Retailers, marketers and online scammers are finding a way to cash in on the swine flu craze with fashionable surgical masks, iPhone flu tracking applications, test kits and even bogus survival kits and vaccines. The Better Business Bureau said that already 2 percent of all spam is about swine flu …
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LOS ANGELES – A man was convicted Thursday of carving up cadavers donated to UCLA’s medical school and selling the parts to unsuspecting medical research companies in a $1.5 million scheme. Jurors found Ernest Nelson, 51, guilty of eight counts, including grand theft and tax evasion. Prosecutors said Nelson could …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistani security forces killed nine militants, including two commanders, in weekend battles in the northwestern Swat Valley, the military said Sunday. Pakistan has largely beaten back a Taliban insurgency in Swat in recent months and intelligence officials say the country is preparing a major offensive against Al …
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INDIANAPOLIS – An Indianapolis man has been convicted in the 2006 murders of seven members of one family, including three children. Marion Superior Court Judge Robert Altice issued the guilty verdict Thursday at the conclusion of the trial of 31-year-old Desmond Turner. Turner waived his right to a jury trial …
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David Letterman’s surprise announcement last Thursday that he had engaged in affairs with female staffers earned him high ratings and laughs from his audience members, but one woman who was not laughing was the “Late Show” host’s wife, Regina Lasko. It was Lasko who demanded Letterman’s second public apology on …
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Ten suspected militants and one police officer have been killed in the volatile southern provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya in three separate incidents, officials said. Regional Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said that four militants were killed Saturday in the Sergo-Kala district in Dagestan after they opened …
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LOS ANGELES – The biggest wildfire in Los Angeles County history is finally fully contained. The U.S. Forest Service says the 250-square-mile Station Fire was declared 100 percent contained at 7 p.m. Friday, 52 days after it began. Authorities had kept the containment figure at 98 percent since late September …
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AKRON, Ohio – A woman has been sentenced to a year of probation for attacking a fellow exotic dancer in the face with a stiletto heel at an Ohio club. In a deal with prosecutors, 22-year-old Chetania Davis pleaded guilty in Akron Tuesday to a misdemeanor assault charge in the …
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NEW YORK – Jennifer Hudson returns to her hometown of Chicago for an ABC prime-time special, “Jennifer Hudson: I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” that will air in December. Hudson’s return home follows the slaying of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in Chicago last year. The network says the 28-year-old …
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PARIS – A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie’s passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost their lives in the mid-Atlantic. The survivors say their relief is overshadowed by the immense sense …
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