BELLFLOWER, Calif. – The daughter of an 85-year-old man is in jail for allegedly killing her father and hiding his body in a Bellflower backyard. The 58-year-old woman was arrested after the body was found Monday afternoon. Los Angeles sheriff’s Deputy Derrick Thompson says the woman’s father had been missing …
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BERLIN – Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the Nazis’ long-ignored gay victims, a monument that also aims to address ongoing discrimination by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing. The memorial — a sloping gray concrete slab on the edge of Berlin’s Tiergarten park — echoes …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old. The scientists, who announced their findings Wednesday, used a radio observatory in New Mexico and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in space to identify when the supernova, …
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The big news on Wednesday night’s “American Idol” wasn’t that Syesha Mercado was given her walking papers. Please. While the girl has put up a decent fight of late, her fate was sealed weeks ago. It wasn’t that Fantasia performed or that Paula both looked good and made sense (a …
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HONG KONG – On the eve of Friday’s Olympic torch relay through Hong Kong, officials allowed actress Mia Farrow into the Chinese territory so she could bash China’s cozy ties with Sudan, although they had earlier kicked out pro-Tibet activists. It’s all part of Hong Kong’s delicate balancing act — …
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VIENNA, Austria – Iran has stymied the latest U.N. attempts to probe allegations that it tried to make nuclear arms, dismissing U.S. and other intelligence purportedly proving such efforts as bogus, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency — the U.N. nuclear watchdog — will …
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ROCK ISLAND, Tenn. – One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket. Hill, 42, got into a crash after turning into the path of an oncoming car …
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. – The principal of Naperville Central High School, Jim Caudill, has found himself in hot water for using plagiarized passages in a speech he delivered earlier this week. The lifted passages came from a speech a 1997 Naperville Central graduate delivered eleven years ago. That former student is …
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BAGHDAD – A homicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi police and U.S.-allied Sunni fighters Monday north of Baghdad, killing four people, officials said. The blast occurred about 200 yards away from the house of the head of the local awakening group, which has joined forces …
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FLORENCE, S.C. – A lawyer for a South Carolina teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school says a psychiatrist has determined his client is competent to stand trial. Defense attorney Michael Meetze says in court papers filed Thursday that the psychiatrist examined 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger in jail. …
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