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Man found alive, but unconscious, a week after car accident
Thu May 17, 2012 12:23 PM EDT
A California man whose car overturned on the highway last week has been found alive, but unconscious, in a wooded area near an off-ramp, a week after his family last heard from him. Authorities found Michael Sanchez Jr., a 25-year-old San Jose resident, lying in thick …
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Estranged Kennedy wife died of asphyxiation due to hanging, autopsy reveals
Thu May 17, 2012 8:48 AM EDT
Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET: Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation due to hanging, a medical examiner said after performing an autopsy Thursday. The 52-year-old was found dead in her home in Westchester County, N.Y., on …
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Trio lured Marine wife to her death, prosecutors say
Wed May 16, 2012 12:15 PM EDT
Prosecutors say a trio of defendants lured a North County, Calif., Marine wife to go on a dinner cruise but had different plans for her in the hours before her death. New details were revealed in court Tuesday about what may have happened to Brittany Killgore, the …
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Stimulus dollars funded erectile dysfunction study in California
Wed May 16, 2012 8:41 AM EDT
This may not have been the type of "stimulus" feds intended. Two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million were distributed to the University of California San Francisco, NBCBayArea.com has discovered. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into the ere …
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Seven decades later, 94-year-old mom reunites with son
Tue May 15, 2012 12:52 PM EDT
The last time Emma Rymas, 94, had seen her only child was nearly seven decades ago. Living in Connecticut at the time, she and her husband had just gone through a bitter divorce. Rymas moved to California with the understanding that her then 6-year-old son, …
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Amid separation, husband challenges wife for New York Assembly seat
Tue May 15, 2012 11:54 AM EDT
Politics make strange bedfellows, especially in Long Island, N.Y., where an estranged husband and wife are running for the same seat. Michelle Schimel, D-Great Neck, is serving her third term in the New York State Assembly. Her opponent is Mark Schimel, the m …
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John Edwards and Rielle Hunter both could testify Wednesday, lawyers say
Tue May 15, 2012 8:27 AM EDT
Updated at 6:55 p.m. ET: John Edwards' defense lawyers said Tuesday they might call both Edwards and Rielle Hunter, his mistress and the mother of his youngest daughter, to the stand Wednesday in his campaign finance corruption trial.
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Three decades after double homicide, man allegedly walks into Iowa police station and confesses
Fri May 11, 2012 2:18 PM EDT
Three decades have passed since Robert and Goldie Huntbach were found tied up and shot to death in their Waterloo, Iowa, home, and no suspects were ever arrested in the elderly couple's murders -- until this week, when one of them voluntarily walked into police headqua …
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Woman fights for life after losing leg to flesh-eating bacteria
Thu May 10, 2012 7:06 PM EDT
Flesh-eating bacteria have cost a young woman her left leg and will result in more amputations, but she is defying the "slim to none" odds of survival that doctors gave her, more than a week after a gash to her calf sent her to the emergency room. Aimee Copeland o …
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Relative: Man suspected of kidnapping Tenn. girls thinks they are his
Thu May 10, 2012 11:16 AM EDT
A Mississippi man wanted for double murder thinks he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law told The Associated Press. Authorities believe the missing girls, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, are still with Adam Mayes, near …
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Santa Fe man agrees to euthanize pet dog after it mauls his father
Wed May 9, 2012 2:56 PM EDT
In the past week, Gavin Wright has lost two members of his household: Clifford, his father; then Achilles, the pit bull he had raised since puppyhood. Last Thursday, Achilles, a dark brown pit bull with a streak of white fur running down his chest, attacked and killed …
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FBI adds fugitive in Tennessee killing-kidnap case to 10 Most Wanted List
Wed May 9, 2012 11:07 AM EDT
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: The FBI on Wednesday added Adam Mayes to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List after he was charged in the killing of a Tennessee mother and her teen daughter and the kidnapping of her two younger children. First-degree murder charges were filed earlier Wed …
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Buffalo, N.Y., releases dramatic hit-and-run surveillance video
Tue May 8, 2012 2:29 PM EDT
Editor's note: The above video contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers. A driver who struck a pedestrian, sent him flipping through the air, and then drove off has been caught -- both by Buffalo, N.Y., police and on city surveillance cameras -- and …
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Border Patrol unveils first new strategy in 8 years, cracks down on Mexico's revolving door
Tue May 8, 2012 9:09 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low.
