Police have no known suspects and are urging extreme caution following the murder of eight people in a dingy mobile home Saturday on the site of a historic plantation in southeast Georgia. “We are not looking for any known suspects,” said Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering during the second …
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The Ford Automobile A Model T from 1908 and a Ford Fusion from 2005 The Cell Phone Martin Cooper holding his cell phone from 1973 and the modern Google G1 phone The Refrigerator An ice box from 1921 and a modern day electric refrigerator The IBM PC The first IBM …
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TUCSON, Ariz. – A chemical cloud that wafted over the northwest side of Tucson and led to evacuations was the result of a hate crime, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. Deputy Dawn Barkman said investigators found several dead animals near the front door of a home, and said the …
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MOBILE, Alabama – Prosecutors asked a judge to throw out a public lewdness charge against an 81-year-old woman accused of urinating in a public park when she couldn’t make it to a bathroom, the city attorney said Thursday. Municipal prosecutors in Mobile filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss the charge …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that his country would hold the Lebanese government responsible for any attacks on Israeli targets by the country’s Hezbollah militia. It was the latest shot in a war of words that has been escalating since a July 14 explosion at a …
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Virginia health officials say 17 people from four states are undergoing rabies treatments after being exposed to a rabid kitten in Delaware. The Chickahominy Health District said Friday that those exposed include nine Hanover County residents, five people from Maryland, two from Pennsylvania and one from Delaware. One Hanover County …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA scrubbed space shuttle Endeavour’s Saturday evening launch after 11 lightning strikes were reported near the seaside launch pad. NASA technicians found no damage after an electrical storm Friday afternoon, but said they will need at least another day to check critical systems. A mission management …
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CHICAGO – Police searching for fugitive sex offenders, violent criminals and gang members made more than 35,000 arrests nationwide during an annual monthlong crackdown — the most in the roundup’s 5-year history and nearly double the number from last year — authorities announced Thursday. The U.S. Marshals Service said the …
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ROANOKE, Va. – Relatives of Virginia Tech victims are asking the state to reopen its investigation of the 2007 mass shootings at the school. A group including parents of many of the 32 people killed by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho issued a statement Tuesday calling on Gov. Tim Kaine to …
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WASHINGTON – Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has arrived at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, to start serving a 150-year sentence. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Linda Thomas says Madoff arrived at the Butner facility Tuesday morning, after a brief stay at an Atlanta prison while in transit from …
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