A missing 13-year-old boy from Ohio, who authorities say kept a diary hit list and threatened several faculty members and students at his school, was traced making a phone call from Kentucky, the Norwalk Reflector reported. Police haven’t yet been able to track Calvin Riley down, but authorities told the …
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EVANSTON, Illinois – Professors, students and alumni of the alma mater of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran are helping orchestrate a hunger strike in hopes of pressuring her release. The FreeRoxana campaign partly sponsored by people affiliated with Northwestern University is organizing the protest on behalf of Roxana Saberi. …
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MUMBAI, India – The shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire” child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of city’s slum where she lived. Munni Qureshi, the stepmother of 9-year-old Rubina Ali who played the film’s heroine Latika in the Oscar-winning film, said her husband …
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CLEVELAND – Federal agents carrying John Demjanjuk in a wheelchair put him on a small jet Monday to be deported to Germany, where the retired autoworker is accused of being a Nazi death camp guard in World War II. Demjanjuk, 89, arrived in an ambulance at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport …
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LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit Friday against a writer for the CBS show “CSI,” alleging she named two shady characters in an episode after them to get revenge for a real estate deal gone bad. Real estate agents Melinda and Scott Tamkin are suing writer …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Americans sent more than $30 million to this Caribbean island last year to claim winnings in a Jamaican lottery. The trouble is there was no such contest. Scam artists are making Jamaica a new center for internationally known lottery schemes, aiding a network of violent gangs that …
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BELLEVUE, Wash. – The Bellevue Fire Department says a sunny day and a dog’s water bowl caused the fire that charred the back of a home. Lt. Eric Keenan says investigators determined the glass bowl of water magnified the rays enough to start the Sunday afternoon fire on the wood …
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TEHRAN, Iran – U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran’s nuclear program. The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent …
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A man is claiming a hospital misdiagnosed him with rectal cancer and then “unnecessarily gave him an artificial rectum,” Agence France-Presse reported. The man, who lives in Japan, underwent surgery in March to remove his “tumor,” but was later told no cancer cells were found. The man, whose name is …
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MIAMI – The U.S. is taking legal steps in Miami to return a stolen, 3,000-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt. Federal prosecutors filed court papers Thursday seeking forfeiture of the ancient artifact. It wound up in Miami last year following a series of transactions that began at an antique dealership in Barcelona, …
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