BOSTON – Two Massachusetts girls and the brother who stabbed them to death are being mourned at a single funeral service. Family and friends gathered Saturday morning at the Jubilee Christian Church in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood for a funeral for the siblings. A week ago, 17-year-old Samantha Revelus and her …
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AURORA, Colorado – A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints allegedly operated a pyramid scheme from his suburban Denver home for about 15 years, bilking investors out of millions of dollars to collect religious art and classic cars. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District …
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OSCEOLA, La. – Casey Aldridge, the father of actress Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby, and two of his four passengers were thrown from his 2008 Ford F-250 pickup when it rolled over in Louisiana, state police said Monday. No one in the truck was wearing a seat belt. Trooper Mark Dennis …
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The Hubble Space Telescope’s legendary Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has produced one of its last images, a gorgeous shot of a planetary nebula. The nebula, a colorful cloud of gas and dust named Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55), has an eye that appears to be looking right back …
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TBILISI, Georgia – Georgia said it had ended a brief mutiny at a military base near the capital on Tuesday that broke out after the arrest of a former special forces commander accused of planning to disrupt NATO exercises. President Mikhail Saakashvili said in a televised address that the mutiny …
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A DNA expert is reportedly testifying for the prosecution in the trial of American suspect Amanda Knox, accused of killing her British roommate while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Police forensic expert Patrizia Stefanoni analyzed DNA found at the apartment where British student Meredith Kercher was fatally stabbed in 2007. …
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Jockey Rene Douglas may be paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a race at Arlington Park in suburban Chicago, his agent said. Agent Dennis Cooper said Douglas spent seven hours in surgery on Sunday at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital and afterward doctors told him …
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KENNEWICK, Wash. – Detectives, deputies and about 50 specially trained volunteers seized more than 400 dogs from what Humane Society officials called one of the nation’s largest and worst puppy mills. “The conditions were not only shocking, but also heartbreaking to veteran deputies,” said Benton County Sheriff Larry Taylor, who …
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WASHINGTON – Deterred by immigration laws and the lackluster economy, the population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the U.S. has slowed unexpectedly, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade. Census data released Thursday also showed that …
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PENN HILLS, Pa. – A Pittsburgh-area teenager has been suspended from middle school when a random search turned up an eyebrow shaver in her handbag. Officials at Linton Middle School in Penn Hills recommended at a Wednesday disciplinary hearing that 15-year-old Taylor Ray Jetter be expelled for the rest of …
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