May 19, 2013
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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Five cars were set on fire early Saturday morning in the Columbus Historic District, according to residents and the Columbus Fire and Emergency Medical Services.
Most of the cars were in the 500 block of Front Avenue and at least one was in the 500...
May 19, 2013
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The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand / Asia News Network
BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN) -- Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured.
The bombing took place at around 11am at Asia Hotel, in Sungai Kolok district of the...
May 19, 2013
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St. Cloud Times, Minn.
For more than 105 years, the paper mill anchored on the east bank of the Mississippi River helped sustain a community.
It provided jobs for generations of Central Minnesotans and a consistent and important stream of tax dollars for a city that grew with...
May 18, 2013
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El Paso Times, Texas
Three Fort Bliss soldiers were killed Tuesday in a bombing attack in Afghanistan, Fort Bliss officials said on Friday.
The soldiers were killed when an homemade bomb detonated in the town of Senjaray, Fort Bliss officials said in a news release.
Two...
May 18, 2013
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Reuters
BENGHAZI, May 18 (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military
posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a
rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday.
Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar
Gaddafi's 42-year...
May 18, 2013
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The Courier-Tribune, Asheboro, N.C.
A local teen's quick and instinctive actions to save family members and friends from a burning boat has earned him a top lifesaving Boy Scout medal for his heroic actions.
Aaron Michael Avelino, 17, of Ramseur will be awarded the Boy Scouts of America's...
May 18, 2013
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Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems.
So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford.
They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note.
Those...
May 18, 2013
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The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball.
It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph.
And...
May 15, 2013
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An ex-convict with "Cop Killa" tattooed below his left eye has been charged with making 911 calls threatening to shoot and kill police officers in the Ogden District on the West Side, authorities said.
Antonio A. Hammond, 27, is also accused of calling...
May 16, 2013
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The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
May 17, 2013
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Reuters
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.
Several...
May 17, 2013
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BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling.
The explosions brought the week’s...
