 737 was in the cockpit, preparing to take off with 101 passengers, when police arrested him for flying with a fake pilot's license, investigators said.
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Cities, counties and states that haven't been very kind to illegal immigrants over the years are suddenly dusting off their welcome mats. With the 2010 census about to get under way, those undocumented residents will be worth a lot of money for the next few weeks.
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If customers know that the funeral home also can be the setting for other, happier activities, they might take some comfort in the place later when dark times come.
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A woman has been sentenced to life in prison for dousing a bikini dancer with gasoline and setting her on fire in Los Angeles.
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An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death with a hammer before dismembering her and scattering her body parts around the apartment complex where they lived has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
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Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade have been removed from their classrooms, a school district spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight after she refused to undergo a full body scan for religious reasons.
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A man freed from Guantanamo more than two years ago after he claimed he only wanted to go home and help his family is now a senior commander running Taliban resistance to the U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, two senior Afghan intelligence officials say.
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Funeral directors said they carried out the last wish of a British man who died from emphysema by placing signs on his hearse reading: "Smoking Killed Me."
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Four social workers were convicted Wednesday in a fraud case stemming from the starvation death of a disabled Philadelphia teenager whose emaciated body was found with maggot-infested bedsores.
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A laid-off Sacramento County sheriff's deputy is under arrest on suspicion of kidnapping and sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl.
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Already caught up in a scandal involving a close aide, embattled New York Governor David Paterson was charged on Wednesday by the state's ethics watchdog for unlawfully taking free baseball tickets to the 2009 World Series.
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Jeremy Renner seems surprisingly calm, considering he's going through a breakup with his girlfriend, moving into a new house he renovated and preparing to attend the Oscars as a best-actor nominee.
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Jack Nicklaus is going to appear at next month's Masters. He thinks Tiger Woods will as well. Nicklaus said Wednesday that "it would surprise me" if Woods did not return to competitive golf in time for the Masters, a tournament the embattled world No. 1 has won four times in his career.
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Tiger Woods' caddy is mad at his golfing superstar boss over a string of adulterous affairs and said he would have blown the whistle if he had known about them.
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This time, authorities say, Matthew David Lopez wasn't clowning around. The Tampa 19-year-old had been arrested last week after the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spotted him wearing a clown mask.
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The former mayor of Racine, Wis., has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to two charges stemming from an Internet sex sting.
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At least 15 Toyota drivers have complained to U.S. safety officials that their cars sped up by themselves even after being fixed under recalls for sticky gas pedals or floor mat problems, according to an Associated Press analysis.
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The family added a green bikini top and a blue sarong bottom, after the complaint.
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Wednesday, March 3
The Los Angeles Police Department has apologized to the family of Robert F. Kennedy for exhibiting the shirt, tie and jacket the senator wore when he was assassinated in 1968.
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A Staten Island mom who underwent bosom-boosting surgery got far more than she bargained for - "essentially four breasts," her lawyer claimed Tuesday.
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Prosecutors say they won't file criminal charges against four Northern California police officers seen in a videotaped beating of an unarmed college student.
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Authorities in central Georgia say a mother and father offered sex with their 14-year-old daughter in lieu of making payments on their minivan.
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Massachusetts police said a Rhode Island woman threw hot coffee on a parking enforcement officer for issuing her a $25 parking ticket.
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Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who piloted a US Airways flight during its emergency water landing on the Hudson River in January of last year, is retiring Wednesday.
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The head of the Russian Olympic Committee resigned Wednesday in the wake of the traditional powerhouse's worst performance at the Winter Games, news agencies reported.
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Air-traffic control tower employees at New York's Kennedy Airport are under federal investigation for apparently allowing a school-age child to direct pilots.
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A guy fell backwards on a cactus after a few drinks while playing a round of golf at a desert course. It took paramedics over three hours to remove the cactus before he could get into an ambulance and go to the hospital. [photo]
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An Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
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"The Hurt Locker" producer Nicolas Chartier on Tuesday was denied attendance at the upcoming Oscar ceremony for sending an e-mail to Academy Award voters urging them to name his movie as best film.
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Anachronism [a·nach·ro·nism]
n. One that is out of its proper, chronological, or historical order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time. [the sword is an
anachronism in modern warfare].
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A man hired to drive Naomi Campbell told police she assaulted him from the back seat of a luxury SUV on Tuesday before hopping out and running away, but the supermodel likely won't face criminal charges.
