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  • Girl killed by falling door

    PHILADELPHIA — Authorities on Sunday were investigating how a metal security grate detached and fell from the facade of an Italian ice shop, killing a 3-year-old girl in front of dozens of people who tried to rescue her....

    June 30, 2014

  • Mars ‘flying saucer’ splashes down after test

    LOS ANGELES — NASA has tested new technology designed to bring spacecraft — and one day even astronauts — safely down to Mars, with the agency declaring the experiment a qualified success even though a giant parachute got tangled on the ...

    June 30, 2014

  • Bond set at $1M for ex-cop in suitcase deaths

    ELKHORN, Wis. — Two women whose remains were found stuffed in suitcases dropped along a rural Wisconsin highway may have died accidentally, perhaps during consensual sex, the defense attorney for a former police officer suspected in their ...

    June 28, 2014

  • State denies extension for Los Alamos toxic waste cleanup

    SANTA FE, N.M. — The state is cracking down on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s attempts to extend deadlines for cleaning up toxic waste across its northern New Mexico campus....

    June 28, 2014

  • Yemen ceasefire breached; violence flares

    SANAA, Yemen — Fierce clashes erupted between rebels and tribes backed by an army unit in a northern Yemeni city close to the capital on Friday, breaching a week-old ceasefire, a Defense Ministry official said, as the country’s leaders ...

    June 28, 2014

  • Mexican law enforcement denies shooting at agents

    TUCSON, Ariz. — Mexican law enforcement on Thursday crossed into Arizona by helicopter and fired two shots at U.S. border agents, a border patrol union leader says. A Mexican law enforcement chopper crossed about 100 yards north into the ...

    June 28, 2014

  • Mountain lion scares shoppers in Utah

    SANDY, Utah — Utah authorities captured a mountain lion Friday that startled people but didn’t hurt anybody at a shopping center in a Salt Lake City suburb. The mountain lion was spotted walking across a street and into Jordan Commons in ...

    June 28, 2014

  • NYC ban on big sodas canned

    NEW YORK — Big sodas can stay on the menu in the Big Apple after New York state’s highest court refused Thursday to reinstate the city’s first-of-its-kind size limit on sugary drinks. But city officials suggested they might be willing to ...

    June 27, 2014

  • EU leaders mark WWI centennial

    BRUSSELS — At a site where their countrymen once slaughtered each other with machine guns, artillery and poison gas, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and other European nations commemorated the 100th anniversary of World War I and ...

    June 27, 2014

  • Thousands flee Ukraine for Russia; truce nears end

    IZVARYNE, Ukraine — As a shaky cease-fire in the east entered its final hours Thursday, thousands of Ukrainians in cars stuffed with belongings lined up at the border to cross into Russia, some vowing never to return. Many said they were ...

    June 27, 2014