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Tropical Storm Barry headsforms off Mexican coast
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Barry is bearing down on Mexico's Gulf Coast, poised to make landfall within hours. The Miami-based center said the storm was about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of the port city of Veracruz early Thursday and heading west at 5 mph (7 ...
Attorneys meet to discuss Jodi Arias case
Jodi Arias returns to court Thursday for the first time since the penalty phase of her case ended in mistrial last month as lawyers discuss plans for a new trial to decide the punishment for the convicted murderer. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder on May 8 in the ...
Birth control shots could alter life in poor areas
A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Dogs that weren't caught were covered in mange and parasites. Some froze. Some starved. In packs, they survived be eating each other. And dog bites were 20 times worse than the ...
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the few passers-by. It's inside this wooded golf course community where neighbors of John Martorano learned this week that the 72-year-old they know only ...
Homes evacuated as wildfire flares near Denver
Dozens of homes were evacuated near Denver as a wind-driven wildfire flared, one of many in the western states where hot and windy conditions were making it easy for the wild land blazes to start and spread. The fire in the foothills about 30 miles southwest of Denver forced evacuations ...
Zimmerman jurors reveal personal details
One potential juror at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial belongs to the National Rifle Association. Another says she was the victim of a violent crime that is constantly on her mind. A third is a competitive arm-wrestler. The 40 members of the pool of possible jurors — some of whom ...
Medical care lags behind Afghan military growth
The young Afghan soldier lay in great pain on a cot at an army base, his uniform pants cut up to his thigh so medics could clean the wound in his right knee where he was shot fighting insurgents. The medics bandaged him and gave him morphine and an IV ...
Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them Dallas-based Heritage Auctions estimates the shackles are worth at least ...
Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine. That's the vision ...
Youth leagues try to rein in 'bad news parents'
No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see ...
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