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An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother confirms that child services workers are investigating the presence of a stun gun at the Jackson family home, but he says the late singer's children were never exposed to the weapon.
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In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents.
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A Fort Lauderdale city employee has been suspended for leaving a noose in a work area.
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Rep. Charles Rangel is struggling to hold on to his powerful tax-writing committee chairmanship, with the House speaker declining to endorse him and other Democrats clearly nervous about retaining a leader who has been accused of ethical misconduct.
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Meals approved by Weight Watchers are going on sale at McDonald's in New Zealand, the companies said Wednesday, in a deal trumpeted as an enjoyable way to lose weight but that nutritionists criticize as a marketing ploy that doesn't promote healthy eating.
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The National Organization for Women's New York chapter called for embattled Gov. David Paterson's resignation Tuesday after a report alleging that he asked two staff members to call a woman who accused a governor's aide of assault.
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A Pittsburgh woman has been sentenced to six to 12 years in state prison for beating her 12-year-old son so severely with a belt that he needed a skin graft and painkillers during a two-week hospital stay.
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Tuesday, March 2
Anachronism [a·nach·ro·nism]
n. One that is out of its proper, chronological, or historical order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time. [the sword is an
anachronism in modern warfare].
A body was reported found in Lake Hodges near San Diego this afternoon during the search for missing teen Chelsea King.
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The Smithsonian Institution has rejected a donation of the suit O.J. Simpson wore when he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.
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A New York state appeals court has ordered a trial for a 44-year-old lawsuit between two companies that no longer exist.
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According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a bear ran in front of Ronald Roy Stanley while the 51-year-old was riding his motorcycle Monday night.
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A self-styled Hindu holy man and a British Airways flight attendant have been arrested in Delhi on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-dollar prostitution racket.
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World War Two produced Oscar winner "The Bridge over the River Kwai". The Vietnam war was immortalized on screen by Academy Award winners "The Deer Hunter" and "Platoon." Now the Iraq conflict has inspired "The Hurt Locker" - a low-budget, independently-made movie that is enjoying a level of industry success that has eluded other Hollywood films about America's ongoing military mission in the Middle East.
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A man serving eight years for vehicular homicide because of a fatal crash involving his Toyota Camry is hoping for exoneration amid concerns over unintended acceleration in some of Toyota's vehicles.
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A Lowell, Mass., school bus driver has been charged with raping an 8th grade passenger.
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Tiger Woods is back at home after a week of family counseling in Arizona and is trying to get into a routine that includes golf and fitness, a person with knowledge of his schedule said today.
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An English dog-owner has been fined after taking his pet for a stroll while driving next to him in his car.
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An Ohio woman taken to a maternity ward in her wedding dress became a newlywed and a new mom on the same day.
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Apple Inc. said it found more than a dozen serious violations of labor laws or Apple's own rules at its suppliers that needed immediate correction.
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An Oregon man's lawsuit against Clackamas County sheriff's deputies claims his First Amendment rights to display his middle finger were violated.
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An Arizona man who drove a stolen car through the gates of Luke Air Force Base is facing a murder charge after his teenage passenger was fatally shot by a security guard.
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Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday.
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Although Marie Osmond knew her son had problems, she had visited him often in Los Angeles, where he attended school at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and thought he was doing better, a friend tells PEOPLE.
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Gov Paterson personally directed two female staffers to reach out to a domestic violence victim who was pointing the finger at his right-hand man.
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Temporal [tem·po·ral]
adj. Relating to, or limited by time. Lasting only for a time; not eternal. Also: fleeting, passing, momentary, temporary, transient, short-lived.
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U.S. Border Patrol officials in Arizona said someone outfitted in scuba gear was spotted in a sewer along the U.S.-Mexico border with two bundles of marijuana.
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President Barack Obama will announce details of an estimated $6 billion program on Tuesday to generate jobs by providing incentives for Americans to make their homes more energy efficient, the latest step in his bid to convince Americans he can ease their economic woes.
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Rahm Emanuel is a Washington caricature, but many Democrats think Obama isn't listening to him nearly enough.
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In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the federal government - or any other government in the U.S. - must register its activities. It's the law.
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Top Democrats tore into one of their Republican counterparts Monday for blocking an extension of unemployment benefits that would provide assistance to millions of jobless Americans.
