SOUTHGATE, Mich. – A Detroit area restaurant owner believes he broke the Guiness World Record for “largest hamburger commercially available.” After 12 hours of preparation and baking, the 134-pound burger emerged at Mallie’s Sports Bar and Grill on Saturday. The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report the “Absolutely …
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MINSK, Belarus – Freedom could be years away for Aleksandr Sdvizhkov, the Belarusian journalist sentenced to three years of hard labor for republishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked mass demonstrations and anti-Western violence across the Muslim world. Sdvizhkov is currently being held with no means of communication at …
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More than 200 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease in an outbreak that some health officials are blaming on the war’s devastating effect on the nation’s public health system. According to local officials in Iraq’s southern province of Qadissiyah, who reported the outbreak to …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush said Friday that “our country is in more danger of an attack” because of Congress’ failure to extend a law that makes it easier for the government to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States. Democrats, in turn, accused Bush …
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LONDON – Arriving separately and saying little, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills went to court Monday to reach a financial settlement in their acrimonious, high-stakes divorce. The High Court hearing, called to divide up the former Beatle’s fortune of as much $1.6 billion, had all the elements of high show-biz …
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WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are rejecting Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s request to change new sentencing guidelines for crimes involving crack cocaine. New U.S. Sentencing Commission rules taking effect next month would let nearly 20,000 federal inmates seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. In testimony last week, Mukasey asked Congress …
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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael Mukasey wants Congress to act within weeks to prevent the release of thousands of violent criminals from federal prison under new crack cocaine sentencing rules. In testimony prepared for a House hearing Thursday, Mukasey indicates a willingness to go along with new sentencing guidelines that …
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LOS ANGELES – Members of the writers guild have overwhelmingly approved a new contract with Hollywood studios that increases payment for shows offered on the Internet, the union said Tuesday. The deal was endorsed by 93.6 percent of the 4,060 votes cast in Los Angeles and New York. “This contract …
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Chino police Tuesday said they had arrested one of the meatpacking workers charged with animal cruelty in the case. Daniel Ugarte Navarro, who worked as a pen manager at the slaughterhouse, was taken into custody Saturday at his Pomona home on a warrant issued the day before, police spokeswoman Michelle …
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Pakistan test-fired a new version of a medium-range ballistic missile Friday in the country’s latest efforts to boost security. The Ghauri missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead with a range of 810 miles, according to the military. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq …
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