BANG NIENG, Thailand – A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie “Alexander.” Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand’s prime tourist destinations. The massive waves, which killed 5,000 and left nearly 4,000 missing …
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LOS ANGELES – A mistrial in the Notorious B.I.G. (search) wrongful death case means his family won’t get any immediate answers about his slaying but can file a new lawsuit seeking to link the unsolved 1997 killing to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart corruption scandal. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie …
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Eight Navy SEALs (search) and eight members of the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment known as the Night Stalkers (search) were aboard the Chinook helicopter that crashed in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military said. It was the deadliest single blow to American forces fighting an …
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NEW YORK – Stocks rose Tuesday, with retailer shares jumping after Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) reported better-than-expected preliminary June sales, but oil prices limited gains on concerns that higher fuel costs would shrink corporate profits. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average (search) advanced 68.36 points, or 0.66 percent, to end at …
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LAS VEGAS – Australian Joseph Hachem (search) prevailed in a colossal dual Saturday at the World Series of Poker’s main event, winning $7.5 million and snatching the game’s greatest crown in the longest final table in the tournament’s history. Only six hands into the two-man battle at the end, Hachem …
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HAVANA – Cuban President Fidel Castro (search) said in a speech published Friday that he’s honored to be a friend of Elian Gonzalez (search), the boy at the center of an international custody dispute five years ago. “I have the privilege to be his friend,” Castro said Thursday night during …
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Here it is, the last Vesterblog! Starting today (Friday), I’m going on maternity leave for a year. I’d like to thank my boss, Fox News Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel, Roger Ailes (search), for so generously giving me the time off to go home and be a mommy. …
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LOS ANGELES – Actor Tom Sizemore (search) missed a probation violation hearing Tuesday after checking into a live-in drug rehabilitation program. If the court finds Sizemore violated probation, he could be sent to prison for up to three years. The actor was ordered into drug treatment after pleading guilty in …
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In his 2004 documentary “Super Size Me,” filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (search) ate at McDonald’s for a month and gained 25 pounds. Maybe he didn’t eat there long enough. Another Morgan — Merab Morgan of Henderson, N.C. — has lost 33 pounds after more than two months on a McDonald’s-only diet. …
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WASHINGTON – It may take a village to raise a child. Or it may take a family. But it definitely takes two senators to argue the merits of either. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (search), D-N.Y., and Sen. Rick Santorum (search), R-Pa., had just enough time Tuesday in a Senate hallway …
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