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Homeowners surrounding the now-shuttered Raytheon defense plant may not live long enough to see their neighborhood rid of the industrial pollution that's been creeping under parks, playgrounds and homes for decades.
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With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan today to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Maybe he was bored. Maybe he just likes prank phone calls. But for some reason, a Florida man allegedly called 911 more than 200 times in a recent 3-day span. Highlands County sheriff's deputies said Timothy Todd Lawrence spoke only to female dispatchers, and made sexually explicit remarks to one of them.
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ay Leno had been absent from the nation’s TV screens for less than a month, but he returned Monday night with renewed purpose.
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The U.S. Postal Service will move this month toward reducing mail delivery from six days a week to five, a change Postmaster General John Potter has said is critical to reducing its massive debt.
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A Los Angeles businessman who was being held on $1 million bail has agreed to take down an eight-story ad for a film, authorities said.
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Monday, March 1
SeaWorld employees who witnessed a killer whale attack its trainer said it happened suddenly and that the trainer was dead by the time they were able to pry her loose.
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Authorities said an overnight hotel guest who claimed a divine calling has been jailed after shooting up his room and placing an alarm clock in the microwave.
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Hazardous material crews were called to an IRS building in Ogden, Utah on Monday, less than two weeks after a man deliberately crashed his private plane into a Texas building that housed IRS workers, according to local reports.
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A teenager has died after jumping out of a moving ambulance on an interstate highway in South Carolina.
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A Utah woman who lost title to her house over an unpaid $68 dental bill has been given a reprieve.
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Two thousand federal transportation workers were furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
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A man long considered a person of interest in the disappearance of an exotic dancer was charged during the weekend with killing her, authorities said.
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Authorities in North Carolina say two toddlers left without adult supervision have died in a house fire, and their mother has been charged with murder.
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A teenage worker taking out the garbage at a Long Island doughnut shop fell into a sewage pit and died Sunday night.
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A registered sex offender was arrested today in connection with the disappearance of Chelsea King, a 17-year-old straight-A student who disappeared Thursday after going for a run in a San Diego park, police said.
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Philadelphia police say a pair of thieves made off with some expensive jewelry but left behind a 4-year-old boy.
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About 5,200 naked people have embraced each other on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera House for a photo shoot by photographer Spencer Tunick.
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It's a 28-word word law that federal prosecutors have used for more than two decades to send high-profile public officials and corporate executives, including former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling, to prison.
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After a Pittsburgh man dies in a storm when emergency help doesn't arrive, city officials order an investigation and reforms.
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An 11-year-old South Florida boy was fatally shot after he and a brother found their father's gun.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland has fascinating relics like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" mask. Soon it'll have space to showcase its interesting but less flashy artifacts.
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Sunday, February 28
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are crying foul over their arrests last year on a charge they failed to pay a California hotel bill, which they claim was the result of a series of mishaps and unfortunate events.
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President Barack Obama hasn't kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday.
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A popular Miami pastor will spend five years on probation instead of serving jail time after being convicted of stealing $10,000 in county grant money.
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Officials in Pennsylvania say two teenage girls who were struck and killed by a high-speed Amtrak train committed suicide.
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An uproar has erupted in Hollywood concerning one of the producers of the acclaimed film The Hurt Locker, who has admitted to directly lobbying Oscar voters.
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A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up. [D]
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The teenage son of famed Osmond family singer Marie Osmond committed suicide by jumping from a building in downtown Los Angeles, her representative confirmed on Saturday.
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Labor union's high hopes for major gains under President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress have dimmed, raising fresh doubts about union leverage even in the best of political times. This wasn't what unions expected a year ago after spending more than $400 million to help elect Obama and fellow Democrats.
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Jaycee Dugard and her family have taken the first step to sue the state of California for lapses officials made while she and her daughters were allegedly held captive by a convicted sex offender.
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While the Vancouver Olympics aren't finished, the medal races are — and in spectacular fashion for North Americans.
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Authorities say a baby and a toddler have found bound, gagged and left on a bedroom floor in Southern California, and the childrens' father is being investigated for attempted murder and torture in the case.
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President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the main U.S. counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.
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When Oprah Winfrey recently asked her former personal chef what he wanted for his 50th birthday, Art Smith's first thought was a new treadmill. Aim higher, she told him.
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He has been called the NBA's greatest player and one of the country's top pitchmen. Now Michael Jordan is ready for a new title: NBA owner.
