BAGHDAD – A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The grisly discovery came as Iraq’s Sunni parliament speaker called on the nation’s Shiites …
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Running from home … and the law. A 10-year-old runaway armed with a rock allegedly tried to rob a Tennessee convenience store but came away empty-handed after a shocked clerk told her to leave, WSMV.com reported. Police said the girl entered a Mapco Express on Monday night, …
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LONDON – A nurse was convicted Monday of killing four elderly patients with insulin overdoses in English hospitals in 2002. Colin Norris, 32, was also convicted of attempting to kill a fifth patient. He will be sentenced Tuesday. Police began investigating following the death of Ethel Hall, 86, at Leeds …
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MECCA, Calif. – A freight train derailed in the Southern California desert and two tanker cars full of chemicals caught fire, sending up a cloud of fumes and forcing home evacuations, authorities said. No one was injured when 28 of the Union Pacific train’s cars derailed Monday night about 140 …
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Planned Parenthood of Idaho has apologized after an employee encouraged a telephone donation aimed at aborting black babies. Officials for the group said last month that the employee made a “serious mistake” encouraging the donation, the Idaho Statesman reports. But Planned Parenthood criticized the publication that made the call — …
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HOUSTON – Now that the space station’s new robot is fully assembled, astronauts prepared to attach the giant machine directly to the orbiting outpost for the first time on Tuesday. Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Robert Behnken went on a spacewalk Monday to add a tool belt and two cameras that …
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LOS ANGELES – Jeri Ryan and her husband, French chef Christophe Eme, have a new family member. The 40-year-old actress gave birth Sunday to daughter Gisele in Los Angeles, her publicist David Lust announced. “Both parents are thrilled. Jeri is resting comfortably and Christophe is playing the part of proud …
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SAN DIEGO – A San Diego-based Marine major was reunited on Saturday with one of his closest war buddies — a 2-year-old dog named Nubs. Nubs greeted Maj. Brian Dennis at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station when the fighter pilot returned from Iraq. It was the first time the two …
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CONCORD, N.H. – Before colon cancer took her life, Michelle Morse tried not to let it take over. “I just don’t want to be known as ‘the cancer girl!”‘ she wrote in her journal last April. “It’s just not me.” The aspiring teacher continued to attend Plymouth State University full-time …
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned the tables on European critics of tough U.S. tactics in the war on terror Monday, maintaining that intelligence gathered by the CIA has saved European as well as American lives. Responding for the first time in detail to the outcry over reports …
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