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Texas Rail Worker Phones for Help After Train Cuts Off His Legs

CLEBURNE, Texas – A rail yard worker who lost his legs when a train ran him over used a mobile phone to report that he was trapped and had been “cut in two.” Truman Duncan, 36, remained in critical condition Wednesday at a Fort Worth hospital after the Sunday accident …

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Summer Excavation Begins at La Brea Tar Pits

LOS ANGELES – Scientists went back to work Thursday at one of the world’s richest Ice Age fossil sites, digging the tooth of a five-foot dire wolf and the toe of a sabertooth tiger from the sticky prehistoric asphalt near Wilshire Boulvard. About 10,000 years before the arrival of mammoth …

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Peruvian Presidential Campaign Ends With Traded Insults

LIMA, Peru – Peru’s presidential campaign ended in a flurry of invectives, with former President Alan Garcia depicting his opponent as a would-be dictator with terrorist leanings and Ollanta Humala calling Garcia a corrupt vestige of a discredited political elite. In a closing rally in Lima, Garcia held thousands of …

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