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Associated Press From left, Tennesseans' Lynn Burnett, Vicki Schmidt, Abigail Johnson and Vance Poss, who was in last week's Boston Marathon, show support at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville on Thursday. All four ran in Saturday's Country Music Marathon.
Heavy security on streets for Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With a SWAT team parked near the starting line, Scott Wietecha of Hendersonville, Tenn., won the St. Jude Country Music Marathon on Saturday after missing the Boston Marathon bec...
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Tainted water scandal offers differing claims
CHICAGO — A prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Friday that a one-time suburban Chicago water official lied about drawing village water from a well tainted with a cancer-causing ...
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170 Fort Campbell soldiers return from Afghanistan
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Another 170 Fort Campbell soldiers have returned to the sprawling post on the Kentucky-Tennessee line after a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. The Leaf-Chronicle reports t...
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Police search river for suburban boy
MAYWOOD, Ill. — Authorities in suburban Chicago resumed searching a river Saturday for the body of a 1-year-old boy who they believe was beaten to death by his mother and her boyfriend. Bryeon H...
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Associated Press Logan County sheriff's officers survey and secure the home, in September 2009, where five members of a family were found slain in Beason, Ill. Trial is set to begin Monday in Peoria, Ill., for Christopher Harris, one of two brothers accused in the slayings of his ex-wife's family.
1st trial of brutal slaying begins
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The killing of a Beason couple and three of their children led many in their tiny central Illinois farming community to begin locking their doors at night, and nearly four years l...
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2 teens to be tried as adults in deaths
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A judge has decided that two teens accused of murdering a vacationing Michigan couple will be tried as adults. Seventeen-year-old Anthony Zarro, of Spring, Texas, and 16-year-...
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Homicide victim won $4.9 million in 2005 fire
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Columbia art dealer who was gunned down in his home earlier this month had won nearly $5 million in a legal settlement after he was badly burned in a 2005 apartment fire that forc...
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Associated Press Members of the United Mine Workers of America wait to be arrested by police during a protest outside the headquarters of Peabody Energy in St. Louis on Feb. 13. The union is promising to have thousands of miners and their supporters rallying in St. Louis when Patriot Coal Corp.'s bankruptcy hearing begins. Patriot, spun off Peabody in 2007, is seeking drastic cuts in retiree health care benefits.
Patriot Coal bankruptcy case begins
ST. LOUIS — The United Mine Workers of America union is promising to have thousands of miners and their supporters rallying in St. Louis next week as Patriot Coal Corp.’s bankruptcy hearing goes to...
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Prosecutors: Official lied about water
CHICAGO — A prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Friday that a one-time suburban Chicago water official lied about drawing village water from a well tainted with a cancer-causing ...
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Mississippi River drops; assessment to follow
ST. LOUIS — The Mississippi River is receding at the last of the big flooding trouble spots, but it will likely be months before the full scope of the damage is known. Information from the Natio...
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