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Cnn.com |
6:01pm PDT |
Sex offender out for year ordered to jail |
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Summary: For an entire year, a former Florida teacher avoided serving a day of his 43-year sentence for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy. That changed today, when a judge ordered Aaron Mohanlal to be taken into custody immediately.
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Yahoo News |
5:51pm PDT |
Griffey ready to help White Sox win another title
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ken Griffey Jr. spent a good part of his childhood in Cincinnati, played there for nine more years. It's the place he raised his children, where he's made numerous friends, still has family. Cincinnati is home. |
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5:50pm PDT |
Field test |
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Summary: Squeeze on wildlife as EU farms ramp up production |
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BBC News |
5:33pm PDT |
UK police to help Antigua inquiry |
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Summary: A UK police team is being sent to Antigua to help investigate the shootings of newlyweds Catherine and Benjamin Mullany. |
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BBC News |
5:17pm PDT |
Olympic readiness being reviewed |
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Summary: The International Olympic Committee is meeting to tackle a series of tough issues, less than a week before the Games open. |
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BBC News |
5:17pm PDT |
IOC to review Olympic readiness |
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Summary: The International Olympic Committee is to meet to tackle a series of tough issues, less than a week before the Games open. |
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BBC News |
5:03pm PDT |
Thatcher state funeral undecided |
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Summary: Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman says stories of talks on a state funeral for the former PM are inaccurate. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
Obama shifts, says he may back offshore drilling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sou |
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Yahoo News |
4:37pm PDT |
Brazilian man confesses to killing British teen
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Brazilian man accused of killing and dismembering a British teenager has confessed to the murder in a deposition to police. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35pm PDT |
Starved, disabled girl was failed at every turn
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room — made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave — the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water. |
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BBC News |
4:22pm PDT |
Brazil launches rainforest fund |
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Summary: Brazil launches an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest but insists it will not accept foreign interference in its policy. |
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Yahoo News |
4:22pm PDT |
Lawyers for Shia LaBeouf say his hand was 'crushed' in wreck
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shia LaBeouf's hand was "crushed" in the wreck that flipped his truck last weekend, and he still runs the risk of infection and other complications after a four-hour surgery, his lawyer said Friday. |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
Lifebelts linked to CCTV cameras |
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Summary: Police should be alerted faster when someone falls in the river in Perth after lifebelts are linked to CCTV. |
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Cnn.com |
4:16pm PDT |
Sex offender out on bond for a year is ordered to jail |
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Summary: For an entire year, a former Florida teacher avoided serving a day of his 43-year sentence for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy. That changed today, when a judge ordered Aaron Mohanlal to be taken into custody immediately.
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BBC News |
4:14pm PDT |
Medical morals |
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Summary: How ethicists can help doctors decide on tricky cases |
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BBC News |
4:07pm PDT |
Protest planned for ailing mill |
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Summary: A protest march and rally is to take place through St Andrews over the closure of a paper mill. |
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Cnn.com |
4:03pm PDT |
Iraq contractor bans cell phones for 'safety' |
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Summary: A major Defense Department contractor has ordered its employees in Iraq to turn in their personal cell phones because "of a safety and security concern."
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
NHS 'confusion' over asylum rules |
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Summary: Confusion over the rules on NHS care for failed asylum seekers mean people are being turned away, campaigners say. |
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Cnn.com |
3:53pm PDT |
Behind the Scenes: 'Transfixed' by Dalai Lama |
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Summary: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour says she never knew much about Buddhism, and was not expecting much, spiritually, from covering the Dalai Lama. But as a journalist and observer she found herself mesmerized by the vital connection |
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Cnn.com |
3:53pm PDT |
Behind the Scenes: 'Transfixed' by Dalai Lama |
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Summary: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour says she never knew much about Buddhism, and was not expecting much, spiritually, from covering the Dalai Lama. But as a journalist and observer she found herself mesmerized by the vital connection |
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Cnn.com |
3:53pm PDT |
Amanpour 'transfixed' by Dalai Lama |
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Summary: I never knew much about Buddhism, and was not expecting much, spiritually, from covering the Dalai Lama. But what happened just goes to show how the unlikeliest events can affect you at the unlikeliest times.
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Yahoo News |
3:43pm PDT |
Obama shifts on offshore oil drilling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sou |
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Cnn.com |
3:24pm PDT |
Two sides of scientist emerge after suicide |
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Summary: Friends say a scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation fit many stereotypes, but biological terrorist was not one of them. People who knew Bruce Ivins recall a friendly, helpful man. But he also faced a court date after after a woman acc |
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Yahoo News |
3:17pm PDT |
U.S. Congress starts break with no gas price fix
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Congress began a five-week
recess on Friday, leaving unresolved how to ease the surge in
gasoline prices that is certain to be an issue until the
November elections and beyond. |
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Cnn.com |
3:17pm PDT |
U.S. bridges, roads 'structurally deficient' |
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Summary: With a fractured spine and all of her leg bones shattered, Mercedes Gorden knows she is one of the lucky ones -- she's a survivor of the Minnesota bridge collapse. One year after the tragedy, many Americans wonder if their bridges and highways are any saf |
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BBC News |
3:11pm PDT |
Luke leaves Big Brother show |
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Summary: Politics student Luke Marsden is the latest housemate to be evicted from Big Brother following Friday's vote. |
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BBC News |
2:59pm PDT |
Georgia accused of lethal attack |
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Summary: Separatists in the breakaway province of South Ossetia accuse Georgia of killing six people in a border attack. |
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Cnn.com |
2:57pm PDT |
Navy sub leaked radioactive water |
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Summary: Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on Friday.
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Yahoo News |
2:54pm PDT |
Verne Troyer sues ex-girlfriend seen in sex tape
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The battle over a sex tape featuring Verne Troyer has reignited after that actor sued his ex-girlfriend for $20 million, claiming she allowed snippets of the tape to be released. |
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Yahoo News |
2:51pm PDT |
Karstens, Pirates stop Cubs' 5-game winning streak
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jeff Karstens and the new-look Pittsburgh Pirates made a strong showing, beating Chicago 3-0 Friday and ending the Cubs' five-game winning streak. |
