WANGEN, Germany – Togo’s soccer coach quit Saturday, throwing the West African team into turmoil days before its World Cup debut. The cause of Otto Pfister’s decision was apparently a dispute over pay between the players and the national federation which got so heated that Togo’s prime minister flew in …
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EDGEWOOD, Md – Dr. William Bernhard was distraught when a knee injury kept him out of the Marines as a young man. But he still found a way to spend his life in the military by becoming a surgeon in the Army Reserve and National Guard. On Saturday, the 75-year-old …
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RENO, Nev. – An international manhunt ended peacefully Friday when a Nevada man suspected of murdering his wife and shooting a judge turned himself into authorities in Mexico, FBI officials told FOX News. Darren Mack, 45, a former Reno pawnshop dealer, surrendered to Mexican immigration officials in Puerto Vallarta just …
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KUWAIT CITY – The Iraqi kidnappers of American journalist Jill Carroll have set a Feb. 26 deadline for their demands to be met or they will kill her, the owner of Kuwait’s Al-Rai television said Friday. People close to the kidnappers told the private TV channel earlier Friday that Carroll …
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NEW YORK – An ice cream shop owner from Yemen was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison Friday for illegally funneling nearly $22 million overseas in a case stemming from a major terrorism investigation. Abad Elfgeeh, 51, was convicted last year of running an illegal money-transmitting business and structuring …
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The mayor of a town in Massachusetts who flew the Danish flag outside town hall as a sign of solidarity with his besieged Scandinavian brothers is now being accused of being insensitive and inflaming Muslim passions, according to the Boston Globe. Town Manager Mark Stankiewicz of Stoughton, Mass. was so …
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ATLANTA – Coretta Scott King was the keeper of her late husband’s legacy of racial equality and nonviolence, and some believe she could still play that role in death, even as the future of the King Center she founded remains unclear. With her death Tuesday, the next move for the …
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ATLANTA – More than two dozen Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots held signs Friday berating management for asking pilots to take deep concessions while trying to get court approval for a hefty severance plan for officers. The picketing at the passenger drop-off area outside Delta’s terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International …
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CANBERRA, Australia – A mysterious illness that has killed tens of thousands of Tasmanian devils is caused by cancerous tumors that are spread by ferocious squabbling among the carnivorous marsupials, according to research published Thursday. Numbers of the black, fox-sized scavengers with a bloodcurdling growl and powerful jaws that crunch …
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