DOVER, N.H. – A businessman was convicted Wednesday of faking his disappearance after a car crash two years ago to draw attention to his long-shot congressional campaign. A jury in Dover convicted Gary Dodds of falsifying evidence, causing a false public alarm and leaving the scene of the April 2006 …
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TINLEY PARK, Ill. – Rhoda McFarland whispered a final one-word plea to 911 before she was discovered by the gunman robbing her suburban Chicago Lane Bryant store and he opened fire: “Hurry.” Tinley Park authorities said the 42-year-old store manager, who was among the five women bound and fatally shot …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom’s religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza …
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BAGHDAD – Two homicide bombers, one apparently armed with a grenade as well as an explosive vest, killed at least three people and wounded 17 as worshippers left a Shiite mosque after Friday prayers in the northwestern city of Tal Afar. The explosions came on a day when the U.S. …
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LA PAZ, Bolivia – President Evo Morales declared a U.S. Embassy security officer to be an “undesirable person” on Monday after reports that the officer asked an American scholar and 30 Peace Corps volunteers to pass along information about Cubans and Venezuelans working in Bolivia. It was not immediately clear …
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WATERBURY, Conn. – A tractor-trailer carrying canisters of volatile hydrogen gas crashed on a major East Coast route early Tuesday, forcing responders to close the road and evacuate dozens of homes. Compressed hydrogen gas leaked from some of the containers after the truck rolled on its side in the median …
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WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama found themselves in an airtight duel over delegates Wednesday, each laying claim to a majority of the Super Tuesday spoils. John McCain enjoyed a clearer victory Tuesday night on the GOP side, as he took wins coast-to-coast and declared himself the front-runner. By …
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LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected a motion to move the Britney Spears conservatorship case to U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez said in Tuesday’s ruling that the lawyer who claims to represent Spears is not her attorney and has no authority to act on her …
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SPOKANE, Wash. – An apparent meteor streaked through the sky over the Pacific Northwest early Tuesday, drawing reports of bright lights and sonic booms in parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Although a witness reported seeing the object strike the Earth in a remote part of Adams County, in southeast …
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Actress Eva Mendes is getting “professional support” for some “personal issues,” her rep said Friday on the heels of a report saying she’s in rehab battling a substance abuse problem. “Eva has been working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off …
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