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On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.
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South Texas emergency managers working to ensure the area is prepared for a hurricane are worried that federal officials will cause disastrous delays by insisting on...
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A winery spokeswoman says California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi has died. He was 94.
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President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S. opposition party to appeasers...
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Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company’s board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.’s $47.5...
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Scientists are preparing for “seven minutes of terror” as a Nasa spacecraft makes a nail-biting descent to the surface of Mars.
The Phoenix lander needs to...
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Stocks have ended the week narrowly mixed following another spike in oil prices and a surprise jump in home construction.
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Treasury prices fell Friday after rising oil caused investors to worry about rising inflation’s erosion of fixed-income valuations.
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An anti-war Democratic congressman is demanding to know why there were uniformed Defense Department personnel watching House proceedings from a public gallery Thursday,...
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Stocks gave up early gains to trade mixed Friday as investors balanced concerns about rising oil prices with a surprise jump in home construction.
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AP, Easton
A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.
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AP, Columbus
In comic book terms, it might be on the scale of a merger of the X-Men and the Justice League of America: two collections combining to form what’s believed to be...
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Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of...
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AP, Washington
Federal health authorities are directing a Pasadena, Texas, company to shut down and recall all its dried smoked catfish steaks and other smoked seafood produced since...
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AP, Jonesboro
A Snickers bar did in one Arkansas burglar. Police in Jonesboro said Brian D. Bass, 39, left the half-eaten candy bar on a counter at the Cato Animal Hospital during a...
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AP, Fresno
A central California biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison...
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Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
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It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants...
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Hillary, today in Rapid City, South Dakota, defended Obama from President Bush’s apparent comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports.
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AP, Mclean
The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new...
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An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago appears to be headed back to jail.
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Some 350 people evacuated their homes in northern Japan to escape poisonous fumes released Thursday by a neighbor who killed himself by mixing detergent and other...
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At least four people killed themselves Friday by inhaling fumes from a detergent mixed with other chemicals amid a wave of similar suicides that has reportedly claimed...
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Shumilov looked at activity in the Earth’s geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found that it grouped into three seasonal peaks every year: one from March to...
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AP, Dallas
The fourth suicide this year among mentally ill patients treated at the Dallas VA Medical Center has led the hospital to close its psychiatric ward to new patients, and...
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The body of a teenage girl was found hanging in the woods of a Welsh village Tuesday, and authorities said it was the 17th young suicide in just over a year near one...
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Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake conceded Wednesday that the agency must do more to reach out to Guard and Reserve troops who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan about...
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More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new...
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The Education Ministry will restore textbook references suggesting that Japan’s wartime military could have played a role in forcing Okinawans to commit mass...
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In a sharp contrast to the suicide rates among U.S. teens during 1990-2003, where they fell by 28% have risen by 76% from 2003 to 2004. As per a report, this has been...
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Kashmir has registered a rise in suicide cases, over the past two years because of varied reasons ranging from unemployment to marital conflict.
A total of 61 persons...
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Among women, Asian Americans have some of the highest rates of suicide in the nation. A professor who has been studying suicide since her own sister took her life links...
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There is plethora of suicide attempts in Pakistan and in both the cases the reason has been the same- forced obedience.
A 2-year analysis of all such reports in a...
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At a time when Russia is seeking a greater role on the world stage, a latest embarrassment for Russia’s military comes on the scenes. The Soldiers’ Mothers human...
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India is shining and poverty and hunger are compelling poor Indians to commit suicides. On Monday, the number 13 made a history as the BSE Sensex crossed 13k mark. That...
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According to Barry Labowitz, Director of National Institute of Mental Health, depression is crippling most among the elderly people causing their inability to manage...
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World Health Organisation records show that after every successful suicide there are about 20 cases of attempt to suicide. Undoubtedly committing suicide is an `extreme...
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It’s a case of a sensitive matter becoming all the more sensitive following its revelation. The South Australian opposition has protested against the number of suicides...
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Dr. Robert Lehmberg poses in a hallway at the Little Rock, Ark., Veterans Hospital Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Lehmberg says he has battled depression and long considered suicide “an exit strategy if absolutely necessary.” About 300 or more U.S. doctors...
