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May 16, 2012 Greece appointed a senior judge Wednesday to head a caretaker government for a month as it lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the euro. The political uncertainty is worrying Greece’s international creditors as well as Greeks themselves, who have withdrawn hundreds of millions of euros from banks since [...]

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Monday May 7, 2012 A 25-year-old aspiring architect was killed late Sunday when she was crossing a San Francisco street with an armful of groceries and was hit by a pickup truck. Suzanne Monaco of San Francisco was walking west across Masonic Avenue near Euclid Avenue in the Laurel Heights neighborhood around 5:20 p.m. when [...]

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May 3, 2012         12:07 pm U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials identified the agent shot to death Wednesday night as Myron W. Chisem, a veteran of the U.S. Navy who was working as a special agent in the Los Angeles office since 2007. His 14-year-old son has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Chisem, [...]

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May 3, 2012         7:36 am Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego student whose five-day ordeal behind bars has made national headlines, plans to sue the Drug Enforcement Administration over the incident, his attorney said. The DEA apologized Wednesday to Chong, who was accidentally left unattended in a holding cell for five [...]

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8:25 PM EST     Thursday October 13, 2011 Self-styled superhero Phoenix Jones unmasked himself before cameras Thursday and vowed to keep fighting crime after prosecutors delayed a decision on whether to press assault charges against him. Jones — who told reporters his real name is Ben Fodor — routinely patrols downtown Seattle streets decked out in [...]

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April 30, 2012, 7:07 a.m. Seven members of a single family, including grandparents visiting from Dominican Republicand their 3-year-old granddaughter, were killed when the SUV in which they were riding skidded across three lanes of traffic and plunged off a highway nearly 60 feet into Bronx Zoo property. Sunday’s fatal crash was the second time in a year that a [...]

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Emma Sullivan, the Kansas teenager whose tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback has turned the conservative Republican into a social media target, is standing by her refusal to apologize. In an exchange of emails with the Los Angeles Times, Sullivan on Monday said she won’t comply with her principal’s demand that she write an apology to [...]

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July 14, 2011   11:39am The woman found dead at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado may have committed suicide, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. Rebecca Nalepa, 32, the live-in girlfriend of the home’s owner, Jonah Shacknai, the founder and owner  of an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, was found dead in the courtyard of the [...]

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November 1, 2011 Mahlon Mitchell is not talking himself up as a candidate for governor. In fact, when the president of the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin union received a civil rights award at the Voces de la Frontera 10th anniversary gala in Milwaukee Thursday, he didn’t mention the topic. But others have in recent days, [...]

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Oct 28, 2011       8:22 PM ET A Canadian aid worker was shot and another man killed while driving through a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Francklin Guerrier and the driver were attacked by people on a motorcycle, according to Radio-Canada correspondent in Haiti. The driver was killed. Guerrier, a Quebec retired lawyer, was shot in the [...]

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Oct 17, 2011    6:50 AM PT A 21-year-old man who was already charged in the slaying of a 15-year-old girl has now been charged in the deaths of three women, say RCMP in Prince George, B.C. Cody Legebokoff was charged in late 2010 with first-degree murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, whose [...]

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October 16, 2011     3:30 p.m. Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup on Lap 13, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside Turn 2. The 33-year-old racer was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, including this [...]

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October 12, 2011     1:11 pm Celebrities are accustomed to stalkers trying to get too close. But the FBI on Wednesday accused a man of gleaning intimate details from the lives of several top actresses and singers — including nude photos — from 3,000 miles away. Working from his home computer in Jacksonville, Fla., authorities [...]

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8:49 a.m. CDT, October 9, 2011 Authorities say a drug overdose is suspected in the death of former Weezer bass player Mikey Welsh, who was found in aChicago hotel room Saturday afternoon. Welsh, 40, was found unresponsive on the floor after failing to check out of his room at the Raffaello Hotel in the 200 [...]

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Sloan Churman, 29, was born deaf and had never heard the sound of her own voice—until last week. Eight weeks ago, Churman underwent surgery for a hearing implant called The Esteem Implant by Envoy Medical. Though she’d been wearing hearing aids since the age of 2, she says they “only help so much.” She had [...]

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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 18, 2011     2:34pm A 23-year-old Wilmington man was fatally stabbed early Sunday morning, Los Angeles police said. Rogelio Alvarado had severe stab wounds when police found him around 5 a.m. Sunday lying on the ground in a courtyard in the 1100 block of Anaheim Street. He was taken to a local hospital, where he [...]

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08:14 p.m., Sunday, September 4, 2011 A pool party Saturday that inspired tweets about late-night shenanigans at a Texans football player’s home ended before anyone noticed a man’s body under the water. That came about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, when one of the more than two dozen guests who spent the night at Texans defensive end [...]

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July 19, 2011 The sister of a woman allegedly found hanged at a millionaire’s historic mansion has rejected suggestions that she could have committed suicide. The body of Rebecca Zahau, 32, was found on the grounds of the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, Calif., last Wednesday. Her hands and feet were bound. Two days before Zahau’s [...]

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August 17, 2011   3:38 PM ET No Miami players were suspended for Wednesday morning’s practice on the heels of allegations by a former booster that could implicate dozens of current and former players in various NCAA violations, coach Al Golden said. “Until we hear of an infraction or that we did break a rule, everybody is [...]

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