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Oranges, grapefruits lower women’s stroke risk

By doris | Published: February 26, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com A diet rich in citrus fruits, such as oranges and grapefruits, may reduce women’s risk of stroke, a new study says. In the study, women who ate the most citrus fruit had a 19 percent lower risk of having an ischemic stroke than women who ate the least. In an ischemic [...]

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Craigslist ad victim? Police identify another body

By doris | Published: December 4, 2011

Full Story at USNewsmsnbc.msn.com CLEVELAND — Authorities identified the body of an Ohio man Saturday who could be the third victim of a bogus Craigslist website ad that lured two jobseekers to their deaths. The body of Ralph H. Geiger, 56, was found in a shallow grave Nov. 25 in the same area another body [...]

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FBI: Man took cab from home to rob bank, then rode to work

By doris | Published: June 24, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — The FBI has arrested a man accused of putting on a suit and tie, robbing a South Florida bank and then leaving in a taxi. Jeffrey Harrington, 27, of North Miami, is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday morning. He was arrested [...]

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Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure

By doris | Published: April 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, [...]

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Rodney King beating 20 years later: Can’t we all just get along?

By doris | Published: March 3, 2011

Full Story at thegrio.com This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beating, an incident which shone the spotlight on police brutality and race relations in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. On March 3, 1991, King — who was driving with two of his friends in his white Hyundai — was [...]

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Oprah’s secret? She has a half-sister

By doris | Published: January 24, 2011

Full Story atTODAY.msnbc.msn.com CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey has discovered she has a half-sister — a Milwaukee woman who was given up for adoption by Winfrey’s mother nearly 50 years ago, when the talk show host was eight years old. An emotional Winfrey introduced her newly found sibling to viewers Monday and explained the woman’s persistent [...]

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Daughter snatched from hospital reunited with mom 23 years later

By doris | Published: January 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — In 1987, an anguished, trembling Joy White pleaded for someone to help her find her infant daughter. “I hope she’s all right,” the heartbroken mother told reporters at the time before collapsing in tears. Now, 23 years later, White is crying tears of joy as the decades-long mystery of [...]

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Man with the golden voice reunites with his mother

By doris | Published: January 6, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.com.msnbc.com Tune into TODAY on Friday morning to watch an interview with Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice, and his mother Julia Williams. Ted Williams, the homeless man-turned-star who wowed the world with his golden pipes, reunited with his mother, Julia Williams, on Thursday after about 20 years apart. When [...]

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Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.

By doris | Published: November 27, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com PORTLAND, Ore. – Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said. The bomb was a dud supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities [...]

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Girl safe, arrest made in Ohio missing family case

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com HOWARD, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her. Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his [...]

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Arrest made in Los Angeles Grim Sleeper serial killer case

By doris | Published: July 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in California said Wednesday they have arrested a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case and will charge him with 10 counts of murder. Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57, faces an additional count of attempted murder, Capt. Kevin McClure with the Los Angeles Police Department said. Franklin [...]

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Abducted 4-year-old girl found in car wash

By doris | Published: July 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ST. LOUIS — A 4-year-old girl taken from her Louisiana, Mo., front yard has been found alive 80 miles away near St. Louis, NBC News reported late Tuesday. Alisa Maier was dropped off at a car wash, NBC said. She was being treated at a hospital but there was no word [...]

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U.S. works to expedite adoptions of Haitian children

By doris | Published: January 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. government announced Monday that it has eased the requirements for orphaned children from Haiti to enter the United States on a temporary basis. The move is being made to ensure they get needed care after last week’s earthquake in Haiti, said Department of Homeland Security Secretary [...]

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Haitians in U.S. wait for news and worry

By doris | Published: January 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — With phone lines down and communication cut, Haitians living in America are “sick with worry” and scrambling for information about loved ones who experienced Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake on the island nation. “At this point it looks like it’s worse than we all imagined and we still don’t know specifics [...]

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Missing boy spent 11 days wandering New York subways

By doris | Published: November 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger’s syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York’s vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons’ poster, according to police and the youth’s mother. Francisco Hernandez Jr., who has Asperger’s, a developmental disorder that affects the [...]

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