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Federal officials handed over control of the Philadelphia Housing Authority to a new local board Friday, ending Washington's two-year receivership of the beleaguered agency.
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The growth of micro-breweries in Israel is under threat by the introduction of a new beer tax announced this week.
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A man arrested over the stabbing of a school head teacher outside her Rochdale home is accused of attempted murder.
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An investigation is to be launched after a major fire destroyed part of a roof at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) dismissed talk Friday that he might take a second run at passing new gun laws, even as a new poll found voters in the state giving him high marks for backing a bipartisan plan to expand background checks.
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Manchester-born Menelik Watson is drafted by the Oakland Raiders in round two of the 2013 NFL Draft in New York.
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Saying witness intimidation is a national issue, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) urged Friday that threatening or harming witnesses be made a federal crime.
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Without realizing, or caring, that a marked police car with two uniformed officers was right behind him, police said, a 24-year-old man on a bicycle rode into a busy Kensington intersection in broad daylight Friday and fatally shot the driver of a Cadillac in the head....(more)
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George Bunn, 87, a leading figure in the field of arms control who helped draft and negotiate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, limiting the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide, died April 21 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He had spinal cancer, said his...(more)
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'I've always needed to decide what I am. And for most of my life I have been a Miss'Tracey Emin has decreed that women shouldn't be called Miss unless they are under 10 or over 70. What we're supposed to be for all that complicated time in the...(more)
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Buddhist leader, group to host gathering to teach activists, young students ways of handling turbulenceMost of the CeaseFire interrupters sat up in their chairs and closed their eyes, following the quiet direction of the small man in yellow and orange robes at the head of the...(more)
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Medical examiner reclassifies bathtub drowning as homicideThe day Cynthia Hrisco was found dead near the whirlpool bath of her South Barrington home, her husband told police he might have killed her but could not remember, officials said.
