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Pregnant Servicewoman's Death Near North Carolina Base Called Suspicious

Police are calling a pregnant soldier’s death “suspicious” after officials found her body Sunday at a Fayetteville, N.C., motel just days after she arrived at Fort Bragg from Germany. Spc. Megan Lynn Touma was identified Tuesday, two days after her body was found in a motel room when guests complained …

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U.N. Drug Chief Says Insurgents Complicating International Drug War

VIENNA, Austria – More than ever before, authorities waging the global war on drugs are up against real insurgents. Worldwide, illicit cultivation of opium and coca — the raw materials for heroin and cocaine — is rising as militants in Afghanistan, Colombia and Burma consolidate their control of key drug-producing …

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Court Orders Prison to Give Inmate Vegan Meals

BOSTON – A federal judge has ruled that the state’s prison system violated a convicted child killer’s civil rights by denying him a vegan diet. U.S. Chief District Judge Mark Wolf ruled this week that the Department of Correction violated federal law protecting religious freedom and ordered the department to …

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