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TYLER, Texas – More than 1,000 mourners gathered Saturday at a funeral service for a Wal-Mart clerk whose chilling abduction was captured on surveillance videotape. Friends and family remembered Megan LeAnn Holden (search), 19, as a beautiful, compassionate young woman known for her smile. Photos of Holden growing up — …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. military forces experienced their deadliest day in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war as 31 personnel died in a helicopter crash and another six died in insurgent attacks. Lt. Gen. John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (search) in Iraq, said 30 …

FORT HOOD, Texas – A Syrian insurgent held at Abu Ghraib prison testified by video Tuesday that Army Spc. Charles Graner (search) merrily whistled, sang and laughed while brutalizing him and forced him to eat pork and drink alcohol in violation of his Muslim faith. An Iraqi detainee later told …