Rescue workers evacuate a victim
of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. A man
dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun from a stage of a
lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday
before he killed himself, the school's president said.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday called a Colombian raid that
killed two dozen rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," and joined
Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of
the cross-border attack.
SAN ANGELO,
Texas (April 15) - Texas officials who took 416 children
from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of
their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled
with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest
child-custody cases in U.S. history.
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Motorists
heading through the Lehigh Valley from Allentown, Pa.,
earlier this year passed two giant billboards proclaiming:
"Fast Heart Attack Care Saved My Husband's Life."
What the
billboards didn't say was just how fast. It took 24 minutes
for Richard Silverman's doctors at Lehigh Valley Hospital to
clear a 100% blockage from his
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Russian warplanes attacked three military bases and key
facilities as battle continues
DZHAVA, Georgia -
Russia
dispatched an armored column into the breakaway enclave of
South Ossetia
on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a
surprise offensive to crush separatists. Witnesses said
hundreds of civilians were...
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HOUSTON - Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a
string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports
Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international
oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit for the
first time. While the
profits of unparalleled size have brought withering
criticism from Washington and
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Unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent; employers cut 51,000
jobs
WASHINGTON - The nation’s
unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent
in July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of
an influx of young people looking for summer work.
Payroll cuts weren’t as deep
as the 72,000 predicted by economists, however. And, job
losses for both May and June were smaller than previously
reported.
Suspect held after 3 swimmers killed
Alleged shooter
was wearing camouflage clothing, carrying assault rifle
Emergency
personnel rush Thursday towards the stretch of river in
Kingsford, Mich., along the border with Wisconsin where four
people were shot. Three of the victims later died.
NIAGARA, Wis. - A
dragnet ended Friday with the arrest of a man accused of
emerging from
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High-profile lawyer
Scruggs gets 5-yr sentence
ATLANTA
(Reuters) - A high-profile Mississippi lawyer, who became
unpopular on Wall Street for battling powerful companies,
was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after
pleading guilty to conspiring to bribe a judge.
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2nd NY millionaire
gets prison in slavery case
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A millionaire convicted of helping his
wife keep two Indonesian housekeepers as virtual slaves was
sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison, ending
a trial that shed light on the often little-seen
exploitation and abuse of domestic workers.
International perfume maker Mahender Sabhnani, 51, was
sentenced to 3 1/3 years and fined $12,500. He was convicted
in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included
forced labor, conspiracy,
involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.
The victims testified that they were beaten with
brooms and umbrellas,
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China
quake death toll could rise to 50,000
LUOSHUI TOWN, China - China warned the death toll from this
week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government
issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it
struggled to cope with the disaster.
More than
72 hours after the quake rattled central China,
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A
judge has declared a mistrial in the retrial of six men
accused of plotting terrorist acts with al Qaeda.
The decision comes after 13 days of deliberation and marks
the second time government prosecutors have failed to
convince a jury that the six defendants were guilty of
terror-related charges.
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Narseal Batiste, the group's alleged ringleader, testified
he wasn't serious about the terrorism threats he made.
LABUTTA, Myanmar (AFP) - Thousands of shell-shocked
survivors of the Myanmar cyclone emerged Wednesday,
desperate for food and water after trekking for days through
flood waters littered with the bodies of the dead.
An AFP reporter who reached the remote southern delta
hardest hit by the storm, which left more than 60,000
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Sect mother of newborn not a minor, Texas concedes
SAN ANTONIO -
Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a
newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being
removed from a polygamous sect's ranch, is an adult.
A Child Protective
Services attorney told state District Judge Barbara Walther
that the mother of a boy born
April 29 not a minor, as CPS
had
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FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol
Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2008, before the Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
(Dennis Cook - AP)
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III
told senators yesterday that agents improperly
used a type of administrative subpoena to obtain personal data
about Americans until internal reforms were enacted last year.
Mueller said a forthcoming
report from the
Justice Department's
inspector general will find that abuses recurred in the agency's
use of national security letters in 2006, echoing similar
problems to those identified in earlier audits.
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NEW YORK - Gov.
Eliot Spitzer's political career teetered on the brink of
collapse Monday after the corruption-fighting politician once
known as "Mr. Clean" was accused of paying for a four-hour romp
with a high-priced call girl. The scandal drew immediate calls
for the Democrat to step down. At a news conference before about
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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer addresses the
media with his wife Silda Wall Spitzer at...more
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department
of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen
beef from a
California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse
investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
Officials said it was the
largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban
of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. No illnesses have
been linked to the newly recalled meat, and officials said the
health threat was likely small.
The recall will affect beef
products dating to Feb. 1, 2006, that came from Chino-based
Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., the federal agency said.
Secretary of Agriculture Ed
Schafer said his department has evidence that Westland did not
routinely contact its veterinarian when cattle became
non-ambulatory after passing inspection, violating health
regulations.
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Gunman kills 7, at
Jerusalem seminary
JERUSALEM - A gunman entered the library of a rabbinical
seminary and opened fire on a crowded nighttime study session
Thursday, killing eight people and wounding nine before he was
slain, police and rescue workers said. It was the first militant
attack in
Jerusalem in more than four years.
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dead after gunfire at Mo. City Hall Meeting
Charles Lee 'Cookie' Thornton is
seen in this undated photo provided by the Webster-Kirkwood
Times. Thornton was identified by witnesses as the gunman who
opened fire at a city council meeting Thursday night Feb. 7,
2008, in Kirkwood, Mo., killing two police officers and at least
three city officials before law enforcers fatally shot him.
