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Carefree children in alpine costumes danced around a maypole, and parents crowded a churchyard to snap photos of sons and daughters making their first communion.But an unmistakable melancholy settled Thursday over this town where police say Josef Fritzl...
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In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won’t be at his...
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a...
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Gustav is now a dangerous Category 3 storm with winds near 115 mph.
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Listening to Vladimir Putin regarding the alleged American provocation of the Georgia conflict, I cannot help but question if there is some truth to his accusations. ...
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AP, New York
He was a respected former NYPD detective and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who struggled in recent months with inoperable liver cancer.
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AP, Portland
The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.
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AP, Burbank
A small plane overshot a runway and crashed into some power lines near Bob Hope Airport. Three people inside the aircraft were injured, authorities said.
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Gustav gained strength to become a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph.
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AP, Cleveland
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be among the speakers at a memorial service Saturday for the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of the Cleveland...
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When Wikileaks opened for business, the site proclaimed its mission to publish secretive documents from
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Socialite heiress Paris Hilton made his boyfriend Benji Madden wear a T-shirt with the word “Obey” written on it and paraded him in front of paparazzi to defuse...
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AP, Pittsburgh
A co-defendant in the bizarre bank robbery plot that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man more than five years ago will plead guilty next...
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Technology is supposed to make life easier, but it doesn’t seem that way when you’re struggling to wrangle 289 new e-mail messages, dealing with a...
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An unusual phenomenon has recently appeared on Craigslist’s Denver Web site. Sex-wanted ads spiked this week, which happens to coincide with the Democratic...
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“BJ McCombs was severely burned in a fire at the age of 18 months,” explains the support group set up on MySpace after the site removed photos...
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McCain counters Obama’s message of change with a change up of his own...
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Husband and wife discuss the possible consequences of his VP pick. This could mean the end of the sexual wars?
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If you watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, you have seen the Promised Land.
It is different from the famished land of today where the big-booted reverse march...
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AP, Burbank
A small airplane crashed into a parked car near Bob Hope Airport Friday evening, seconds after a woman inside the vehicle saw the plane coming and fled.
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AP, Medford
A train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities...
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In the headline of a July 16 story about the case of a woman held captive last year, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a fifth person had pleaded guilty to...
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A fifth person has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman who authorities say was held captive in West Virginia last...
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AP, Logan
Two defendants in a case involving the torture of a young woman in West Virginia have received the maximum sentences possible.Forty-six-year-old Karen Burton and...
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AP, Logan
A fourth defendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young black woman who authorities say was held captive last summer for...
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AP, Charleston
A black woman who said she was held captive and tortured last summer is relieved that at least one of the seven people indicted in the case will be punished for a hate...
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AP, Ventura
A teenager who pleaded no contest to torturing and mutilating the pet tortoise of an autistic boy has been sentenced to spend time in jail, fined and ordered to give up...
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AP, Charleston
Hundreds of people marched through the state capital on Saturday to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six white people charged in the beating, torture...
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AP, Mae Sot
Thet Oo says his military interrogators in Myanmar kicked him in the head until he blacked out, shackled his polio-ridden legs, and then threw him in a tiny, dark cell...
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AP, Logan
Charges against a sixth white suspect in the alleged rape, assault and torture of a black woman were sent to the grand jury Thursday.Karen Burton, 46, is charged with...
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AP, Logan
Ever since police arrested six whites in the rape and torture of a black woman, Claude Williams has been accepting apologies.Williams, a black security guard at the...
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AP, Logan
The list of horrors allegedly endured by a woman at the hands of six people in a remote trailer grew during the suspects’ court hearings _ leaving the...
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AP, Charleston
Amended charges were filed Tuesday against five of six white defendants accused of torturing a black woman for days in rural West Virginia, the graphic details of which...
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AP, Logan
Some of the six people accused of torturing a woman for days in rural West Virginia are expected to face additional kidnapping and sexual assault charges, the county...
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AP, Cora
Civil rights leaders told a packed church on Saturday to have patience in the legal process and to pray for the recovery of a black woman who was allegedly tortured and...
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AP, Charleston
Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a...
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AP, Big Creek
Charlotte and Roy Williams tried to avoid their neighbors, a rowdy bunch who blared music for days on end. But the noise may have been the least of their...
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Barbaric Taliban era of Afghanistan presents a horrible picture of the Muslim world, where the women were abused mentally and physically, they didn’t have access...
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