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Giant sinkhole threatens to swallow house, forces family (and its pets) to flee
Fri May 4, 2012 3:14 PM EDT
A Florida family got a rude awakening -- shortly followed by evacuation orders -- on Thursday morning when they discovered a gaping sinkhole just feet from their home.
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Girls pulled off train by their hair: NYPD seeks help in identifying assailants
Thu May 3, 2012 6:53 PM EDT
New York police are seeking the public's help finding a group of a dozen girls they say taunted two other girls during an early-morning train ride in March, pulling the two victims by the hair off of the train at a Bronx subway stop. No arrests have been made, but …
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Police: Boastful motorcyclist's 170 mph joy ride ends in arrest
Thu May 3, 2012 11:29 AM EDT
After being pulled over for speeding, a motorcyclist clocked traveling at speeds up to 170 miles per hour on the New York State Thruway reportedly was anything but remorseful. When told how fast he was going, he allegedly told troopers on Wednesday his bike could easil …
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Man's death on NYC train platform leads to $180,000 cash mystery
Thu May 3, 2012 8:41 AM EDT
The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep. Last August, a retired Teamster from Boston stepped off an Amtrak train in New York City and collapsed on the platform at Pennsylvania Station. As medics tried …
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Guinness World Record holder for 'longest time to live with a bullet in the head' dies at 103
Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:40 AM EDT
William Lawlis Pace was just 8 years old when a bullet became lodged in his head. His older brother, not realizing their father's .22 caliber rifle was loaded, accidentally shot him in the face at the family's Texas farm in 1917. But while Pace …
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NJ cop accused of setting up sexual encounter with girl, 12, while on duty
Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:50 PM EDT
A New Jersey police officer sent a 12-year-old girl explicit photos of himself in uniform and tried to set up a sexual encounter with her days after meeting the girl while assisting her family in an unrelated police matter, authorities say. The Woodland Park police officer, Stev …
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After kidnapping, heart patient, 5, returns home
Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:08 PM EDT
A 5-year-old boy with a heart condition who was kidnapped from St. Louis Children's Hospital this week headed home with his mother, NBCChicago.com reported Thursday. Porter Stone was seen being carried out of Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn, Ill., by mom Tiffany Stone. He was …
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Parents of missing Tucson 6-year-old speak out: 'Tell us what you want'
Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:02 PM EDT
The parents of a 6-year-old girl missing in Arizona spoke publicly for the first time since their daughter disappeared nearly a week ago, as hundreds of leads but no major breaks in the case came in.
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Gun used in Oikos University shooting found, Oakland police say
Fri Apr 6, 2012 12:04 PM EDT
A weapon suspected of being used in a mass shooting at Oikos University in Oakland on Monday has been found. Authorities believe One Goh killed seven people at the Christian college and a search has been underway for the alleged murder weapon since the shooting took place. Thurs …
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Trayvon Martin shooting: Website to raise funds for George Zimmerman defense
Fri Apr 6, 2012 11:28 AM EDT
A website to raise money for Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman will be hitting the Internet soon, as his family looks to fund his legal defense and cover their living expenses, his attorneys said. The website "http://zimmermandefense.com/" wasn't live Friday morning and no …
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Audio from 80-year-old who landed plane: 'I'm coming in too fast'
Thu Apr 5, 2012 1:34 PM EDT
An audio recording released by Wisconsin aviation officials reveals the cool-headedness of an 80-year-old woman who took the controls of the airplane her husband had been flying until he suddenly lost consciousness.
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