ATLANTA – A 78-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on charges she shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home. Lena Sims Driskell (search) was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Herman Winslow …
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MORAG, Gaza Strip – Violence marred the first full day of the forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from their homes in the Gaza Strip (search) on Wednesday. An Israeli grabbed a gun from a security guard and sprayed a group of Palestinian laborers with gunfire in the West Bank settlement …
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SAN FRANCISCO – They’re being bred now by the millions, the mutants, created to carry the ghastliest of diseases for the benefit of the human race. Since researchers published the mouse’s entire genetic makeup in map form three years ago, increasingly exotic rodents are being created with relative ease. There’s …
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WASHINGTON – Note to the millions of people living near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: Be prepared to batten down the hatches, it’ll be a rougher than normal season for tropical storms. With seven storms, including two hurricanes, already recorded — a record for this early in the year — …
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MASHPEE, Mass. – An American Indian tribe that many believe shared the first Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims (search) is on the verge of receiving recognition from the federal government, but some of the tribe’s neighbors are a little nervous. The Wampanoag (search) tribe, according to legend, helped the struggling …
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When an Air France plane recently skidded off a runway in Toronto and burned, everyone on board survived. “Accidents are survivable,” says Cynthia Corbett, a human factors specialist at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute in Oklahoma City. Corbett gave WebMD advice about surviving a plane crash. Plan, …
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EL PASO, Texas – Apologizing for embarrassing the Army, a military intelligence interrogator admitted abusing an Afghan detainee who later died and was sentenced to two months in jail. Spc. Glendale C. Walls (search) pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty and assault. Besides the prison sentence, Walls was reduced …
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HONOLULU – Hawaii (search) will begin enforcing a cap on the wholesale price of gasoline next week, hoping to curb the sting of the nation’s highest gas costs. The limit would be the first time a state has capped the price of gasoline — a move critics warn could lead …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Same-sex couples who raise children are lawful parents and must provide for them if they break up, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The precedent-setting decision puts former gay and lesbian couples on equal ground with unmarried heterosexual couples who break up and marks the latest decision …
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