ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Alexandria Police Chief David Baker is resigning following his arrest on drunken driving charges. The 58-year-old will retire effective Friday. Baker was charged with drunken driving after he was involved in a car accident in Arlington over the weekend. He had blood-alcohol level of 0.19, more than …
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – An American woman and an Iraqi-born associate are charged with misusing some of the $350,000 the United Nations gave them to start a radio station to promote women’s rights in Iraq. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has accused Deborah Bowers and Steve Jabar, who ran a not-for-profit group …
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PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Coast Guard, Philadelphia police and others are searching for a man and a child missing in the Delaware River. The Coast Guard says it began with a family boating trip. A 9-year-old boy went off the boat Friday night and two men jumped in the water …
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POCATELLO, Idaho – An eastern Idaho judge who lost patience with the disruptive behavior of a defendant ordered court officials to tape the man’s mouth shut with duct tape during a court hearing. The unusual move was ordered by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation violation hearing …
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – William Parente was a successful Manhattan lawyer who apparently had a side business lending money at high interest rates — deals that may have cost his investors as much as $20 million. The revelations about his financial dealings came not long after the 59-year-old tax lawyer …
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BANGKOK – A train derailed during heavy rains Monday near Thailand’s coastal city of Hua Hin, killing 7 people, including a 2-year-old girl, and injuring 88 others, officials said. The train jumped the tracks as it approached a station before dawn near the popular resort on the Gulf of Thailand …
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Iran’s opposition supporters, faced with a senior cleric’s demand that protest leaders be severely punished or even executed, enter the third week of their campaign against the disputed presidential election in increasingly tight straits. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the election, says he will …
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There’s always a scene in zombie movies when one non-zombie character will turn to another, and say: “If I ever turn into that, I want you to kill me.” Then they make love and reload. Well, I want you, dear viewer, to make the same promise to me. Except instead …
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MEXICO CITY – Eight Mexican law enforcement officers were killed Saturday in a brazen attack on a police convoy transporting an important drug suspect to a prison in western Mexico. Gunmen killed four federal police officers, two federal investigative agents and two prison employees in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent …
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ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan army says it has killed more than 50 militants in an operation to halt a push by Taliban militants toward the capital Islamabad. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas also said Wednesday that one member of the security forces was killed and more than 50 others …
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