NICOLAUS, Calif. – Authorities searching for three missing teens in northern California say they have recovered two bodies from the Feather River and are searching for a third. The three disappeared March 4 during a fishing and camping trip in a rural area north of Sacramento. Fishermen reported hearing a …
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AMSTETTEN, Austria – For almost a quarter of a century, Josef Fritzl allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave in a cramped, rat-infested cellar where he fathered seven children with her. This week, the notorious Austrian with icy blue eyes faces justice in what is being billed locally as …
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The United States will play England, Slovenia and Algeria in the first round of next year’s World Cup in what appears to be a relatively easy group. The U.S. opens against England in Rustenburg on June 12, their first World Cup matchup since the Americans’ …
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Parents in Detroit are demanding jail time for teachers after the release of a report showing fourth and eigth-grade students with the lowest math scores in the nation, MyFoxDetroit reported Monday. Sharlonda Buckman of the Detroit Parent Network is reportedly pushing for prison time and civil lawsuits against teachers and …
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The European Union will provide $3 million in additional funding for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge genocide trial, an EU official said Wednesday. The brutal 1970s rule of the Khmer Rouge left an estimated 1.7 million people dead from torture, execution, disease and starvation. A verdict is expected …
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RICHMOND, Calif. – Three brothers and two other men face charges after authorities say they seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine in the east San Francisco Bay city of Richmond. Richmond Police Sgt. Bisa French announced Tuesday that after a yearlong investigation, federal agents and local police arrested …
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LOS ANGELES – A woman driving an old limousine ran over another woman after an apparent dispute over drugs and dragged her for nearly a mile through Skid Row in Los Angeles early Thursday. Pursuing police finally stopped the car but the victim died at the scene, Sgt. Dan Eun …
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HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – A fire that started Thursday near a rail tanker car at a chemical plant spread quickly to silos holding gasoline, causing an inferno that sent huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky above Detroit and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from the area. …
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Officers searching for a 2-month-old boy say they’ve found the body of an infant in a wooded area and opened a homicide case. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday it is awaiting positive identification of the body, and the father of Jon “Cecil” Anthony Frazier is …
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MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of soldiers launched an assault on two jungle encampments of Al Qaeda-linked militants in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least 20 gunmen and seizing bombs that had been set to explode, military officials said. The simultaneous, pre-dawn attacks on two Abu Sayyaf encampments in …
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