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Wash. parents ruse snares man wooing daughter
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed on Facebook by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands.He hatched a Facebook ruse that drew the 30-year-old Federal Way man to Spokane earlier this month. Then the father and a couple of his buddies staked out the arranged meeting spot and blocked the man's escape until police arrived.The ...
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Duncan and Ginobili mourn Game Six defeat to Miami Heat
"Bad. Very bad. It's a tough moment. We were a few moments from winning the championship, and we let it go. I have no clue how we're going to be re energized. I'm devastated but we have to. There's no game eight afterwards. We're going to have to play our best game, even better than today. Shoot better, better defense, less turnovers in my case, but yeah, ...
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NY Gov. Cuomos Abortion Plank Back in Play in New York Senate
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives at a meeting with Appropriations Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman Senator Daniel Inouye and Senator Thad Cochran on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 3, ...
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FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffas remains ends
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 and announced the FBI was ending the search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos ...
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Prosecutors Disabled mom child held captive tortured
Four Ohio residents are accused of holding a mentally disabled mother and her 6-year-old daughter as captive slaves and torturing them with snakes and iguanas. WKYC's Tom Meyer ...
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Police dog left to die in hot patrol car
Police in Woodstock, Ga., have placed a 12-year veteran on leave as they investigate the death of a police dog in his care named "Spartacus." It appears the K-9 cop died of heat stroke after being left in the backseat of a patrol car. WXIA's Blayne Alexander ...
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Cops accused of brutality Suspect choked on drugs
Deputies in Bakersfield, Calif., say a suspect in their custody died choking on drugs, but his family maintains plastic baggies found in Willie Ramos' throat were part of a cover-up in a case of police brutality. KCRA's Katey Rusch ...
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Obama delivers address at Berlins Brandenburg Gate
President Barack Obama talks about reducing nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism and the fall of the Berlin Wall while addressing a crowd at the Brandenburg ...
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Accused Cleveland kidnapper utters few words in court
Ariel Castro, who is accused of keeping three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home, appeared before Judge Michael J. Russo for a pre-trial ...
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Police son still looking for missing Kan. elderly couple
By Sophia Rosenbaum, NBC News An elderly Kansas couple that set out on an eight-hour trip from Kansas to Illinois to visit family on Monday afternoon has not been heard from since.Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Vernon Hunt, 92, and his wife Goldie, 81, of Garnett, Kan. The couple left their house early Monday morning to visit Goldie’s twin sister in Dwight, Ill. ...
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After terrorising America for decades UFO now spotted in Kerala
The wife of an army officer has made a bizarre claim that her husband took photos of an unidentified flying object (UFO) along a beach in Kannur district of Kerala.The photo shows a saucer-shaped blurry object in the sky above the sea in the background and in the foreground is a beach and a car, supposedly the armyman's.According the wife of Major Sebastian Zachariah, currently posted in ...
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Michelle Obama lays roses at bloodiest site along Berlin Wall
1 of 4. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L) and her daughter Sasha place flowers as they visit the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin June 19, ...
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PRISM is Bad for American Soft Power
U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to deliver remarks in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on June 19, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In 1948, Harry Truman flip-flopped. After decades of holding racial biases, he decided to support the civil rights movement against Jim Crow laws. Truman's shift was as much cold political calculation as anything else. The path to ...
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Confessed killer says did not dictate deal to turn on Whitey Bulger
James ''Whitey'' Bulger holds John Martorano's youngest son, John Jr., during his Christening ceremony in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. Prosecutors showed the photograph to the jury June 18, 2013 as Martorano took the stand in the trial of accused mob boss Bulger, and has implicated him in a dozen killings over ...
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Astor son who swindled millionaire mother headed to NY prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anthony Marshall, the only child of late millionaire philanthropist Brooke Astor, has been a Broadway producer, a decorated war hero and U.S. diplomat and is set to add prison inmate to his life ...
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Jimmy Hoffa search finds no sign of ex-Teamsters leader in Detroit suburb
Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, addresses the media in Oakland Township, Mich., June 19, 2013, where he announced the FBI was ending search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in ...
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Report Okla. teen vanishes while hiking in South America
CBS affiliate KWTV, authorities in South America believe the teen may have been kidnapped. U.S. officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador told the station that they are monitoring the situation closely. In a phone interview, Chris Reiger told the station that an extensive search is underway. He said the family was hiking on a mountain near their resort hotel when August walked ahead of the ...
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Americas endangered historic places
President Barack Obama, left, walks around Gay Head Lighthouse while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Aquinnah, Mass., Aug. 27, 2009. The lighthouse is on The National Trust for Historic Preservation 2013 list of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first lighthouse built on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and now is in danger of toppling over the edge of the Gay ...
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Documentary Alleges TWA Flight 800 Cover-Up
Reconstruction work was taking place in Calverton, N.Y., on TWA Flight 800 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New York's Long Island, March 6, ...
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Missouri Man Who Set Wife on Fire Arrested
A Missouri man who set his wife on fire and evaded capture for more than 24 hours was arrested Tuesday night and charged with first degree assault, armed criminal action and arson, according to the local sheriffs office. Willard Hunt, of Higbee was found at approximately 8:30 p.m., wandering the railroad tracks behind a residential community. "Hunt dropped to his knees and said he was ...
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San Francisco Travel Association Announces New Marketing Representation In Japan
The San Francisco Travel Association, in partnership with San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has retained AVIAREPS Marketing Garden Ltd. (AMG) as their new marketing representation office in Japan. San Francisco Travel and SFO first retained representation services in Japan in 1987, making San Francisco one of the first cities in the U.S. to have an office in Tokyo. In 2000, a ...
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Tusks fund terror
>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...
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UPDATE 2-Tesla recalls some Model S cars due to seat-mount defect
Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:31am EDT By Bernie Woodall June 19 (Reuters) - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc will recall 1,228 of its 2013 Model S cars manufactured between May 10 and June 8 due to a defect in the mounting bracket of the rear seat. The fix will cost Tesla about $150,000 during the second quarter, company spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks said. Tesla will inspect and reinforce the bracket ...
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State Department whistleblower Law enforcement ‘harass her children’
Hillary Rodham Clinton helped cover up misconduct that occurred in the department during her tenure now says law enforcement agents are harassing ...
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Memorial Bridge is falling down, falling down
The Memorial Bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine is a historical landmark, its been there for over 80 years, but the bridge is old and in this age of recession, expensive repair work versus more valuable replacement may soon see the structure razed and replaced.
The Memorial Bridge that links Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Kittery in Maine is ageing. The through truss lift bridge is over 80 years old and has begun to feel its age in recent years, on the 16th of October, 2009 state authorities issued an emergency closure of the bridge due to essential repairs that were needed and its weight limit has steadily been reduced over the last year or so. Read more
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