KATMANDU, Nepal – An American climber has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve the feat, mountaineering officials said Wednesday. David Hahn, of Taos, New Mexico, reached the 29,035-foot summit Tuesday along with fellow American climber Nicole Messner and two Sherpa guides, Tourism Ministry …
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LOS ANGELES – A South Los Angeles gang member who wrote a critically praised autobiography behind bars has been sentenced to six years in state prison for a 2006 carjacking. Kody “Monster” Scott, 44, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest to carjacking. Four other counts against him were dismissed …
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Leanne Nicholson is just like any other 18-year-old: She is planning for her future and enjoys taking care of her pony and dog. But, Nicholson, of Choppington, in Northumberland, England, is recovering from her second heart transplant in just six years, reports London’s Daily Mail. “To receive a second heart …
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A growing number of women with early stage breast cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole breast removed instead of just the cancerous lump, doctors are reporting. Mastectomies were standard treatment until 1990, when studies showed that women whose cancers were small and confined to the breast did …
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WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of the May 4, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: We continue our discussion of the Democratic race now with two former party chairs on opposite sides of the fight. Terry McAuliffe, who’s chairman of the …
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INDIANAPOLIS – A bank teller who lost the twins she was pregnant with after a gunman shot her in a robbery says the man wouldn’t let her co-workers call for help as she lay bleeding. Thirty-year-old Katherin Shuffield, who had been five months pregnant with twin girls, told reporters Saturday …
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RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond was placed on lockdown Tuesday afternoon while police conducted a building-to-building search for a man who was reportedly seen carrying a gun. University spokeswoman Linda Evans said no shots were fired. Evans said witnesses reported seeing a man with a handgun in Boatwright …
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COLUMBIA, S.C – South Carolina’s lieutenant governor announced Thursday that he is willing to put up $4,000 of his own money so his state can become the first in the nation to issue “I Believe” license plates with the image of a cross and a stained glass window. The legislation …
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TEL AVIV, Israel – The United States took Israel to task Saturday for a planned expansion of Jewish homes in the portion of Jerusalem that Palestinians claim for the capital of a future state. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that such moves undermine the U.S.-backed peace talks. Rice, while …
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LONDON – Singer Amy Winehouse fainted Monday at her north London home and was hospitalized, her spokesman said. Winehouse lost consciousness but an assistant caught her before she hit the ground, spokesman Chris Goodman said. “She quickly recovered and her father, Mitch, took her to hospital as a precaution,” Goodman …
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