PHILADELPHIA – The American Red Cross in Philadelphia says striking employees have blocked a blood delivery to a hospital. Red Cross spokesman Anthony Tornetta says members of Teamsters Local 929 had to be told Thursday that a 2-year-old child’s life depended on a blood delivery before they would get out …
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ORANGE, Calif. – A reality contestant wanted in the gruesome murder and mutilation of his ex-model wife didn’t start his 1,000-mile dash for his native Canada until 24 hours after her body was found and he moved out of his penthouse and picked up his speedboat, police said. A detailed …
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A former rocket scientist’s 56-foot-long houseboat — parked in his Florida backyard — has passers-by guessing whether they’ve gone into another dimension. “Most people think it’s a spaceship,” Dennis Schaller told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “It was originally designed to be a hovercraft. Now it looks like it’s going to …
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EXCLUSIVE: FOX News’ Greg Palkot is the only reporter traveling with a combined force of 500 Marines and Afghan soldiers who have begun an air and ground assault called Operation Eastern Resolve. The operation is aimed at liberating a key town in Northern Helmand province of Taliban control and to …
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Baltimore police say a burglary suspect laid on the floor of a convenience store for about a half-hour with a gunshot wound to the head before officers noticed he was still alive. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says 51-year-old Michael Quarles was shot by an officer after he lunged at the …
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday hailed the Russian victory in a war with Georgia a year ago, saying it showed the nation’s strength and boosted its role in the world. Medvedev vowed that Russia would not renege on its recognition of the independence of two breakaway …
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INDIO, Calif. – A Riverside County jury is considering whether a convicted killer is mentally fit to stand trial for the murder of a 10-year old boy in 1997. District attorney spokesman Michael Jeandron says opening statements began Monday in the mental competency trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III. Jeandron …
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A fugitive on a two-day rampage across Arkansas who police said had just fatally shot his pregnant former girlfriend was killed by a sheriff’s sniper Friday as he tried to escape from authorities. Todd Bostian, 32, had kidnapped 18-year-old Kacey Myers, police said, taking her along …
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BEIJING – Chinese police killed 12 people during July 5 rioting in the western city of Urumqi, officials said — a rare acknowledgment by the government that security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic clashes to hit the region in decades. The unrest began when a peaceful protest by …
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Maryland jurors have convicted a 16-year-old girl of soliciting the murder of her father who was stabbed to death outside the family’s Hagerstown home on Halloween. The Washington County Circuit Court deliberated about 90 minutes Wednesday before finding Danielle Black guilty of solicitation of first-degree murder. She …
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