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Gunman found dead of apparent suicide
PHOENIX — A man who shot and killed a call-center CEO and critically wounded a lawyer at a Phoenix office building where they were meeting to discuss a contract dispute was found dead early Thursda...
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Then and Now: Hagel on national security
WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, sparred Thursday with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee over his record on a variety of national secur...
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Associated Press Authorities gather at the Dale County hostage scene Thursday in Midland City, Ala. A gunman holed up in a bunker with a young hostage has kept law officers at bay since the standoff began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said.
Negotiators talking to captor through pipe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker th...
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Indiana man to plead guilty to ‘sextortion’
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used re...
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Associated Press Members of the Phoenix Police Department SWAT team exit the garage at the home of a suspected gunman who opened fire at a Phoenix office building, wounding three people, one of them critically, and setting off a manhunt that led police to surround his house for several hours before they discovered he wasn't there, Wednesday in Phoenix. Authorities believe there was only one shooter. They don't believe the midmorning shooting at the complex was a random act.
Police: 1 dead in Arizona shooting
PHOENIX — A gunman opened fire at a Phoenix office complex on Wednesday, killing one person, wounding two others and setting off a manhunt. Police warned the public that he was “armed and dangerous...
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Associated Press STS-107 crew members wearing red shirts to signify their shift's color in 2003, are astronauts Kalpana Chawla (bottom, from left), mission specialist; Rick D. Husband, mission commander; Laurel B. Clark, mission specialist; and Ilan Ramon, payload specialist. Wearing blue shirts, are astronauts David M. Brown (top, from left), mission specialist; William C. McCool, pilot; and Michael P. Anderson, payload commander. The astronauts were killed on Feb. 1, 2003, in the final minutes of their 16-day scientific research mission aboard Columbia.
Shuttle Columbia’s anniversary approaches
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — He was just 8 when NASA lost the space shuttle Columbia and he lost his astronaut mom. Now, 10 years later, Iain Clark is a young man on the cusp of college with a master’...
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Judge nixes Sandusky’s bid for new abuse trial
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Wednesday when a judge rejected his argument that his lawyers were not given enough time to prepare for the three-week proceeding that en...
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Researchers expose obesity myths
Fact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids' weight. All are myths or at least presumptions that may not...
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Powerful storms flip cars, destroy homes; 2 dead
ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. — A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, generating tornadoes and dangerous winds that flipped cars on a major Georgia interstate, demolished homes and businesses...
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Police negotiate with gunman who kidnapped student
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 6-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and d...
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