A homicide bomber blew himself up in a truck at a traffic police checkpoint in Russia’s volatile Ingushetia region, Russian agencies told Reuters on Friday. Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency, quoting the source to Reuters, said policemen were killed in the attack, but did not say how many. The attack took …
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Authorities are searching for a 17-year-old boy who disappeared while swimming in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The Coast Guard and the St. Johns County Fire and Rescue Department launched the search for Jarrel Stewart on Monday. A body found early Tuesday on the beach near …
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PERUGIA, Italy – A bloody footprint found at the house where a British student was killed in Italy was wrongly attributed to one of the defendants in the case, a forensic expert for the defense testified at the murder trial Friday. The footprint was found on a bathroom rug in …
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McALLEN, Texas – A federal jury convicted a man of kidnapping and conspiracy on Thursday in a case authorities said showed he was member of a south Texas kidnapping ring controlled by the Mexican Gulf cartel. Luis Avila Hernandez was convicted on charges related to the August 2008 kidnapping of …
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Health officials say contaminated heroin may have caused at least a dozen recent cases of anthrax including six deaths in Glasgow. The rising toll has prompted Health Protection Scotland, the national agency for protecting the public from infectious and environmental hazards, to issue a warning to all heroin users to …
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EASTON, Pa. – Jurors in eastern Pennsylvania have convicted a man of a triple murder that authorities called a “gangland hit.” The Northampton County panel deliberated for a little more than three hours Monday before convicting 22-year-old Ali Elijah Davis of Freemansburg of first-degree murder in the November 2007 deaths …
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – A Long Island woman has pleaded not guilty to abusing family pets in front of her children. Investigators say 42 dead animals were later found buried in her yard. Defense attorney James Saladino told a judge Thursday he’s considering an insanity defense for Sharon McDonough. McDonough also …
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LAS VEGAS – A 29-year-old convicted bombmaker from Nicaragua has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a hot dog stand vendor outside a Las Vegas casino in 2007. Porfirio Duarte-Herrera also was sentenced Thursday to 19 to 50 years for attempted murder with use of a …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Keeping the Faith President Obama ended his North Carolina vacation by meeting and praying with evangelist Billy Graham for the first time. Graham has counseled all presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower. The meeting lasted 30 minutes and a White House spokesman said …
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This is a parking garage of ghoulishness: Creepy on every damn level. It’s a video of President Obama at a Washington fundraiser last week. He’s talking health care (as usual), when he brings up a dead campaign worker. Well, actually he brings up himself. Pay attention, not just to him, …
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