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Crew of Va. ship in piracy drama sues for $50M
More than half the crew members of a container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are suing for nearly $50 million, contending their captain ignored warnings to sail clear of pirate-infested waters off Africa.
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Mich. wildfire in UP grows to more than 21K acres
Officials say a wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has grown to slightly more than 21,000 acres.
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Charity: 9/11 widow died of natural causes
The 52-year-old widow of the man who captained a United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on 9/11 has died of what her charity says was natural causes.
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Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces
Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up two homeless people and a motel owner.
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Break in Patz brings hope, tears to other families
After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of "closure."
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Letters to judge about NJ webcam spying case
Following are excerpts from some of the letters Judge Glenn Berman received as he considered the sentence for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted in March of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and other charges for using his webcam to see roommate Tyler Clementi kissing another man. Clementi committed...
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Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility
Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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A year after rare twister, Mass. residents rebound
Pia Rogers still goes home every day, even though all that remains of her two-story farmhouse are two granite front steps.
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Flowers, dolls adorn site of NYC boy's '79 death
Well-wishers are leaving flowers, candles and dolls outside the New York City building where police say 6-year-old Etan Patz (AY'-tahn payts) was strangled in 1979.
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A year after rare twister, Mass. residents rebound
A year after tornadoes flattened hundreds of homes and left three dead in Massachusetts, one of the worst-hit neighborhoods is still undergoing a facelift.
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Letters asked judge for leniency in NJ webcam case
The letters came from a man who was once beaten with a baseball bat in a racially motivated attack, the widow of a Minnesota judge, a group representing lesbian, gay and transgendered people from South Asia, a gay member of the Navy, and the father of a woman who committed suicide, among others.








