CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan – Federal authorities have freed a former Nazi concentration camp guard after failing to find a country to take the 81-year-old retired toolmaker who had been stripped of his U.S. citizenship. In January, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, upheld a decision to …
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19 November
Inmate Accused of Forcibly Tattooing Child Murderer Was Victim's Cousin
COLUMBUS, Ind. – An inmate accused of forcibly tattooing a slain 10-year-old girl’s name onto her killer’s forehead in an Indiana prison was the victim’s cousin, a family friend said. Jared Harris, 22, is a cousin of Katlyn “Katie” Collman, family friend and spokesman Terry Gray confirmed to The Republic …
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19 November
Ousted HP Chairwoman Dunn to Begin Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer
SAN FRANCISCO – Ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who survived breast cancer and melanoma, needs to begin chemotherapy treatments for advanced ovarian cancer, according to a person close to Dunn. Dunn, 53, is scheduled to start her treatments Friday at the University of California at San Francisco for …
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19 November
Manufacturers Hit Brakes; Pending Home Sales, Construction Spending Up
NEW YORK – U.S. manufacturing growth eased in September to its slowest in more than a year, but home sales and construction figures suggested a less abrupt decline in the housing sector than many experts had foreseen. A weakening industrial sector could spell bad news for the economy as a …
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19 November
Griffs Notes 10/6/06
I have not written about the tragedy that befell the quiet Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pa on Monday. I don’t know if it’s because I have been consumed with working the Mark Foley story or whether I have personally been afraid to take a closer look. But I think …
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19 November
Anti-Chavez March Draws Thousands in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela – Thousands marched Saturday in the biggest show of public support yet for Venezuela’s main opposition presidential candidate, who pledged to undo what he called the ills of President Hugo Chavez‘s government. Manuel Rosales accused the government of mismanaging the country’s oil wealth and ignoring crime. He also …
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19 November
Romanian TV Releases Video Said to Show Chinese Forces Shooting Tibetan Refugees
BEIJING – A Romanian TV station released a video Saturday that it said shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal in an incident that prompted an international outcry. The video from Pro TV shows a distant figure …
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19 November
Saddam's Genocide Trial Against the Kurds Resumes
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A defendant in Saddam Hussein’s Kurdish genocide trial told the court Tuesday that his lawyer wanted to end his boycott of the trial, but when the judge summoned the attorney, he failed to appear. And the chief defense lawyer for Saddam denied in an interview that any …
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19 November
Mel Gibson Calls DUI Arrest 'a Blessing'
LOS ANGELES – Mel Gibson called his DUI arrest “a blessing” and also told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview Thursday that he needed “public humiliation on a global scale” to get sober. But Jewish leaders, addiction experts and media-crisis managers say he must do more to repair his reputation …
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19 November
Lebanese Government OKs Hariri Tribunal
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Lebanese government on Monday approved a U.N. draft setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “We unanimously approved the draft,” Prime Minister Fuad Saniora told a news conference after a three-hour meeting. “We tell the criminals …
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