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Saturday, February 27
A spokesman for an Irish airline said a passenger who won nearly $13,620 on a scratch card ate the instant lottery ticket when told he could not cash it in until the plane landed.
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Marie Osmond's teenaged son, Michael Blosil, has killed himself by leaping to his death Friday in Los Angeles, reports Entertainment Tonight. Michael is one of eight children Osmond has raised with ex-husband Brian Blosil.
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A New York judge has thrown out an age-discrimination suit filed by an 85-year-old woman who sold beer at Mets games until she was replaced with a 75-year-old.
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The stalking began with bursts of phone calls — 10 or 15 in a day, about once a year, from an old college acquaintance. Then, flowers and unwanted visits, an anti-harassment order, an arrest — and bail.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of "The Hurt Locker" who sent multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the Oscar best-picture race and "not a $500 million film" — an obvious reference to close-competitor "Avatar."
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A former Georgetown high school teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old student.
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A mother and her son were charged Friday in the death of the woman's 23-year-old mentally disabled daughter who investigators said was repeatedly raped, beaten and scalded and had her face pushed into feces.
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More than 2,000 people watched killer whales perform Saturday at SeaWorld for the first time since one of the orcas dragged a trainer to her death underwater in front of horrified spectators three days ago.
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The case of a small-town pediatrician accused of molesting more than 100 young patients has created a wrenching dilemma for the alleged victims' parents and relatives.
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Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday he won't step down as chairman of the powerful House tax-writing committee after being admonished by an ethics panel for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean. The public rebuke of one of the Democrats' most outspoken leaders posed more woes for a party that had vowed to end a "culture of corruption."
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Sports drink maker Gatorade has ended its marketing deals with Tiger Woods, joining the list of sponsors to drop the superstar golfer in the wake of a sex scandal.
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Friday, February 26
Passengers on a Pinnacle Airlines flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta said the plane was grounded due to a fight between flight attendants.
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A homeless, mentally ill woman has been released from a Louisiana jail after a clerical mistake kept her there for six months.
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A German robber held up the same bank in Hamburg twice within 24 hours just a week after being released from jail - for the same crime.
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Police say sheriff's deputies were turned away from Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas home while trying to collect a $500,000 court judgment.
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Police in North Carolina said a woman opened a package she believed to be her new computer and discovered 45 pounds of marijuana worth $35,000.
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The New York Police Department is investigating why a Bronx police placard was displayed in comedian Jerry Seinfeld's car. Seinfeld spokeswoman Elizabeth Clark Zoia on Wednesday said the performer wasn't aware of the parking placard, which belonged to Seinfeld's longtime driver, a retired police officer.
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An 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 has been sentenced to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a Southern California medical office. Doris Thompson thanked a judge Wednesday for not sending her to Los Angeles County jail, which she doesn't like,
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A New York realty group is suing the owners of a floor at the Gramercy Park Hotel for installing an "ugly" Ikea kitchen at the property.
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Aesthetic [aes·thet·ic]
adj. 1. Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste. 2. Characterized by a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
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The Associated Press has learned that the House ethics committee has concluded that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel knowingly accepted Caribbean trips in violation of House rules that forbid hidden financing by corporations.
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A 37-year-old Salt Lake City woman on Tuesday admitted hitting her husband in the head with a hammer after blindfolding him and promising a "surprise."
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Police said the mother of an elementary school student drank a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor before brandishing a sword in her child's school. The woman, 32, apparently intended to confront the parents of another child who had been in a spitting match with her child the previous day.
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Michael Douglas' drug-dealing son tried to sell a Manhattan court a sob story worthy of a Hollywood script - that his famous family made him a smack-addicted wreck.
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From the time she visited SeaWorld as a 9-year-old, Dawn Brancheau was hooked. From then on, her family said, she was determined to be an animal trainer when she grew up.
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Indiana police said they arrested an alleged drunk driver who drove away from a gas station with the nozzle and hose still attached to his vehicle.
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Democratic officials are telling The Associated Press that New York Gov. David Paterson is not seeking election.
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As Angelina Jolie continues her working-mom trip to Europe, she has made a point of family bonding - not only with her six kids and partner Brad Pitt, but with her long-estranged dad, too.
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An 89-year-old British man said he was outraged when employees at a store asked him to remove his flat cap because of security concerns.
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Italy's state-owned television broadcaster has dropped a popular chef for sharing a recipe with viewers to cook cat.
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