MIAMI – Authorities are investigating more than a dozen horse killings in South Florida, apparently at the hands of people butchering the animals for their meat. The latest horse was found butchered Sunday along a rural Miami road on the edge of the Everglades. Miami-Dade police say the horse had …
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LONDON – The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line. A government-commissioned report recommended that organs donated within the state-run National Health Service should stay within …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse thousands at a graveside memorial Thursday for victims of post-election violence, witnesses and state television said. Demonstrations that drew thousands more later spread to other parts of the capital Tehran and more clashes with …
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TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in …
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OTISFIELD, Maine – The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night. Town officials also threatened to chain themselves to the blue box …
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UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania woman is suing McDonald’s saying her 11-year-old grandson was scalded by hot coffee in a cup served with a loose lid in a drive-through lane. Cheryl Cornair of Washington Township, Fayette County, says the boy was burned May 24 at the McDonald’s on Route …
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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. – A 10-vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike killed five people in one car and injured several others on Saturday afternoon. Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando said it appeared that nine cars and a tractor-trailer were involved in the fiery crash in the turnpike’s southbound lanes …
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SLIDELL, La. – Police say a naked man who appeared to be drunk or on drugs broke into a Louisiana home, cooked himself a meal and took a shower before leaving, wrapped only in a sheet. The 61-year-old homeowner was away visiting her son at the time her suburban New …
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MEXICO CITY – Federal agents have captured two of 53 inmates who escaped from a prison in northern Mexico last month as its guards apparently stood by, federal police said Thursday. Marcos Espinoza and Osvaldo Garcia were detained Wednesday in Mexico’s central state of Hidalgo along with six alleged members …
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The lawyer for the Army psychiatrist accused in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says the suspected gunman was “coherent” when he spoke to him and he is “aware that he’s a suspect,” The Associated Press reported. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s attorney is retired Col. John P. Galligan, who has …
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