"Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughan knew how it ended, but he said there still was plenty of drama in watching the Mississippi school bus security tape. At 6:53 a.m. Tuesday, a 14-year-old girl boarded the bus and walked better than halfway toward the back. She reached into a flower-print bag and pulled out a chrome-plated .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun and began shouting and threatening the other students"
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"Navy announced Friday that it will delay releasing an environmental study of an outlying landing field to serve Oceana Naval Air Station. The field has sparked controversy among residents around the five rural sites under consideration in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. They fear that jet noise will disrupt their lives without bringing any economic benefits"
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"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — Three transients hopped aboard a locomotive on a train hauling hazardous materials and triggered the brakes, bringing it to a halt in a western Colorado canyon, authorities said"
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"Mexican army said Monday that soldiers captured Luis Ricardo Magana, who prosecutors describe as a leading member of the violent La Familia drug cartel"
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"The last day of the Cash for Clunkers auto trade-in program generated so much business the online system for reimbursement crashed, U.S. officials said. Department of Transportation officials said late in the day the deadline for filing applications would be extended until noon EDT Tuesday, although the deadline for dealers to sell cars under the program was unchanged from 8 p.m. Monday, The Washington Post reported."
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"James Bamford is an author and intelligence expert who has written extensively about the CIA. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric talked with him Monday night about the day's developments related to CIA interrogation techniques and whether these the practices revealed to day were in direct violation of the Geneva Convention"
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"US Attorney General Eric Holder has named federal prosecutor John Durham to conduct a preliminary review into a host of alleged CIA prisoner-abuse cases following a recommendation from the Justice Department's ethics office to reopen the inquiries"
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ObamaCare is failing, so it's time to get the media focused on something else.
- Spencer
"United States has released Mohammed Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, and has allowed him to return to his native Kabul, his lawyer said. Jawad was accused in connection with a 2002 grenade attack"
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"Squint. The Seekonk River might seem like the Mississippi. And the two men on its bank might pass for Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Dan Gladstone, 19, and Zachary Weindel, 26, have built a raft, and a dream — they hope to have a self-sufficient boat, a community and a way of life."
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"In a first, the Pentagon is handing the International Committee of the Red Cross the names of militants held secretly at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Saturday"
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"A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday"
- chaz2b
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Obviously the witch is allergic to water...
- Peter Ghosh
is she still pissed that dorothy killed her sister with that house?
- Jason Cox
Seriously, guys, the argument is that she slipped and fell because of the water.
- Karl Knechtel
She slipped and feel due to the fact she was not careful and aware , how stupid do you have to be to not expect water on the ground around a big tank of water.
- Lisa zahara Hopkins
"The U.S. Marines from Echo Company are in Afghanistan with a mission to hunt down the Taliban in dangerous Helmand Province so that voters could get to the polls yesterday. They weren't always successful and voter turnout was very low"
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"The damage they do to society is well-known, but drug traffickers, it turns out, also aren't the most environmentally-minded campers. Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara's Los Padres National park, burning more than 136 square miles, was sparked by a cooking fire started by the hirelings of a Mexican drug cartel which was growing thousands of marijuana plants in the remote canyons."
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"American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said Friday"
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"A 19-year-old man was ordered to serve 13 years in prison this week after being convicted of robbery and related gun and conspiracy charges. Circuit Judge Frederick Lowe formally sentenced Kevin M. McInnis of Virginia Beach to 33 years in prison, but he suspended 20 years, according to a statement from the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office. Police said they arrested and charged McInnis and a 16-year-old male with the Nov. 27 robbery of a cell phone and marijuana from another male on 14th Street. The juvenile pleaded guilty in January and was ordered to serve three years in juvenile detention"
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"Michael Andrews, who is 5 feet 10 inches, was last seen at approximately 9:20 p.m. at his residence at 160 Lamar St. He was last seen wearing his pajamas, a black tank top, black gym shorts, black Crocs, and white socks, according to a Macon police news release. Andrews weighs 160 pounds, has braces, short blonde/brown hair, and has a visible scar on his upper lip, according to the release. Andrews is reported to have bi-polar disorder and ADHD, but has not been medicated. He could be a danger to himself, according to the news release. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the Macon police at 751-7500"
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"Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a pair of handgun bans. "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed," Turner wrote on his blog on June 2, according to the FBI. "Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions.""
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"delegation of U.S. senators led by John McCain met with Libya's leader Friday to discuss the possible delivery of non-lethal defense equipment"
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