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Two municipal police officers were shot dead Tuesday while patrolling the northwestern Mexican city of Tijuana, officials said.
The officers were killed at the Paseo de los Heroes, a high- security venue because of its proximity to the public prosecutor's office.
On Monday, officials paid tribute to another municipal police...
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 Friday, actress
Heather Locklear pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge following a
September incident that resulted in her being arrested for driving under the
influence of prescription drugs.
Santa Barbara Assistant District Attorney Lee
Carter informed that the 47-year-old actress had been sentenced to three...
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 An Arab sheikh sued Michael Jackson after he had claimed that the pop star owes him $7 million. But Jackson’s attorney said on Tuesday that the singer might be in a serious illness condition that doesn’t permit him to go to London and testify in the suit. Still, Jackson plans to offer the testimony via video link from the United...
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 Jayden James Federline, Britney Spears’ youngest son, was rushed to Southwest Mississippi hospital on Sunday because he had suffered an allergic reaction. As a source told People magazine, the 2-year-old boy “had hives, was itchy and irritable.” Britney and her mother, Lynne Spears, spent the night in the hospital to take care of the...
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 American country singer Merle Haggard was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, his spokesman said on Sunday. On Monday he had to undergo a surgery in a hospital from Bakersfield, California, to remove one of his lungs. 71-year-old Haggard is recovering at home and he stated that he had started to feel “better and better each day.”...
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 Michael Crichton created Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World. He will still remain a legendary writer, whose books kept the best-selling place for many years. TV series like ER will never be forgotten by people worldwide. Crichton amazingly managed to make a connection to his master of narrating and the using of technology by...
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 Chi Cheng, 38, bassist for the California rock band Deftones, has suffered serious and critical injuries which have put him in a coma after he was part of a terrible car crash accident on Monday in Santa Clara, California. Frontman of the group, Chino Moreno, stated that Cheng is a “very serious state.” Either he refused to give more...
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The Los Angeles Ring Festival was announced on Monday morning during the Los Angeles arts community, as 50 arts organizations gathered round at the Grand Hall of Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to made the event official. The citywide festival will last for 10 weeks and will begin on April 15, finishing on June 30 2010. The centerpiece of the...
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 Mackenzie Philips, well-known from her roles in American Graffiti, has pleaded guilty in the Los Angeles court for possession of cocaine. The 48-year-old actress will have to go into rehab after she answered her felony drug possession count. Still, as a district attorney’s office said, the counts for heroin possession and a needle were...
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 Merl Saunders had long-term collaborations with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead band. He was a keyboardist born in San Mateo, California. Saunders became well-known in 1970 when he started his collaboration with Garcia and his bands, The Legion of Mary and Reconstruction. After that, he used to lead his own band called Merl Saunders...
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 Jurors for Britney Spears’ driving-without-a-license trial ended on Tuesday morning after three days of deliberations. On Monday the jurors couldn’t make up their minds whether the 26-year-old singer was guilty for what she had done or not. Still, the judge asked them to reconsider the case and find a solution. In the end, they couldn’t...
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 "I'm going to ask you to make another attempt to resolve whatever differences you have," Judge James Steele from Los Angeles County Superior Court told the jurors on Monday. Britney Spears’ driving-without-a-license trial still goes on as the jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. They began deliberating on Friday, they...
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 Four weeks ago, Travis Baker, former Blink-182 drummer was involved in a terrible private plane crash. The 32-year-old rocker was released from Sherman Oaks’ Grossman Burn Center where he was admitted on September 29. Since then, he had received treatment at the Los Angeles-area facility.Baker will continue his recovery at home, where he...
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 Britney Spears had her trial about her driver license on Thursday, but she didn’t show up. Instead, Jamie Spears, her father, did all the talking. This was her only defense that was present in court. He told the jurors that his daughter wants to return to Louisiana as soon as she gets back the custody of her children. Michael Flanagan,...
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Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the U.S. and widow of President Ronald Reagan, was hospitalized after she had fractured her pelvis and lower spine. Her spokeswoman said that she had suffered the fractures in a fall at her home last week. The 87-year-old former first lady was taken to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical...
