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Heat Makes Hundreds of Jamboree Scouts Ill

BOWLING GREEN, Va. – More than 300 Boy Scouts (search) were sickened by the heat Wednesday while waiting for President Bush to arrive at a memorial service for four Scout leaders who were killed while pitching a tent beneath a power line. The president’s visit to the Scout Jamboree (search) …

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Poll: Kilpatrick Trails in Detroit Mayor's Race

DETROIT – Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (search) trailed former Deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix (search) in a new poll, although the incumbent was gaining ground somewhat in a potential two-way race. Detroit’s nonpartisan mayoral primary is Aug. 2. The top two candidates face off in the Nov. 8 general election. Kilpatrick, who …

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Emergency Response in London

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” July 7, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Joining us in London (search) is the Salvation Army’s (search) secretary for communications in the U.K. and Ireland, Major Bill Cochrane. Major, tell me first, when did you …

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Witnesses: People 'Covered in Blood, Soot'

LONDON – For those caught in one of the four explosions that ripped through London’s subway trains and a double-decker bus, one word captured the terror. “It was chaos,” said Gary Lewis, 32, who was evacuated from a subway train at King’s Cross station (search). “The one haunting image was …

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Hot Stories for the Week of July 11

This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, July 16, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. MORT KONDRACKE, CO-HOST: Well, the hot story is, be afraid. And by that, I’m talking …

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Biblical Scroll Found in Israel

JERUSALEM – A secretive encounter with a Bedouin (search) in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll — the first such finding in decades, an Israeli archaeologist said Friday. The finding has given rise to hope that the Judean Desert (search) …

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Disaster Stress May Up Heart Failure Risk

Last year’s earthquakes in Niigata, Japan, have opened the window on a dramatic heart problem. It’s called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Translation: stress-induced heart failure. This wasn’t common stress, which can chip away at you over time. Instead, it was sudden, violent, and totally uncontrollable: three strong earthquakes and about 90 large …

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Miami Ex-Politician Kills Self After Corruption Allegations

MIAMI – A former city commissioner recently indicted on corruption charges fatally shot himself in the lobby of The Miami Herald building the same day another newspaper published lurid accusations against him. Arthur E. Teele Jr. (search) shot himself in the head Wednesday after asking a security guard if he …

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Dems Question Roberts' Views on Activism

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent Supreme Court nominee John Roberts (search) a questionnaire that asks him to describe his views on judicial activism. Click in the box to the right to watch a report by FOX News’ Megyn Kendall. But some of that information is already …

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Police: Florida Couple Buried Alive

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A couple whose bodies were found in a shallow grave in southern Georgia were buried alive, and four people face murder and other charges, police said Thursday. The official cause of death for Carol and James Sumner, both 61, of Jacksonville (search), was mechanical asphyxiation, said Ken …

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