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Alicia Sacramone’s foot slipped off the 4-inch-wide tightrope that is the balance beam, her body wobbling and shaking as she fought to stay upright. Another slip, this time in the floor exercise, sent her tumbling onto her back.
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A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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A federal judge ruled Friday that the city of Vallejo could push forward with its bankruptcy case, rejecting a legal challenge by police and firefighters unions.
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The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk...
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Unlike his Republican opponent, Democrat Barack Obama is still raising money for his presidential campaign, and he turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help.
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Authorities in New Jersey are searching a freight-train car after a woman reported that a Federal Express package containing a bomb might be aboard.
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Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.
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“I kill for God. I listen to God,” a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree...
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A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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A judge has sentenced an Ohio teenager convicted in the torture beating of a mentally disabled woman to 44 years in prison.
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A federal appeals court Friday refused to dismiss fraud and theft charges against celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht and said he can be tried again _ but ordered the...
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The White House on Friday disputed an assertion in a new book by Bob Woodward that President Bush was slow to react to escalating attacks in Iraq, forcefully arguing...
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AP, Wheaton
Police say a man who wrested a gun from a police officer and took a dozen hostages in a bank in suburban Chicago has died after shooting himself in the head.
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John McCain and Sarah Palin got a rousing welcome Friday to the final two months of the presidential campaign, stressing themes of a strong America and concern about...
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As a television draw, John McCain was every bit the equal of Barack Obama.
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Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials have failed and the union says a strike is set to begin at 12:01...
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President Bush touched up on his Civil War history Friday, touring the battleground of Gettysburg, the site of one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War.
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Soybean prices tumbled Friday after the dollar continued its rally against the euro, giving investors more reasons to sell commodities that were bought as a hedge...
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The government may soon step in to provide a financial boost to mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.
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A suspect took at least one person hostage in a bank on Friday, forcing a standoff with police and prompting the evacuation of nearby office buildings and businesses,...
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Another deadline will pass Thursday without a new emergency siren system going into service around the Indian Point nuclear power plant, just 35 miles north of midtown...
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Wall Street was mostly lower Tuesday as downbeat news from the financial sector raised more concerns about the ongoing impact of the credit crisis on the economy....
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Another co-defendant has pleaded guilty in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas.
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Another co-defendant has taken a plea in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas.
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One man got stabbed. Another got shot in the chest. A 6-year-old boy was temporarily blinded when he was spray-painted in the face.
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A court has convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995. Another four were acquitted.
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Hollywood loves a good sequel, but here’s one it could do without: Another union strike just months after the town got up and running again from a devastating...
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Another human foot was found Wednesday on a British Colombia shoreline, the second this week and the sixth within a year in a bizarre mystery that has confounded...
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Another win, another dismal crowd for the Tampa Bay Rays,Matt Garza pitched a career-high eight innings, leading first-place Tampa Bay over the Texas Rangers 5-3...
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Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and killing people even as they cower in...
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Another week, another rumbling train of tornadoes that obliterates entire city blocks, smashing homes to their foundations and killing people even as they cower in...
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Another night, another botched home run call by an umpire. This time it didn’t cost the team any runs as Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto got an inside-the-park...
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Another night, another botched home run call by an umpire.This time it didn’t cost the team any runs as Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto got an inside-the-park...
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One journalist’s bid to report mass murder in South Korea in 1950 was blocked by his British publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly...
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At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was...
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Tang Xiaomin had just left her fourth-floor apartment to buy groceries when the building started crumbling around her. An upstairs neighbor was thrown against the...
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Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar’s cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has reached that the U.N. warned on Wednesday of a “second wave...
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Chinese state media says nearly 26,000 people are still buried in earthquake debris. Another 14,000 are missing after the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan...
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An exit poll finds two in 10 voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary say Barack Obama shares the views of his fiery former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “a...
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