JERUSALEM – A massive wave of guerrilla rockets pounded northern Israel in a matter of minutes Thursday, killing eight people hours before Hezbollah‘s leader offered to stop the attacks if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel hit back early Friday with airstrikes in southern Beirut. Israel lost four soldiers in fighting …
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DALLAS – Country music singerJohnny Duncan, known for songs like “She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime” and “It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better,” has died. He was 67. Duncan, who had a string of country hits in the 1970s, died Monday of a heart attack at a …
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PHOENIX – A man accused of driving an overloaded SUV that rolled while fleeing U.S. Border Patrol agents north of Yuma, killing 10 migrants, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Adan Pineda Doval of Guetamo, Mexico, is charged with 10 counts of causing the death of migrants while …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA chief Michael Griffin is taking a calculated gamble by going ahead with the launch of Discovery, overruling two top managers who fear foam flying off the fuel tank might harm the space shuttle. The world will soon know if his gamble pays off. Discovery was …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A mortar barrage followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad‘s upscale Karradah district Thursday, killing 31 people and wounding 153, police said. The explosions occurred at midmorning in a religiously mixed neighborhood controlled by a major Shiite party, two days after President George W. Bush …
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SANTA ANA, California – Jurors were unable to decide Friday whether to impose the death penalty on two convicted leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, prompting a mistrial in the matter and giving the men life in prison. The same jury convicted Barry “The Baron” Mills and Tyler “The …
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DARMSTADT, Germany – The SMART-1 spacecraft sent back an unexpectedly rich data haul that could shed light on the moon’s origins and evolution before its three-year voyage ended in a planned crash on the lunar surface, European space scientists said Monday. The mission’s primary purpose was to test a new, …
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NEW YORK – In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York’s ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends. She was reported dozens of times, …
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Authorities are looking for a group of men who staged a violent robbery at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Delray Beach. Police spokesman Jeff Messer says four people were shot Wednesday night but are expected to recover. Witnesses say as many as four armed men burst into …
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TORONTO – A Canadian TV journalist was stabbed during her October abduction in Afghanistan and held nearly four weeks in an underground warren by a family of kidnappers seeking ransom for her release. But, in an interview broadcast Wednesday, Mellissa Fung, a 35-year-old reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., credited …
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