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  • How An American F-16 Pilot Was Given A Kamikaze Mission On Sept. 11

    The fourth recently identified hijacked plane appeared to be on a heading for Washington, and there was no time to arm the base’s fighter aircraft before Penney and her commanding officer took off to intercept the rogue Boeing 757 passenger plane. Penney, the first female F-16 pilot of the D.C. Air…

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  • Prosecutor: 3 babies' bodies found in filthy house

    The bodies of three infants were found Thursday in a filthy house where four other children were removed by authorities last month, a Massachusetts prosecutor said. Erika Murray, 31, would be arraigned Friday on charges that also include intimidation of a witness, prosecutors said. Detectives…

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  • Arabs back anti-IS move as Syria warns on 'attacks'

    Arabs back anti-IS move as Syria warns on 'attacks' Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Arab nations rallied behind US President Barack Obama's call to expand operations against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, as Damascus warned it would consider any action on its territory as an attack. Ten states,…

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  • Witness: Michael Brown was 'walking dead guy,' not rushing Ferguson officer

    An unresolved question in the controversial shooting death of Michael Brown is whether or not the unarmed teen may have charged at Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, giving the policeman reasonable fear to fire a barrage of fatal shots. The witness is one of two contractors who were working nearby on…

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  • Ravens fans, men and women, wear No 27 for Rice

    Music blared from the purple bus, and Baltimore Ravens fan Racquel Bailey stood with drink in hand amid her usual tailgate buddies while making a bold fashion statement: a black, rhinestone-decorated jersey with the white No. 27. "There's two sides to every story," said the 23-year-old waitress…

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  • How the world responded to Obama's Islamic State speech

    How the world responded to Obama's Islamic State speech From Tehran to Berlin, commentators are chewing over President Barack Obama’s speech last night on fighting the self-named Islamic State (IS). Mr. Obama’s speech wasn’t top news in many outlets, and more reactions will likely follow.

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  • Convicted killer in Ohio school shootings escapes

    An intensive manhunt was underway in western Ohio early Friday for the teen convicted of killing three students at a suburban Cleveland high school after his escape from prison. Nineteen-year-old T.J. Lane escaped around 7:40 p.m. with two other inmates from Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution…

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    Man `Can`t Believe` He Shot His Wife In The Head

    Corey Bowden, 42, turned himself in to Chesterfield, Virginia, police early Thursday morning after he admitted to shooting his wife in the head, Chesterfield Police Lt. Justin Miller said. The woman, 27, was rushed to VCU Medical Center where she died, according to her mother. Officers responded to…

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  • Here's What Congress Tweeted While Obama Was Asking for Their Support Against ISIS

    Here's What Congress Tweeted While Obama Was Asking for Their Support Against ISIS As President Obama addressed the American people tonight on the administration's plans to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS, he repeatedly mentioned that he wants Congress's support for his plans. On Twitter,…

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  • Pistorius not guilty of murder but was negligent

    During his trial, Oscar Pistorius sometimes retched and sobbed. The double-amputee Olympian sobbed again on Thursday, this time in apparent relief as a judge said the evidence did not support a murder conviction for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The judge could still convict Pistorius of a…

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  • Mayweather hoping a bad week gets better

    It didn't start out as the best of weeks for Floyd Mayweather Jr. Rapper 50 Cent was openly mocking him online for not being able to read simple sentences, offering Mayweather $750,000 to read a page from a Harry Potter book. Apologies aren't usually offered during fight week, but Mayweather was…

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  • Woman released in 1976 Reno murder case

    A 64-year-old woman who spent more than 30 years in prison for a Nevada killing she says she didn't commit was released on Thursday, three days after a judge granted her another trial in light of new DNA evidence. Cathy Woods downed a cheeseburger at Archie's, a 24-hour diner near the University of…

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    9/11: Then and now (54 photos)

    9/11: Then and nowYahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan returned this week to the scenes of many memorable images taken on Sept. 11, 2001, closely matching them with images from today. Since 2001, new obstacles have arisen, requiring some adjustments

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  • Super-Tough Cops Take Down 70-Pound High School Girl Who Wanted To Keep Her Cell Phone

    Two Houston, Texas school district police officers pinned a 15-year-old girl face down on the floor on Tuesday because she didn’t want to relinquish her cell phone to an assistant principal. The girl, sophomore Ixel Perez, weighs 70 pounds, according to her brother. In a video of the incident, one…

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  • Florida woman jailed for child neglect after drowning of toddler

    By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A young Florida mother was charged in connection with the Sept. 3 drowning death of her toddler, who had been hospitalized for a near-drowning several weeks earlier, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Stephanie Howell, 22, of DeFuniak Springs in the Panhandle,…

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  • Dozens of children at N.J. day care center accidentally drink bleach

    The children, aged 3 and 4, and adult staff members of the Growing Tree Learning Center in downtown Jersey City were transported in five ambulances to the Jersey City Medical Center after a late-morning call to 911, said Mark Rabson, a hospital spokesman. "There was a poisoning and many children…

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  • Alien-like giant water-living dinosaur unveiled

    Picture the fearsome creatures of "Jurassic Park" crossed with the shark from "Jaws." Then super-size to the biggest predator ever to roam Earth. The beast, called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, was already known to scientists from a long-ago fossil discovery, but most of those bones were destroyed in…

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  • 'Loving' father now tied to his 5 kids' deaths

    Their little bodies shrouded in plastic bags, the five children of Timothy Ray Jones Jr. had been dead for days by the time he led investigators to the spot where they had been dumped among dead trees and scrub brush. The children's journey to that isolated hilltop in central Alabama covered…

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  • Jaws actor from Bond films Richard Kiel dies at 74

    Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. Kelley Sanchez, director of communications at Saint Agnes Medical Center, confirmed Wednesday that Kiel was a patient at the hospital and died. Kiel's agent, Steven…

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  • Being Blind Hasn't Stood In The Way Of Adventure

    Erik Weihenmayer is Breaking Barriers and Records as a Blind Man on a Quest to Kayak the Grand Canyon's Colorado River.

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  • Here’s What Happens When a Pride of Lions and a Crocodile Battle Over Lunch

    An elephant died recently of natural causes in the Ewaso Ng'iro in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. The Kenya Wildlife Service came to remove the bull’s tusks to keep poachers from taking them. “A dead elephant is a potentially huge meal for lions, and we knew they would come,” according to a…

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