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 Anne-Christine Massullo, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge, released on Monday a tentative ruling saying that Sharon Stone can’t obtain her son’s custody. Roan, 8, has been living with his father, the newspaper executive Phil Bronstein. A court order from 2007 gave Bronstein permanent custody of Roan. Massullo didn’t allow the...
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 Britney Spears drove around the town without a valid license and also hit a parked car. And that got her a trial on a misdemeanor charge for driving without it. Still, the singer’s attorney, J. Michael Flanagan, asked a judge to postpone the trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.Flanagan wanted an appellate judge to speak to the judge...
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 Heather Locklear, 47, was arrested in Montecito on Saturday night. The police suspected her of driving under drug influence. She was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at about 7 p.m. because a citizen had called 911 saying that a woman was driving like she was out of her minds. The actress, who is no longer in police custody, got...
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 On Sunday, at only six months after she gave birth to her twins Max and Emme, Jennifer Lopez finished the triathlon in Malibu, California, which consists of a charity swim-run-bike race. After the race, the new mommy went to New York to celebrate her husband’s, Marc Anthony, 40s birthday party.After the triathlon ended, Jennifer Lopez...
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 David Duchovny, 48, gained his fame through the “The X-Files Series,” in 1993. But he first appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. After that, he had a role in the “Twin Peaks” series, as a transvestite DEA agent. He also played in the Showtime “Red Shoe Diaries,” the long-running softcore series.Still, in 1993 he...
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 The 36-year-old actress was born in Hollywood, California. Robert Applegate, her father, was a record producer and record company producer executive, and Nancy Lee Priddy, her mother, was a singer. She also had to fight both breast and cervical cancer.Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the...
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 Mary-Kate Olsen, 22, refused to talk to investigators about the death of her friend, actor Heath Ledger, unless she is granted immunity. The young actress wants assurance before she speaks with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA wants to know from where Heath Ledger had taken those medicines that killed him.The masseuse who...
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 Christina Applegate will always remain in the audience’s memory as Kelly Bundy in the sitcom “Married with Children.” The actress made a great film and television career until her 36 years. Christina Applegate had major roles in several pictures, as “Farce of the Penguins,” “Anchorman,” “The sweetest thing” and is the lead character in...
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 Brad Pitt is threatening legal action
against anyone who will publish recent photographs that were taken by the
paparazzi of the actor and his family at their residence.
According to a letter published by the U.S.
Web site The Smoking Gun, Pitt’s lawyers said that the pictures were “surreptitiously”
taken by paparazzi who used a...
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 Golden Globe-winning actress Estelle Getty,
best known for her performance as Sophia Petrillo on “The Golden Girls,” died
Tuesday after a long battle with Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain
disease. She was 84.
The actress won Emmy and Golden Globe
Awards for her long-running role on the popular NBC sitcom “The Golden...
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 Andrew Firestone, former star of ABC-TV reality show “Bachelor”, married Ivana Bozilovic, Serbian model and actress. The two celebrated their wedding this Saturday, at St. Mark’s in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos. Andrew Firestone wanted to get married with Ivana Bozilovic on the central coast where his family has its vinery....
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 Police officers in Northern
California arrested Dr. Jan Adams on suspicion of drunken driving early
Thursday morning. He was the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s
mother. His license to practice medicine was suspended because of his DUI
troubles but also because of the problems related to the child support he owes
to his...
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Raffaello Follieri, the Italian businessman
who dated the “Devil Wears Prada” star was charged Tuesday with fraud and money
laundering. Prosecutors said that investors lost as much as $6 million. Raffaello
Follieri and Anne Hathaway broke up recently.
According to the complaint, Follieri, who
operates the charity The Follieri...
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 George Takei of “Star Trek” with his partner Brad Altman were among the first celebrities to obtain a marriage license on the first day of same-sex weddings in California last week. Same-sex couples who hoped for a long time to obtain the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity to see their dream come true as the city opened a...
