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(CNN) — Wiping tears from his cheeks, a man who survived avalanches that killed eight snowmobilers in western Canada said Wednesday that he and two others tried to save their friends but eventually left the mountain because of the threat of more slides.
Jeffrey Adams says he freed himself and helped free two others before making a “gut-wrenching” decision to leave.

Jeffrey Adams says he freed himself and helped free two others before making a “gut-wrenching” decision to leave.

Jeffrey Adams, flanked by his fiancée, said he and the two other survivors “did everything we could to try to save” the eight Sunday.

“They died doing what they loved. … I’m truly sorry to the families that we couldn’t find them,” Adams said.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday.

Any offer would be coupled with a threat to send in ground troops if the rocket fire continues.

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(CNN) — The bodies of six of eight snowmobilers missing after avalanches in southeastern British Columbia have been found, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday.
Authorities found six bodies a day after avalanches in British Columbia, Canada.

Authorities found six bodies a day after avalanches in British Columbia, Canada.

Searchers will continue to look for the other two snowmobilers believed trapped in Sunday’s pair of avalanches near Fernie, British Columbia, Constable Louis Saule said.

All eight men — and three others who escaped — faced two avalanches Sunday afternoon about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) east of Fernie, a town in the Canadian Rockies about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest of Calgary, Alberta

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese dairy firms that sold baby formula tainted with the industrial chemical melamine will pay compensation to the families of nearly 300,000 children who were killed or sickened as a result, state media reported.

Twenty-two dairy producers will soon make one-off cash payments to the families, the Xinhua news agency cited the China Dairy Industry Association as saying on Saturday.

It did not disclose the size of the payments.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — A ninth body has been found in the rubble of a home that was set afire after a shooting rampage by a man in a Santa Claus suit, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Friday.
A car exploded outside the home of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who is suspected in the deaths of nine people.

A car exploded outside the home of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who is suspected in the deaths of nine people.

On Thursday night a pipe bomb exploded in a rental car used by the man suspected in the Christmas Eve attack, police said.

The car was parked outside a Sylmar, California, home where Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, committed suicide hours after he opened fire at a holiday party and then started a raging blaze inside a Covina, California, home, police said.

Investigators have yet to identify the charred bodies recovered from the burned house, which belonged to the parents of Pardo’s ex-wife. Eight bodies were found in the hours after the fire; the ninth person had been counted as missing. Video Watch how the massacre unfolded »

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Update: Now ninth body found ruins of home
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — At least three people were found dead after a man dressed as Santa Claus started shooting at a Christmas Eve party in suburban Los Angeles, police said Thursday.
Bruce Jeffery Pardo is a “person of interest” in the incident, authorities say.

Bruce Jeffery Pardo is a “person of interest” in the incident, authorities say.

An 8-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s were hospitalized with gunshot wounds that authorities do not consider life-threatening.

Crews took a third person to a hospital with an injury that wasn’t life-threatening and wasn’t caused by gunfire, said police in Covina, a city about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

The shooting started around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

When police arrived at the two-story house, they discovered a fire that caused “significant damage.” Authorities found three people dead inside but said they do not know how the three died. Their identities had not been released Thursday morning.

“There was some source of ignition that caused the fire,” Covina police Lt. Pat Buchanan said at a news conference Thursday morning. “We’ve not been able to identify it yet.”

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AP – In this Sunday, May 18, 2008 picture, David Spade arrives at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music …

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LOS ANGELES – The Phoenix Police Department has gotten some high-powered goodies courtesy of actor David Spade.

The one-time Phoenix resident donated $100,000 so that the department can buy approximately 50 AR-15 rifles.

Spade said he wanted to make the donation after seeing a TV news report about Phoenix officers having to buy their own rifles. Spade grew up in the Phoenix area and graduated from Arizona State University

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HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) — A deceased drifter long suspected in the abduction, murder and beheading of 6-year-old Adam Walsh committed the crime that put missing children on the national agenda, police said Tuesday.
Adam Walsh 6, disappeared from a mall in August, 1981. His head was found two weeks later, 120 miles away.

Adam Walsh 6, disappeared from a mall in August, 1981. His head was found two weeks later, 120 miles away.
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“If Ottis Toole was alive today, he would be arrested for the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh on July 27, 1981,” Hollywood Police Chief Chad Wagner said at an afternoon news conference announcing the end of the 27-year investigation.

The chief apologized to the boy’s parents, John and Reve Walsh, for what he called “lapses” in the initial investigation.

He added that there was no “magic” piece of evidence that led investigators to officially name a suspect now.

“This case could have been closed, and should have been closed years ago,” Wagner said.

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