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Associated Press World Wife Carrying Champions Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen, from Helsinki, Finland, enter the water hazard just moments before second-place finishers Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris during the finals of the 2012 North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday at Sunday River in Newry, Maine.
World champions win North America wife-carrying contest
NEWRY, Maine — A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine’s Sunday River ski resort. Taisto Miettinen and Krist...
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Rothko mural defaced at London’s Tate Modern
LONDON — A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at London’s Tate Modern on Sunday. The mural, one of Rothko’s Seagram series, was defaced when a visitor to t...
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Social media among greeting card threats
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Say it’s your birthday or you’ve just had a baby, maybe got engaged or bought your first house. If you’re like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sen...
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Friends baffled by killing of Alabama student
MOBILE, Ala. — Classmates and friends are questioning why a police officer fatally shot a University of South Alabama freshman who was naked and had been banging on a window at police headquarters....
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In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Anita McNeil, center, wife of John G. McNeil, speaks at a Freedom for John McNeil vigil held at Holy Calvary Church in Wilson, N.C.. Anita McNeil is joined by family, friends and supporters in the effort to free John McNeil. John McNeil has been incarcerated in Georgia prisons for over 5 years for reportedly shooting an advancing trespasser at the McNeil family home in Cobb County, Georgia.(AP Photo/The Wilson Times, Gray Whitley)
Family hopes for release of man in Georgia prison
WILSON, N.C. — For seven years, Anita McNeil has tried to move on from what she calls “the incident” — that day in December 2005 when her husband shot and killed a man who threatened him outside th...
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Associated Press Emergency workers tend to a person in a stretcher Saturday in Wayne, N.J., after a bus flipped onto its left side. The tour bus from Canada carrying about 60 people bound for New York City overturned on a highway exit ramp in northern New Jersey and slid down an embankment, injuring 23 people, authorities said.
Bus from Canada slides, overturns on exit ramp
WAYNE, N.J. — A tour bus from Canada carrying about 60 people bound for New York City overturned on a highway exit ramp in northern New Jersey early Saturday, slid down an embankment and landed on...
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Chrysler recalls trucks for axle nut issue
DETROIT — Chrysler is recalling thousands of Ram 1500 and Dodge Dakota trucks from the 2009 and 2010 model years because of a problem with a rear axle pinion nut that could cause the driver to lose...
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Boy’s body found; death 2 years ago
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — A routine child welfare investigation led to the discovery Saturday of a toddler’s corpse buried in the backyard of a Long Island home. State police unearthed the remains in ...
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Honda recalls 2002-2006 CR-V for fire risk
DETROIT — Honda Motor Co. is recalling CR-V crossovers from the 2002 to 2006 model years because an electrical switch in the driver’s side door could melt and cause a fire. Honda and the Nationa...
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A product labeled with Non Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods & Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. International food and chemical conglomerates are spending millions to defeat California's Proposition 37, which would require labeling on all food made with altered genetic material. It also would prohibit labeling or advertising such food as "natural." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
California initiative will test appetite for GMO food
LOS ANGELES — Calories. Nutrients. Serving size. How about “produced with genetic engineering?” California voters will soon decide whether to require certain raw and processed foods to carry suc...
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