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KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan‘s vice president told a visiting U.S. delegation that the country opposed a proposal to deploy international peacekeepers to Darfur, but was committed to negotiations to end tensions in the region, state media reported Monday. Despite the Sudanese objections, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Monday accused the …

NEW ORLEANS – Mardi Gras in the Big Easy used to be best known for three things: beads, booze and boobs. And only six months after the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras is still New Orleans’ biggest celebration. In the areas of the city that weren’t damaged severely, …

LOS ANGELES – Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western “Gunsmoke” and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in “McCloud,” has died. The actor was 81. Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, his publicist …