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Mo. teen to be tried as adult in death of girl
11/19/2009 12:36 AM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A police officer testified Wednesday that a 15-year-old girl told investigators she killed a 9-year-old neighbor because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone, and a judge ruled the teen should stand trial a ...
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11/19/2009 12:36 AM
MIAMI (AP) -- A South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme is asking for his own disbarment.
A Florida Bar committee has approved the disbarment request submitted by attorney Scott Rothstein. A spokeswoman said Wednesday ...
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11/17/2009 12:34 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
The supply run should keep the space station humming for years to come, and the shuttl ...
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11/17/2009 12:34 AM
ATLANTA -- UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, expects to deliver roughly 22 million small packages on its busiest day this year - projected to be Dec. 21.
UPS, based in Atlanta, said Monday that's about a 40 percent increase over norma ...
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11/17/2009 12:33 AM
ATLANTA -- Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.
Last year there were 1.2 million new cases of chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infect ...
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11/17/2009 12:32 AM
ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community has shut down.
Laura Douglas-Brown, editor of Southern Voice newspaper in Atlanta, said she arrived at work Monday to find the locks changed and a no ...
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11/17/2009 12:32 AM
SANFORD, N.C. -- Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road Monday, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother was accused of offering her for sex, police said.
Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance told The Assoc ...
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11/16/2009 8:33 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.
Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21, cla ...
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11/16/2009 8:28 PM
ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. Secret Service said businesses and consumers across Georgia should pay extra attention to the money they handle to make sure it's real, a problem that often surfaces as the holiday season approaches.
WSB-TV reports two Atla ...
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11/16/2009 12:33 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- U.S. physicians are torn over what the government should do to make health care more available and affordable, but they're surprisingly like-minded about one perceived scourge - the insurance industry.
As the U.S. Senate considers t ...
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11/16/2009 12:33 AM
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- We might never be able to feel sympathy for the speeding driver who swerves into our lane, barely missing the bumper, only to cut back into his original lane a quarter-mile later. But new research may at least help us understand ...
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11/16/2009 12:31 AM
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones?
Enough to miss seeing a clown - wearing bright purple and yellow clothes, with a red nose and big red shoes - riding a unicycle near them ...
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11/16/2009 12:31 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost 24 centuries after the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote his book, "On the Movement of Animals," modern scientists are still struggling to understand how, why, when and where living creatures move.
Whether an organism dri ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson revealed Friday that he has suffered from depression since his marriage began to unravel 2 1รขÑ2 years ago and said he tried to commit suicide.
"My depression became so severe that I took ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
ATHENS, Ga. -- Responsible bulldog owners have to wash their dog's face folds daily, wipe their bottoms and always be on the lookout for the skin and eye irritations that the breed is prone to.
"If somebody wants a dog that they can just leave in t ...
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11/14/2009 12:33 AM
OCEAN CITY, N.J. -- A powerful storm born from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida began moving out to sea Friday after raking the East Coast for three days, leaving behind it a trail of flooding, damaged buildings, eroded beaches and at least six dea ...
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