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30 September 2011    05:59 ET The US-born radical Islamist cleric and suspected al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, the country’s defence ministry reported. US administration officials confirmed the reports, according to US media. Awlaki, of Yemeni descent, has been on the run in Yemen since December 2007. The US had named him [...]

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September 27, 2011 He had been on the run for four decades. He escaped from prison when Richard Nixon was in the White House, joined the Black Liberation Army in Detroit, hijacked a plane and (in)famously demanded that FBI agents deliver ransom money in bathing suits. And they did. Now, after a manhunt spanning three [...]

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September 29th, 2011   The FBI arrested a Massachusetts man Wednesday in an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in which authorities say he provided “step-by-step” instructions on attacking Washington with drone-like, remote-controlled model airplanes. Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, a U.S. citizen and Northeastern University physics graduate from Ashland, Mass., had [...]

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Tuesday September 27th, 2011 Machine Head’s new album Unto The Locust is out today, available now on iTunes and Amazon! Check out a full-length sample of the song below and download your copy today!  from:  http://machinehead1.com/board_posts?page=4   —————————————————————————————-   Phil Demmel was born on April 2nd, 1967 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Demmel   April 2nd, 1967   [...]

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9/27/11 06:49 AM ET Nancy Grace suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction on Monday’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Grace danced her quickstep so forcefully that her dressed slipped in exactly the wrong place, accidentally exposing a nipple. Grace didn’t realize it but the audience sure seemed to, looking stunned and stonyfaced as Grace finished her dance. [...]

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September 26, 2011    2000 GMT Kenyan Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died Monday after a battle with cancer. She was 71. Maathai, an environmentalist, had long campaigned for human rights and the empowerment of Africa’s most impoverished people. More than 30 years ago she founded the Green [...]

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September 26th, 2011 Jessy Dixon, a singer and songwriter who helped popularize gospel music with his energetic style and who found a wider audience touring and recording with Paul Simon, died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 73. His sister, Miriam Dixon, said he had been sick for over a year but [...]

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September 25th, 2011 Patrick Makau of Kenya set a world record on Sunday by winning the Berlin Marathon on a flat, searing course in 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds. Kenya swept the day with Florence Kiplagat winning the women’s race in 2:19:44. Paula Radcliffe of England, the women’s world record holder, ran her first [...]

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September 23rd, 2011 For now, the two young sons of a missing Utah woman are living with strangers. They are in state custody as the paternal grandfather they lived with in Washington state sits in jail, accused of possessing child pornography and secretly videotaping their mother, other women and naked neighbor girls. Now, the family [...]

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September 21st, 2011    01:05 PM ET   A satellite whose orbit is degrading is likely to crash back to Earth on Friday, and 26 pieces have a good chance of surviving the heat of re-entry, NASA said Wednesday.Despite being pretty sure that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, will re-enter the atmosphere sometime Friday, [...]

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    September 23rd, 2011    2:33 PM ET   Orlando Brown, the mauling offensive tackle who had played for the Ravens and Browns, was found dead in his Baltimore apartment on Friday, the Ravens announced.Brown, who was 40, last played in the NFL in 2005. A police spokesman told The Baltimore Sun that there were [...]

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September 22nd, 2011 On the witness stand, Chicago police Officer Sylshina London recalled how she had been terrified while driving to work in March 2010 when an occupant in another car threw a glass bottle, hitting her in the face, and several other individuals banged on her car and threatened to physically harm her. “I [...]

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September 20th, 2011 Harmful fumes caused the death of a Chicago police officer in April after he was exposed weeks earlier to a cleaning substance at a far Southwest Side station where he worked, according to autopsy results released recently by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Kevin Robinson, 42, a tactical officer with 15 [...]

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September 21, 2011    4:23 pm Five months ago, Jamey Rodemeyer, a Buffalo junior high school student, got on his webcam and created a video urging other gay teenagers to remain hopeful in the face of bullying. The 14-year-old spoke of coming out as bisexual and enduring taunts and slurs at school. And he described, [...]

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September 21, 2011     4:32 pm One of three people convicted in the 1998 dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, was  executed Wednesday night for his part in the slaying, the Associated Press has reported. [Updated 4:41 p.m.: Earlier reports said the execution was scheduled.] The racially motivated killing of James Byrd [...]

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September 22, 2011  As wildly different as they were in execution, the originals of “Prime Suspect” and “Charlie’s Angels” were, thematically, sisters of the same revolution. Although best known for flaunting the beauty of its shapely stars, “Charlie’s Angels,” which ABC launched in 1976, openly refuted the then-still-popular notion that women were the weaker sex. [...]

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September 21, 2011     8:59 am A Redondo Beach man has been arrested for allegedly running over and injuring a pedestrian who had criticized his driving. Jared Polk, 25, was arrested in Redondo Beach on Sunday on charges of felony hit-and-run and assault with a deadly weapon. Polk had screeched to a stop at a [...]

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September 21, 2011     11:16am Two Fullerton police officers have been criminally charged in the violent confrontation that left a homeless man dead, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas announced Wednesday.   Officer Manuel Ramos has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the beating of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic [...]

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6:10 a.m. CDT    September 20, 2011 Keith Abbott Conant, principal violist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on Thursday at 49, the Lyric said. Conant was most recently heard with the Lyric Opera Orchestra during the “Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park” free concert Sept. 10, when he [...]

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4:44 a.m. Wednesday, September 21, 2011   Troy Anthony Davis is preparing to die for the fourth time today.   Davis’ day will run according to a schedule the Department of Corrections follows in the hours leading up to an execution — a final goodbye to family, a last meal, the chance for Davis to [...]

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