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Spanish police seize ‘largest, most sophisticated’ cocaine lab

By doris | Published: January 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Police in Madrid seized what they called the “largest and most sophisticated cocaine laboratory” in Europe known to date, and arrested 25 people, Spain’s national police said in a statement on Tuesday. Anti-drug agents confiscated 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of cocaine ready for distribution, 2 million euros [...]

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Winning the lottery: Does it guarantee happiness?

By doris | Published: January 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — She was a mother of three living in a small apartment and working four jobs. And then, as if in a fairy tale, she won her state’s lottery last year. But the story doesn’t have the happy ending you might expect. She didn’t do anything overly extravagant after the [...]

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Fiery package in DC triggers memories of anthrax

By doris | Published: January 8, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com WASHINGTON — Postal workers who returned to work Saturday said a package that ignited at a government mail facility conjured painful memories of the anthrax attacks that killed two of their colleagues in 2001. The fiery package found Friday, which was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, followed two packages that [...]

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Wild horse roundup triggers controversy

By doris | Published: January 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Silver Springs, Nevada (CNN) — The helicopter is on the chase. At first, you can only hear it. Then, from behind the hillside, you see a herd of wild horses running for their freedom, with the helicopter close behind. One escapes the trap, barely. The crowd cheers. This is the scene [...]

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Cops: 3 boys missing after dad’s suicide bid

By doris | Published: November 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MORENCI, Mich. — Authorities used planes and search dogs to scour areas along the Michigan-Ohio border Sunday, hoping to find three Michigan boys who were reported missing the same day their father tried to hang himself. Police in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, said they fear the boys are [...]

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Bodies of missing Ohio trio found in hollow tree

By doris | Published: November 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — An unemployed tree-trimmer — arrested after a teenage girl was found bound and gagged in his basement — pointed the way Thursday to a hollow tree where the bodies of her brother, mother and another woman were hidden in garbage bags. The three victims and the rescued [...]

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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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Two women, two children missing in Ohio

By doris | Published: November 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities and residents in rural Ohio searched Saturday for two women and two children who have been missing for several days. Blood was found in the Howard home of Tina Herrmann, 32, and her children Sarah Maynard, 13, and Kody Maynard, 10, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Friday. [...]

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California police find missing 3-year-old boy

By doris | Published: October 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 3-year-old California boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and sound, authorities said Sunday night. The boy, Dylan Kurihara, had been missing since Saturday after he attended a wedding with his father. A man who had heard about the missing boy found [...]

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Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

By doris | Published: September 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas [...]

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Nine years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Judson Box has never known exactly how his son, Gary, died on September 11, 2001. But an unexpected find nine years later has given him a glimpse into his son’s final hours. Gary, then 35, had been working as a firefighter in Brooklyn for roughly five years [...]

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ICE: 370 illegal immigrants arrested in 10 states

By doris | Published: August 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested nearly 400 illegal immigrants — including 347 with prior criminal convictions — over a three-day operation throughout the Midwest, the agency announced Friday. The arrests in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were part of the agency’s [...]

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Scientists question U.S. estimate on BP oil fallout

By doris | Published: August 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — Two new scientific reports Tuesday raised fresh fears about the environmental fallout from the world’s worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone. In one of the reports, researchers at the University [...]

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Joke on boat leads to four deaths

By doris | Published: August 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four men died after horsing around in a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir, authorities said late Monday. The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. [...]

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Second 2-year-old boy missing in Arizona

By doris | Published: August 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A second 2-year-old boy has gone missing in 10 days from Yavapai County, Arizona, authorities said Tuesday as they announced a major search effort under way for the toddler, identified as Emmett Trapp. Emmett’s disappearance is believed to be unrelated to the case of Sylar Newton, another 2-year-old who [...]

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Scientists discover monster star

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space. The star is not some scientist’s celestial dream. Astronomers used [...]

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Allen says seep has been detected, demands results from BP tests

By doris | Published: July 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Testing continues and scientists are evaluating the results to decide whether to resume collecting oil from BP’s ruptured deepwater well, the company said Monday. BP’s statement came hours after Thad Allen, the federal government’s oil spill response director, said that testing had revealed a “detected seep a distance from [...]

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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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Round-the-world teen sailor alive, well

By doris | Published: June 11, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com A 16-year-old Californian girl attempting to sail solo around the world is safe and well, her parents said, after a massive search and rescue operation was launched in the Indian Ocean when she triggered distress signals. Abby Sunderland was last heard from about 6 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, when she broke [...]

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‘Top kill’ fails, BP moves on ‘to next option’

By doris | Published: May 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Robert, Louisiana (CNN) — Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to “move on to the next option.” [...]

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