Man Killed at Christian Radio Station

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said.
WTLR station manager Mark VanOuse said the station received a tip around 10 a.m. that [...]

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ONE IN A MILLION: Black Twin and White Twin

LICHTENBERG, Germany - Different coloured twins were born in Germany’s town of Lichtenberg, the British Daily Mail newspaper reports. Although they come from a mixed couple, doctors say the case is one in a million. Their mother Florence comes from Ghana while father Stephan is German.
One of the newly born brothers, Ryan, is light-skinned, and [...]

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Nazi-Hunter Says He’s Closing in on ‘Dr. Death’

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The world’s top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he’s made progress in finding 94-year-old “Doctor Death,” a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, [...]

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Jolie Gives Birth to Twins; A Girl and a Boy

NICE, France (AP) — Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world’s most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins - a boy and a girl - and all “are doing marvelously well,” the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital [...]

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BREAKING… Tony Snow Dies of Cancer

WASHINGTON — Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush’s press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.
“America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,” President Bush said in a statement from Camp [...]

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SHOCK VIDEO: Ignored Woman Dies on Emergency Room Floor

LOS ANGELES - A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility, newly released tapes of the emergency calls reveal.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at [...]

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UPDATE: 6 Die as Medical Helicopters Collide Over Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A helicopter ferrying a patient with a medical emergency from the Grand Canyon collided into another chopper carrying a patient near a northern Arizona hospital, leaving six people dead and critically injuring a nurse.
The collision Sunday east of Flagstaff Medical Center was a few hundred yards away from a neighborhood that was [...]

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SHOCK: Extinct Tree Brought Back to Life after 2,000 Years!

Ancient date seeds from Masada.
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In the foreboding, cliff-side fortress of Masada some 2,000 years ago, Jewish Zealots savored sweet dates from Judean palm trees, gazed at the Dead Sea, and perhaps spit seeds onto the palace floor.
Later, Roman forces would storm Masada, triggering mass suicides by the barricaded Zealots. For centuries, [...]

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Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71

LOS ANGELES — George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV” routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on [...]

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S.C. Inmate Who Killed 2 Executed by Electric Chair

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents 14 years ago was executed in the state’s electric chair Friday night after a last-ditch effort to halt the sentence was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
James Earl Reed was pronounced dead at 11:27 p.m. Friday in the state’s death chamber [...]

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N.C. Newborn Twins Tip Scales at a Combined 23 Pounds

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — They aren’t America’s heaviest newborn twins on record, but they certainly tip the scales: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth this week, a North Carolina hospital announced Friday.
Freda Springs, spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center, said the twins were [...]

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REPORT: Girls Made Pact to Get Pregnant; Homeless Man One of the Fathers

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.
Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact [...]

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Jamie Lynn Spears Gives Birth to Baby Girl

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl Thursday morning at a south Mississippi hospital, according to a person close to the Spears family.
The person confirmed the baby’s birth to The Associated Press. The person asked not to be identified because the family had not yet announced the baby’s birth.
The [...]

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Village Re-Elects Dead Mayor

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday’s municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began — but still won the election by a margin [...]

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BREAKING… NBC’s Tim Russert Dead at 58

WASHINGTON — Tim Russert, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58
Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its [...]

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US Life Expectancy Tops 78!

U.S. life expectancy has hit a new record: 78.1 years for babies born in 2006, says the CDC.
What’s more, the death rate for 11 of the top 15 causes of death — including heart disease, cancer, and stroke — slowed in 2006.
That’s what the CDC’s preliminary data show, based on some 2.4 million deaths in [...]

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BREAKING… 4 dead, 40 Injured as Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp

BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — A tornado slammed a Boy Scout camp in the remote hills of western Iowa late Wednesday, killing at least four people, injuring 40 and setting off a frantic search for others who could be trapped in the piles of debris and downed trees.
A search and rescue team has been deployed to [...]

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REPORT: Jessica Alba Has Baby Girl

LOS ANGELES — Jessica Alba, who married her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to baby girl, according to US Weekly magazine.
Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama “Dark Angel” and the movie “Fantastic Four,” announced last December that she was pregnant and engaged to Warren.
Alba met Warren, [...]

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Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live ‘Normal’ Life

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, England (DailyMail) - Finley Crampton really shouldn’t be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn’t take the risk.
After all, their first son had died of the condition and the second was born with serious kidney damage.
So when Finley’s [...]

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OUTRAGE: Video Shows Bystanders Ignoring 78-Year-Old Hit-and-Run Victim

HARTFORD, Conn. — A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the [...]

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Bush Gives Medal of Honor to Soldier Killed in Iraq

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday presented the nation’s highest military award to a 19-year-old soldier who died saving the lives of four comrades in Iraq by jumping on a grenade tossed into their military vehicle. The honored soldier, Army Pfc. Ross McGinnis, “gave all for his country,” the president said somberly.
“No one outside this [...]

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Man Jailed for Faking His Death

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341 ($243,600) in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The Straits Times said that Gandaruban Subramaniam fled Singapore more than 20 years ago [...]

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Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies at Age 79

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He [...]

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TV Comedy Legend Harvey Korman Dies at 81

LOS ANGELES (LA Times) - Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described “luminous second banana” for a decade on television’s “The Carol Burnett Show” and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 81.
Korman, who had undergone several major operations, died Thursday at UCLA [...]

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Crane Collapses in New York City; At Least 1 Dead

NEW YORK (AP) — A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York’s Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing one construction worker and seriously injuring two others.
It was the second deadly crane accident in 2 1/2 months in the city, which is undergoing a building boom.
“What [...]

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