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 It seems that Michael Jackson might relaunch his career as a Las Vegas act, Reuters reports.The investment firm Colony Capital, which recently bought the loan on the singer’s Neverland Ranch in California, in order to help him avoid foreclosure, is currently in talks with Jackson regarding various repayment options for the $23 million...
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 A week after the battle of words between Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee, it’s time for a new war of words: this time Tom Cruise fights celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky. It all started with Dr. Drew’s comments about the actor’s mental health. Pinsky speculated in Playboy magazine that Cruise’s Scientology beliefs could be the result of...
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 A video showing “Indiana Jones” star, Shia LaBeouf, using
anti-gay slurs during a slapping contest in order to make his friend slap him,
has come to surface via YouTube on Monday. The movie has been retracted and so
were the actor’s words, who apologized for hurling such a derogatory word.
LaBeouf’s representative told E!News...
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 Actress Jessica Alba, who married her longtime
boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to a baby girl,
according to US Weekly magazine. The same source reported the 27-year-old gave
birth at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, California,
over the weekend.
The magazine’s insider told that...
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 Comedian Dick Martin, best known for his
role as the co-host of “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” died May 24 of
breathing complications in Santa
Monica, California.
He was 86.
Martin, who had suffered respiratory
problems for years, died at around 6 p.m. local time while surrounded by
members of his family, spokesman Barry...
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 Now that the California Supreme Court has lifted its ban on
same-sex marriage, many gay couples will be able to spiritually bond with the
beloved ones. Among them, 71-year-old actor George Takei will get to marry the
man of his life, 54-year-old Brad Altman, with whom he has been sharing his life
for the past 21 years. E! Online...
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 WYSP-FM’s Kidd Chris, who was the morning show’s host, along
with a radio station’s program director, John Cook, were fired due to a racy
song which aired for the first time on March 21, during Chris’ show. CBS Corp. found
it extremely inappropriate for the host, whose real name is Chris Foley, to
allow such a song to be performed....
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 Michael Jackson has managed to avert a foreclosure sale for
his Neverland Ranch. The ranch was averted after a loan on the California property was
sold to Colony Capital, a large real estate investment firm, Reuters reports.
The loan, held by Fortress Investment Group, was about $23.5 million.
Michael Jackson said on Sunday that...
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 Spring is the season which brings out the love in most of
the people. This may be the reason of why so many celebrity couples have
decided to tie the knot these months. All of you may have found out by now
about Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, who exchanged vows in The Bahamas, also about
Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller’s wedding due...
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 Jackson William Leslie Jordan, the man who for the past two
years has been terrifying Uma Thurman’s family with letters, e-mails containing
threats of suicide, wanted to set something straight Friday when he took the
stand in a Manhattan
courtroom. The 37-year-old man said that he never intended to scare the actress
nor her family....
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 Rob Lowe has been accused of sexual harassment by a former nanny. Now, a second former nanny is accusing Lowe’s wife of sexual harassment, People reports.Sheryl Lowe has to face a counter suit in California. Laura Boyce claims that Sheryl Lowe made the working environment hostile, "extremely sexually offensive and hostile work...
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 Victoria Beckham celebrated her 34th birthday in
style with not one, but three parties, US Weekly magazine reports this week.
It appears that her world birthday tour began with an April
16 dinner with husband David Beckham, Kate Beckinsale and hubby Len Wiseman,
and Eva Longoria Parker at Parker's Hollywood
restaurant, Beso....
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 Former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff was taken to the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center
on Saturday to get patched up after a surgical wound above his eye reopened,
the Associated Press reports. His publicist, Judy Katz, denied rumors
Hasselhoff checked into rehab.
“He's fine, he had something...
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 Popular actress Kate Hudson celebrated her 29th
birthday in Miami,
accompanied by her rumored boyfriend Owen Wilson, People.com reports. It
appears that Hudson joined Wilson, 39, and his
parents for a lunch at Lario's on South
Beach Saturday afternoon.
A source at the restaurant told People “The four of them sat
away from...
