MIAMI – When rap mogul Suge Knight (search) was wounded during a party, hundreds of people were in the nightclub. But when police interviewed the guests, most claimed to have seen nothing. A police report described the man who shot Knight in the leg Saturday at a party held in …
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Do I need an international fund if I already own a U.S. fund of big companies that operate in foreign markets? QUESTION: I’ve been told that I don’t need to invest in an international fund since I already hold the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX). The rationale is …
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A British aid worker and her parents were released from captivity late Friday, two days after gunmen seized the family in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said. Palestinian mediator Kamal Sharafi gave no further details, including where the family was released. A small …
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This is a regular series that profiles America’s most wanted criminals. Glen Stewart Godwin was living life in the fast lane back in 1980. The handsome, 23-year-old tool salesman was a regular at the discos in Palm Springs, Calif. He was dabbling in drugs and building quite a reputation as …
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GULFPORT, Miss. – Gulfport police have arrested the last of four inmates who escaped over the weekend from the Harrison County jail. Mark Kee Brown, 32, was captured Tuesday in Gulfport and returned to the Harrison County jail, said Sheriff Melvin Brisolara. The sheriff said Brown was found by police …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Criminals were seconds away from robbing a bank by remote control when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, Swedish investigators said Wednesday. The would-be robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his …
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LONDON – The engines failed to respond on the British Airways plane shortly before it crash landed at London’s Heathrow airport, a preliminary accident report said Friday. Two miles before touchdown, the engines did not respond for a demand to increase thrust, according to the report by Britain’s Air Accidents …
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WASHINGTON – Democrats controlling Congress are leaving grim decisions on automatic tax increases to the next president and the newly elected Congress under a freshly negotiated House-Senate blueprint for the upcoming budget year. The fiscal 2009 budget plan worked out in private talks between House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt …
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ATTU, Alaska – Authorities say a strong undersea earthquake has struck in the North Pacific Ocean near the Western end of the Aleutian Islands, but no tsunami is expected. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0 preliminary magnitude quake hit at Monday at 4:53 a.m. Alaskan, some 250 miles east-southeast …
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JERUSALEM – An American businessman told prosecutors Tuesday that he handed cash-stuffed envelopes to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and suspected that some of the money went to funding Olmert’s fondness for fine hotels and first-class flights. Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky’s testimony is part of an investigation into whether Olmert …
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