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Halloween night 2003, Chris Jenkins, a popular University of Minnesota student, left a bar drunk. He wasn’t seen again until several months later when his body was found floating in the Mississippi River. At first his death was considered an...
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With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own...
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The latest crash tests by the insurance industry raise safety questions about small pickups, which are drawing more interest because they get better mileage than larger...
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A veterans group critical of the war in Iraq accuses John McCain of wanting to occupy Iraq indefinitely, against the wishes of the country’s leaders, in an ad...
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Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.
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The State Department has proposed shifting about two-thirds of its proposed aid to Pakistan’s anti-terrorism programs to help the key U.S. ally upgrade its aging...
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A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday.
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The Hong Kong-based operator of a container ship that struck a bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indicted for allegedly doctoring paperwork in...
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More than 30 actors dissatisfied with stalled contract talks said Wednesday they have joined to campaign for seats on the Screen Actors Guild’s board of...
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Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm.
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A doctor charged with molesting eight patients was ordered held on $4 million bail Wednesday as a prosecutor said accusations from seven more patients had surfaced.
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Leaders of a church destroyed on Sept. 11 have surrendered land needed to rebuild the World Trade Center site in a $20 million deal with the government.
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The bubble might have burst for off-Broadway’s “Gazillion Bubbles Show.” Someone has stolen the show’s specialized soapy bubble solution, which...
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The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued...
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Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company’s failed...
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Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that flooded some low-lying areas but spared...
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Barack Obama is going for the gold.
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Microsoft Corp. says the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations is leaving the company.
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Opponents of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military denounced it as cruel and unpatriotic Wednesday. Supporters insisted it...
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A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than...
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A pack of enormous bears searching for food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia’s Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners...
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Indonesia executed a man convicted of killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers, his lawyer said Friday.
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Indonesia has executed a man for killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings.
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled against a convicted child murderer who had sued Germany over threats from a police officer who was trying to locate his...
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Kevin G. Johns Jr. was in prison for murdering his uncle when he killed a fellow inmate and then, a year later, strangled another.
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Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man.
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Allowing a convicted killer to get a sex-change operation would pose insurmountable safety and security problems for the state prison system, the Massachusetts...
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Cogon grass can seem harmless _ even beautiful _ but forestry experts in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama warn it’s a killer.
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The Supreme Court has refused to review a 30-year prison sentence for a teen who was 12 when he killed his grandparents in South Carolina.
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The new commissioner of the state’s prison system said Tuesday he plans to re-examine the case of a convicted killer suing the Department of Correction to try to...
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A former female wrestler who terrorized Mexico City as the “Little Old Lady Killer” was sentenced to 759 years in jail on Monday for killing 16 elderly...
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The man who killed Kitty Genovese in New York City in a case that became a textbook example of urban apathy has been denied parole.
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A nurse convicted of killing four elderly patients in northern England with insulin overdoses was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
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When marauding Vikings decided to settle down they usually “went native,” marrying local girls and blending in. Invading honey bees may be doing the same.
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Acting to protect her dog, 80-year-old Martha Smith killed a mountain lion at her home along French Creek near Fairburn. She missed with her first shot, went into the...
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The girlfriend of a man dubbed the “preppie killer” pleaded guilty Thursday to selling cocaine in a deal that sends her to a drug rehabilitation center.
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OUT OF THE PAST: Mitt Romney is being dogged by the case of a convicted killer who was charged in the recent deaths of a young couple.
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Mitt Romney did everything he could while governor of Massachusetts to avoid having a sticky “Willie Horton” criminal case cloud his future presidential...
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The so-called “Preppie Killer” plans to offer a psychiatric defense to fight drug charges that could send him to prison for life, his lawyer told a judge...
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