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 British actress Hazel
Court, best known for starring horror movies such
as “The Raven,” died aged 82. Her daughter, Sally Walsh, said Court passed away
after a heart attack at her home near Lake
Tahoe, California,
BBC News reports.
Redheaded, green-eyed beauty Hazel Court had a long and varied
professional life,...
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 Unfortunately for the former pop princess, Britney Spears,
another issue will shadow her good behavior. The problem is now a car crash. The
fact is that it is hard for her to be left alone considering her past, but let’s
take it this way: it could happen to anyone! Saturday night Spears was involved
in a minor collusion while driving...
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 The Penns have had a change of heart and they stick
together.
Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are not divorcing anymore,
and however peculiar that might seem for a Hollywood
couple, it is true for them. The petition seeking their divorce filed in
December has been withdrawn and all we can guess now is that the couple is
happy...
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 There’s not much to say about actor Mike Myers. It is clear
for everyone that his talent in creating remarkable characters, such as Austin
Powers, Dr. Evil, Wayne Campbell and Shrek, is uncontestable. As a result, any
good remark from him is to be valued. In this case, Justin Timberlake is the
one appreciated by the funnyman. The...
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 Bill Powers, spokesman for Charlton Heston's family,
confirmed the actor's death. Leaving behind him a great acting career, Charles Heston,
84, died Saturday night at his home in Beverly
Hills, California.
For 6 years he had suffered of Alzheimer's disease. Despite his suffering, he
was a fighter and didn't want to give up....
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 Tom Cruise is far from being over the moon after hearing
that his name and image has been associated with a new strain of medical
marijuana. The actor is even preparing a lawsuit against the manufacturers, as
the New York Daily News reported.
The new strain of marijuana is marketed under the name of
“Tom Cruise Purple,” also...
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 Sunday, Emily Leatherman, a 33-year-old woman who has allegedly been stalking John Cusack for a pretty long period of time, was arrested
at the actor’s home in Malibu,
California. Even though a
restraining order barring her to come near Cusack existed, the woman showed up
outside his home this weekend.
Leatherman was caught...
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 Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Laguna Beach, California. TMZ reports that the artist was pulled over by the Laguna Beach police at about 11 p.m. because he was allegedly spotted “weaving” in a black Hummer.
According to The Associated...
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Legend Rod Laver will be honoured for his part in tennis history next month as the Australian Open brings together the great man and those he defeated on the 40th anniversary of his tennis Grand Slam.
It was 1969 when the man they called the Rockhampton Rocket won all four majors in the same calendar year, the last man to achieve...
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A famous country pile, an elegant town house, a smart pub in Mayfair and the value of luxury homes in London and New York are among the spoils of matrimony with which Britain's Guy Ritchie is walking away from his eight-year marriage to Madonna.
Ritchie, a publicity-shy film director of considerable means, insisted for weeks that he...
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Computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will cut 1,400 jobs in Germany over the next two years, a company spokesman said Monday in Boeblingen.
The announcement followed HP's purchase of IT-service provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS). About 1150 former EDS and another 250 HP employees were to lose their jobs over the next two years, the...
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Networking website Facebook plans to set up its international headquarters in the Irish capital Dublin, Deputy Prime Minister Mary Coughlan said in a statement Thursday.
The Dublin headquarters was expected to offer technical and sales support to users and customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the statement said, without...
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Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Tuesday presented the newly created Kavli prizes to seven scientists for their discoveries in astrophysics, neuroscience and nanoscience.
The prize categories are each worth 1 million dollars, and were jointly sponsored by the Kavli Foundation set up by US-based Norwegian Fred Kavli, and the Norwegian...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to amaze with his surprise meetings, Tuesday having a close encounter with California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known as “the Governator” as a parallel between his current function and The Terminator movie series.The two charismatic political figures held a joint press...
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The crisis in world financial markets has its roots in declining home values in the US real-estate market which began in late 2006 and led to a wave of foreclosures and defaults on home loans.
The loans, many to borrowers with poor credit, were bundled into assets that began to weigh heavily on banks' balance sheets around the...
