 | Falwell dies at age 73 (News)
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died, a Liberty University executive said Tuesday. He was 73.
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| Teen 'sport killings' of homeless on the rise (News)
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All Nathan Moore says he wanted to do was smoke pot and get drunk with his friends.
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| One-eyed gator pulls golfer into pond (News)
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A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said.
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| Florida housing sex offenders under bridge (News)
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The sparkling blue waters off Miami's Julia Tuttle Causeway look as if they were taken from a postcard. But the causeway's only inhabitants see little paradise in their surroundings.
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| Pirates seize French yacht (News)
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Pirates seized control of a French luxury yacht carrying 30 crew members Friday in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast, the French government and the ship's owner said.
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| Rape victim is jailed on old warrant (News)
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A college student who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
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| Fed up station owner shuts off gas pumps (News)
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Motorists pulled in to Harvey Pollack's gas station, honked and gave him a thumbs-up -- because he wasn't selling any fuel.
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| Sony touts tiny, film-thin TV screen that bends (News)
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In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all -- a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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| Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space (News)
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Brian Emmett's childhood fantasy came true when he won a free trip to outer space.
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| Astronaut Wally Schirra, fifth American in space, dies at 84 (News)
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Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said.
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| Report: 'Pillow angel' surgery broke law (News)
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A hospital that performed a controversial procedure that stunted the growth and sexual development of a profoundly disabled child violated Washington state law by sterilizing her, according to an inve..
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| Judge's missing pants lead to big suit (News)
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A missing pair of pants has led to one big suit.
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| NRA opposes bill to stop gun sales to terror suspects (News)
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The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms.
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| Rev. Jerry Falwell dies at age 73 (News)
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television minister whose 1979 founding of the Moral Majority galvanized American religious conservatives into a political force, died Tuesday at age 73.
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| Shipwreck yields historic riches -- $500M worth (News)
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Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atla..
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 | MDA Upper Management "Rap" (Video)
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The top dogs at MDA outline their vision in the form of a *creative* rap video...
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| Study: Abstinence programs no guarantee (News)
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Students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.
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| Zimbabwe to head key U.N. body (News)
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Zimbabwe won approval on Friday to head a key U.N. body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental protection despite protests from the U.S., European nations and human rights organiza..
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| School to test for students' weekend drinking (News)
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Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consu..
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| Minimum wage increase gets short-changed in Senate (News)
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The minimum wage increase that was supposed to zip through Congress veered off course Wednesday as lawmakers argued over business tax breaks that would be attached to ensure Republican support.
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| Cops: Homeless patient 'dumped' on Skid Row (News)
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A hospital van dropped off a paraplegic man on Skid Row, allegedly leaving him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag, police said.
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| 'Delusional' Iraq plans envisaged only 5,000 troops by now, group says (News)
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Some of the planning by Gen. Tommy Franks and other top military officials before the 2003 invasion of Iraq envisioned that as few as 5,000 U.S. troops would remain in Iraq by December 2006, according..
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| MIT dean resigns in lying scandal (News)
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The dean of admissions at one of America's most prestigious schools resigned on Thursday after the university discovered she had lied about her academic credentials.
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| Executed man's last request honored -- pizza for homeless (News)
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Hundreds of homeless people in Nashville, Tennessee, ate well Wednesday evening -- all in the name of a man who the state put to death just hours earlier.
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| Bush uses bin Laden to defend Iraq war policy (News)
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President Bush used declassified intelligence about Osama bin Laden Wednesday to defend his Iraq war policy.
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