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South Carolina authorities search for missing toddler

By doris | Published: January 27, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in South Carolina searched intently Thursday for a missing toddler who was last seen nearly two months ago, and whose pregnant mother has been charged with cruelty toward a child. Columbia police Chief Randy Scott told Vinnie Politan, of CNN’s sister network HLN, that law enforcement launched their [...]

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Good News at Last: Chocolate Is Good for You! Maybe

By doris | Published: October 30, 2011

Full Story at The Atlantic.com In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the British Medical Journal offers some cheery news. A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on chocolate and health concludes that the flavonol antioxidants in chocolate reduce the risk for cardiometabolic disorders such as heart disease and stroke–by a whopping one-third. As the investigators [...]

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Boy Found Safe In Tree After Disappearing Again

By doris | Published: October 27, 2011

Full Story at WMUR.com HAMPSTEAD, N.H. — A 9-year-old boy who went missing from his home twice in one week is out of police headquarters but apparently isn’t going home. Devin Frenette was taken from the Hampstead Police Department in an unmarked cruiser about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday but was not taken to his home. Police [...]

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Obama: Iran ‘Will Pay a Price’ for Assassination Plot

By doris | Published: October 13, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com President Barack Obama said today that Iran will “pay a price” through sanctions and international pressure for its recent hostile behavior including the alleged Iran-directed plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Echoing previous statements by top U.S. officials, Obama said that when dealing with [...]

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US official: Blast in Michigan was from car bomb

By doris | Published: September 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MONROE, Mich. — A blast that turned a vehicle along a Michigan street into a blackened shell and seriously injured an attorney and his two sons was the result of a car bomb, police said Wednesday. Emergency responders rushed to the site of the Tuesday evening explosion near a highway underpass [...]

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Report: Missing Calif. autistic boy found safe

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A missing autistic boy was found Tuesday afternoon after he ran away from school and into the San Bernardino National Forest, NBC Los Angeles reported. Dozens of searchers had been scouring the mountains for Joshua Robb after he fled into the woods near his school Monday morning, [...]

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Search under way for 10 oil workers in Gulf of Mexico

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company searched in rough seas Friday for 10 workers missing from a U.S.-owned oil vessel in the tropical-storm-roiled Gulf of Mexico. The workers, contracted by Texas-based Geokinetics, abandoned ship Thursday afternoon after Tropical Storm Nate caused their liftboat to take on water in the Bay of [...]

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Rembrandt work stolen from California hotel

By doris | Published: August 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — A drawing by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000, was stolen from a hotel in Southern California in what sheriff’s investigators said was a well-planned heist.Story: Mobile scanner brings x-rays to old paintings The pen-and-ink drawing, believed to be called “The Judgment,” was nabbed Saturday night while a [...]

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Survivors tell of dread, loss after Missouri tornado

By doris | Published: May 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com JOPLIN, Mo. — From heroism, to disbelief to shock. Those were some of the stories being told by survivors of the Joplin twister. Below are some of those initial reactions to the tragedy.‘Felt like the building was breathing’Rod Pace, Med Flight manager at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, watched the tornado [...]

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A guide to headache remedies

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Real Simple) — Head hurts? Try one of these doctor-approved pain relievers. Relaxation techniques Best for: Soothing stress before a headache starts. How they work: Simple deep breathing and stretching (neck and shoulder rolls, in particular) relax tense muscles that trigger headaches, says Sheena Aurora, M.D., the director of the Swedish [...]

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La. spillway to be opened; 25,000 people could be in harm’s way of floods

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s populated Cajun country. About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in [...]

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Terror plot against New York synagogue busted

By doris | Published: May 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Two men suspected of planning an attack on a New York synagogue have been arrested, marking the end of a seven-month undercover operation carried out by New York police officers. The suspects, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who were detained Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan, had not [...]

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South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

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Oil sinks below $100

By doris | Published: May 5, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Oil prices plunged more than 8% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude to its biggest one-day drop since April 2009. The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery settled down $9.44, or 8.6%, to $99.80 a barrel. That’s its lowest level since [...]

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Bin Laden unarmed when killed, White House says

By doris | Published: May 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden was not armed but did put up resistance when U.S. forces entered the compound he was in and killed him, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. Providing some new details of the events that transpired early Monday in Pakistan, Carney said U.S. Navy [...]

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Twister debris searched for victims; death toll rises to 280

By doris | Published: April 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Survivors and rescuers combed through destroyed towns and neighborhoods on Thursday, looking for belongings and victims after dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South overnight. The death toll continued to climb in Alabama, and at least 280 people in six states perished in the deadliest outbreak in nearly [...]

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American college students a no-show in Acapulco

By doris | Published: March 29, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Acapulco, Mexico (CNN) — For the past 18 years, folk musician Raymundo Oregon has been playing his accordion in one of Mexico’s favorite destinations for international tourists: the beach resort of Acapulco. The 56-year-old knows the seasons and the tourists. He’s seen the good times and the bad, and this is [...]

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180K flee as Japan’s nuke-plant crisis intensifies

By doris | Published: March 13, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com KORIYAMA, Japan – Japanese officials warned of a possible second explosion Sunday at a nuclear plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami as they raced to stave off multiple reactor meltdowns, but they provided few details about whether they were making progress. More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area, and [...]

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Toddler reportedly locked in plane’s overhead bin

By doris | Published: March 6, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com A Virgin Blue flight attendant was fired after an angry mother claimed he locked her toddler son in an overhead bin, the Sunday Herald Sun reports. Natalie Williamson told the newspaper that she, her 17-month-old son, Riley, and her now estranged husband were traveling on a Virgin flight from Fiji to Sydney, [...]

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Police question woman in buttocks injection death

By doris | Published: February 9, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com PHILADELPHIA — Police questioned a New Jersey woman and were seeking a second woman for questioning in the case of a London woman who died after receiving cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport. Investigators issued a search warrant at the Bergen County, N.J., home of [...]

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