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VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.
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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a baby sitter in South Carolina watching a 3-year-old girl who died in her care beat the girl with a belt after she used the bathroom on the floor.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court says state police mishandled a prostitution investigation in which they gave a private citizen $360 so he could pay for sex at a massage parlor along with $180 for his trouble.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A campus religious leader is unhappy about a study at Duke University that invites female students to attend parties where they can buy sex toys.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbor said Friday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — "Just get a doctor over here!" the desperate 10-year-old boy begs a 911 operator. "Please hurry up. It looks like he's dying."
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HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey jury has rejected a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to kill his former son-in-law and has convicted him of murder.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Police have released a 911 recording in which a young woman reports seeing a drunken, naked girl whom officers later said had been gang-raped on a high school campus.
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CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) — Investigators spent five days searching dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old with a baby face told investigators he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor in a bathtub then hid the body in a dryer because the child was going to reveal the teen molested him, according to an affidavit released when he appeared in court Wednesday.
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A Will County man accused of attacking four female victims in separate incidents has been found guilty of trying to kidnap a teenage girl.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police and health officials say a refrigerated truck carrying H1N1 vaccine has been recovered after being stolen from outside a swine flu clinic in Milwaukee.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
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DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Teammates and family members threw roses and softballs Wednesday into the farm pond where three North Dakota college softball players were found dead inside their sunken sport utility vehicle.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — The lawyer for a Florida man who claims he's too fat to have killed his former son-in-law told jurors Wednesday that all they have to do is look at his client to see that he's obese, old and in no condition to have committed such a murder.
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — A man caught having sex with a horse in a South Carolina stable has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard's disappearance stretched into decades.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee sought Wednesday to sue the state for $150 million, saying officials failed to prevent the attack.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge who sentenced a man for taking nude photos of his underage girlfriend during sex asked why the man was prosecuted for child pornography and said some people just like to photograph their sexual activities.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina businessman who coached basketball at the religious school where his teenagers attended classes fatally shot his family in their upscale home before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Bug spray that produces a fog to kill insects is likely to blame for the death of a 10-month-old South Carolina boy, and his 2-year-old brother was critically injured by the fumes, authorities said Monday.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — A seventh suspect has been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance.
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