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submitted by Augie Brown for team Batboy's revenge! 82 weeks 6 hours 32 minutes ago
The sea, a thing of infinite mystery, was up to its mysterious ways Monday on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
At high noon, in the middle of low tide, two large pieces of a wrecked 19th century clipper ship decided to poke out above the sand and reveal...(more)
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A knife-welding burglar stabbed a woman and two Berkeley firefighters early Monday before he was found hiding under a deck and arrested by police.
Police arrested Michael Kenard Cornelius, a 53-year-old transient, who they found under a deck at a home in the 2000 block of Parker...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 19 weeks 3 days 5 hours 24 minutes ago
An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a professional soccer team and others, the FBI said.
Members of...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 57 weeks 1 day 7 hours 43 minutes ago
Step away from that pumpkin! While we're more than happy to get into the swing of Halloween, we refuse to do a roundup of the trite and not-so-true haunted hotels around the world. Nonetheless, in our travels we've happened upon a number of places that are...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 19 weeks 6 days 23 hours 48 minutes ago
The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled with a teetering financial system, a slumping dollar and rising prices for food and fuel.
The Labor Department reported that soaring costs for gasoline and food pushed...(more)
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MODENA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died early on Thursday after a long battle with cancer, his manager Terri Robson said.
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submitted by Augie Brown 14 weeks 2 days 20 hours 9 minutes ago
Economic trouble has spread far beyond the United States to major countries in Europe and Asia, threatening American businesses with the loss of foreign sales and investment that have become increasingly vital to their sustenance.
Only a few months ago, some economists still offered hope that robust...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 11 weeks 6 days 5 hours 36 minutes ago
Some Texas residents who have special medical needs in the Corpus Christi area were being told to evacuate in advance of Hurricane Ike as it steams into the Gulf of Mexico.
To help these residents who need to get out of harm's way, Nueces County expected to...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown for team Batboy's revenge! 82 weeks 6 hours 35 minutes ago
Imagine: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, staring you down from across the table.
Intimidation factor - stratospheric.
Not for 11-year-old Ariel Hsing of San Jose. The sixth-grader at Evergreen Elementary School bested the both of them in table tennis Sunday, part of the festivities surrounding the annual shareholders...(more)
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One minute, Devin Funck was a typical kid living a typical life in suburban Slidell, spending a lazy summer afternoon swimming with four friends in a lake near his home. The next minute, he was being dragged by his arm through the waters of Crystal Lake,...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 56 weeks 9 hours 15 minutes ago
More than a dozen people, including eight children, were homeless today after an apparent electrical fire burned four buildings in the 1700 block of Summer Street, just off Washington north of downtown Houston.
"We lost everything, the baby's clothes, furniture, everything," said Laura Cervantes, who fled one...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 56 weeks 9 hours 17 minutes ago
For the smallest and most vulnerable among Tabasco state's flood victims, the Villahermosa Women's Hospital provides shelter from the storm.
Doctors at the gleaming new hospital, which sits on high ground in the waterlogged city, have delivered 62 babies from women made homeless by the floods. Some...(more)
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