VANCOUVER, British Columbia – An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy’s father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents …
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JUNEAU, Alaska – The lawyers aren’t clearing their calendars just yet, but the oil industry is bracing for some courtroom battles to maintain its stake in Alaska’s oil-rich fields now that the Interior Department has listed polar bears as a threatened species. About 15 percent of the nation’s oil is …
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BAGHDAD – The U.S. military on Friday blamed Al Qaeda in Iraq for a double homicide bombing that killed at least 36 people during a wedding procession through a crowd of people cheering the bride and groom in a town northeast of Baghdad. The attack Thursday evening came amid heightened …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – An overloaded ferry capsized off the coast of southern Haiti, killing at least 11 people, U.N. and Haitian authorities said Sunday. U.N. peacekeeping mission spokesman David Wimhurst said most of the 100 people aboard the vessel were able to swim to safety. The boat sank after taking …
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“American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is reportedly in talks to take over Larry King’s talk show. Sources close to Seacrest told MediaBistro.com’s Fishbowl L.A. that he’s in “talks” to take over for Larry King on CNN, but added it’s unlikely it would happen because Seacrest has so many lucrative jobs …
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A 6-year-old girl from East Harlem, N.Y., died Sunday afternoon after her foster mother allegedly gave her a fentanyl pain patch to treat her neck pain, reports 7online.com. When Taylor Webster first complained to her foster mother, Joanne Alvarez, 54, of neck pain, Alvarez gave the girl Baby Motrin. When …
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LOS ANGELES – Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me!” has died. He was 86. Martin, who went …
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This is a rush transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” April 30, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: A FOX News poll released today shows that Senator Clinton is leading Senator Obama by three points nationally, and when it comes …
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LOS ANGELES – A judge who is waiting for a state Supreme Court decision on whether he will preside over Phil Spector’s second murder trial went ahead Thursday and scheduled it to begin in September. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said a trial date is needed, whether …
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JERUSALEM – A corruption investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is threatening to force his resignation. Here are some of the previous scandals and investigations that have rocked Israel’s politics: — KATSAV: Israeli President Moshe Katsav forced to resign in June 2007 under cloud of rape, sexual harassment and …
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