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 The fire from California has reached its fourth day of spreading all around the area and destroying more than 800 homes. Firefighters are desperately trying to stop it while evacuating thousands of residents. Since Thursday, when the blaze began, 800 houses, most of them million-dollar mansions, were erased in the county of Montecito....
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 Officials from Santa Barbara County, California, announced that a wildfire which started on late Thursday destroyed a big part of the canyon and obliged the residents from Montecito to flee away. The flames burnt down nearly 70 multimillion dollars homes and ranch-style houses.Because of the strong winds the blaze started to spread...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...
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 Northern Los Angeles has been attacked by big flames on Tuesday. The gusty Santa Ana winds have sent the biggest wildfires from southern California. Many homes in the area were threatened by the big blazes. Special crews and helicopters tried to fight the fire which was spread on more than 20-sqaure miles above the San Fernando Valley...
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 Firefighters received the alarm call on Sunday night as a wildfire was spreading quickly over 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Officials announced that strong winds and dry weather was expected during the night. Ron Haralson, spokesman for Los Angeles County Fire Department, stated that "There's been no open flames for hours. It's...
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 The National Hurricane Center announced on Wednesday that Hurricane Norbert, the latest hurricane in this season in the Atlantic, approaches Baja in New Mexico, California. Its winds reach 115 miles per hour and the NHC has developed a five-day period during which Norbert was analyzed.Now, the hurricane is located in the Pacific Ocean at...
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 California Highway Patrol has released a statement saying that seven people were killed and 30 others were wounded last night after a bus which was carrying casino-bound gamblers had got off the road near Colusa County town of Williams and rolled over. CHP Dispatcher Terry Troth said that "the (bus) was northbound on Lonestar Road...
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A possible compromise in the takeover battle for ailing Wachovia bank was in the making, with the two takeover rivals, Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. considering a deal to divide up the the bank, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The newspaper said the two banks, with officials of the Federal Reserve and the US...
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 Investigators of the Fossett Plane remains have stated that they found them at the crash site, only a day after they had discovered the wreckage of the plane which was flown by the adventurer Steve Fossett. The millionaire had disappeared 13 months ago in the mountains of Sierra Nevada in east-central California. Madera County’s sheriff...
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The enigma of the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett moved closer to resolution Thursday as federal transportation officials were set to examine the wreckage of a light plane found near the site where objects apparently belonging to Fossett were discovered earlier in the week.
Searchers discovered the wreckage late Wednesday...
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 Erica Rix, 6, from Los Gatos, California, almost died in an accident involving her jump rope. The first-grader had her hand severed in the strange accident but after ten hours of surgery and nine days in intensive care, the surgeons managed to reattach her hand. The 6-year-old girl was in her mother’s SUV during the accident. She was...
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Authorities are looking for a serial killer from Los Angeles, California. They believe that the murderer killed at least 11 people in 23 years after DNA and ballistics tests have confirmed that the same killer committed all the 11 crimes in Los Angeles and Inglewood. Many of the people slew were prostitutes or drug users. The...
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 A small aircraft which was participating to an experimental flight on Friday crashed into a house of Los Angeles. The plane exploded after it took off and killed the pilot inside together with two people inside the house. The plane was home-built and its pilot tried to announce the officials from the North Las Vegas Airport that he might...
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Casey Anthony was supposed to be released from jail on Tuesday but recent announcements have stated that she will still be in prison as the prosecutors couldn’t collect enough information about Caylee’s disappearance. The little girl has been missing for about 2 months and she is only 3 years old.Tony Padilla, a bailbondsman, came all...
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Esther Elizabeth Reed, 30, pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday. The woman stole the identity of a missing woman from South California because she wanted to attend an Ivy League School as to escape her painful past. Reed pleaded guilty of theft charges in federal court in Greenville and she faces nearly 47 years in prison together with $1...
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Travis Air Force Base was covered with fully contained fire on Saturday. The blazes have been brought by the wind and they destroyed 80 vacant homes in the area. The fire started at 3:15 p.m. and it was an eight-alarm one. It spread very quickly to an area of the base that was full of houses. The fire began as a small grass fire and...
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