NEW YORK – A New York man who was drunk when he fell into the path of a subway train and lost part of his leg has been awarded $2.3 million by a jury. Dustin Dibble, of Brooklyn, has admitted that he was so drunk he doesn’t even remember the …
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Bridget Marquardt may have left “The Girls Next Door” for her own show, “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still enjoy some time by the pool. Marquardt did a photo shoot Monday in an eye-popping one-piece as cameras rolled. PHOTOS: Click for hot pics of Bridget and …
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NOME, Alaska – Make it three Iditarods in a row for Lance Mackey. The musher from Fairbanks won the 1,100-mile trek across the Alaska wilderness Wednesday in the world’s most famous sled dog race. And it wasn’t even close. Mackey slapped hands with fans along Nome’s Front Street and was …
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FARGO, North Dakota – An American journalist detained in Iran showed no signs of physical torture during a prison visit from a lawyer sent by her father, he said Sunday. The lawyer did not see any visible signs that the man’s daughter had been tortured during his visit Sunday, but …
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A brave little girl suffering from cancer will be one of the first British children to take part in a clinical trial to try to beat the disease. Sophie McGuire, 2, who has an aggressive form of neuroblastoma, will be treated with immunotherapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. …
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PORTLAND, Maine – The remnants of Hurricane Bill lost the characteristics of a tropical cyclone as it moved farther north in the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said Monday, a day after the storm’s powerful winds churned up waves that were blamed in the deaths of at least two people in the …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Hoping stormy skies clear in time, NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour for a sixth launch attempt Wednesday, the eve of the 40th anniversary of the liftoff for the first moon landing. Endeavour, in fact, was poised at the very spot where Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Buzz …
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BOSTON – A U.S. Marine was arrested Sunday morning at Boston’s Logan International Airport after screeners found bomb-making materials, a gun and ammunition in his checked baggage, state police and security officials said. Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Ann Davis said 22-year-old Cpl. Justin Reed, of Jacksonville, N.C., was booked on …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state’s wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to approve the standards, which are expected to create a new market for alternative fuels and could …
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The most effective therapies for menopause (search) symptoms can have serious side effects and individual women need better information to help them make a decision on what is best for them, a National Institutes of Health consensus panel said Wednesday. The group called for more research involving a variety of …
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