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BERGHOLZ, Ohio -- Smoke pours from the chimney of the white, two- story home. Figures move inside, past the large front windows.
Signs of life. Something is happening inside Samuel Mullet Sr.'s house. But when an outsider knocks, no one opens the door.
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A moderate Islamist party that had been banned for decades in Tunisia appeared headed for victory Monday in the region's first elections of the Arab Spring.
A win by the Ennahda, or Renaissance, party in the relatively secular North African country could portend Islamist gains in elections scheduled to take place in Egypt and Libya over the coming year.
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Officials 17 years ago described Steven D. Stanbary as a ticking time bomb.
Diagnosed with delusional schizophrenia, Stanbary felt the end of the world was coming and wanted to stockpile weapons for that eventuality, according to police reports detailing his arrest in 1994.
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DAYTON -- As he sat in a Dayton police cruiser en route to the Montgomery County Jail, 20-year-old Kylen English told the police officer behind the wheel "I want to die.
English also asked the officer, "Do you believe you go to heaven if you kill yourself?"
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The disgraced school police officer whose tale of being shot led to a massive manhunt and disrupted life for thousands of West Valley residents, was described Friday as an eager-to-please neighbor whose elaborate Christmas decorations rivaled all others on his quiet Santa Clarita cul-de-sac.
Jeff Stenroos, 30, was released on $20,000 bail late Thursday, hours after he was arrested on suspicion of filing a false police report.
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WASHINGTON - The straight-out-of-pulp-fiction plot by alleged Iranian operatives to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington was so badly bungled that investigators initially were skeptical that the Iranian government was behind it, U.S. official said.
Officials laying out the details of the case admitted their own early doubts about an Iranian role as they sought to counter wider skepticism and confusion about the unusual scheme, one that happens to carry far-reaching international consequences.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - As the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Sunday, friends and family of the last American fighter killed in combat were cherishing their memories rather than dwelling on whether the war and his sacrifice was worth it.
Nearly 4,500 American fighters died before the last U.S. troops crossed the border into Kuwait. David Hickman, 23, of Greensboro was the last of those war casualties, killed in November by the kind of improvised bomb that was a signature weapon of this war.
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The credit crisis is mostly behind us. That's the good news. But that doesn't mean we are going back to the easy credit period of the last decade--far...
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Turner's celebration of the Fourth of July this year included observance of the town's 225th anniversary. This beautiful town on the west bank of the Androscoggin River has a proud history, as well as a fascinating period of settlement in the century before its formal incorporation.
In fact, its earliest grant to proprietors by the Massachusetts court erroneously placed the land in New Hampshire.