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Huge increases in water and sewer bills are on the way in many places as cities and towns try to repair aging pipes and correct artificially low prices.
New York, Detroit, Tampa and Atlanta are among cities facing large rate increases. Many of the nati..
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A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house.
"He took out his shotgun and he said if they are bad guy..
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A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store, police said. He was the third person to die in recent weeks in Canada after being shocked by the handheld weapon...
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At last June's graduation at Franklin High School just outside of Milwaukee, three of the four students who tied for valedictorian were girls. Among the National Honor Society members, 76% were girls. And girls comprised 85% of the students on Franklin's..
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The government's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list's effectiveness.
The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through..
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Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle..
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The most effective current solution for baldness is hair-replacement surgery, in which follicles are painstakingly moved in small bunches from the thick hair on the back of the head to the barren acreage on top.
But what if it were possible to move an..
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Ted Paque usually exchanges friendly greetings with everyone he encounters on his way to work at Pitts Bus Service. On Monday, though, there were no cheery hellos as this grieving town of 1,961 tried to understand why an off-duty sheriff's deputy murdered..
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Tasers and similar stun guns, increasingly popular among law enforcement agencies nationwide, are generally safe for police to use, according to new research.
In what was called the first large independent study of injuries from Tasers, researchers rev..
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaeda in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
Meanwhile, three parked car bombs..
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The party of Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a statement Tuesday calling for no preconditions for dialogue with the military junta.
The junta's leaders have offered to meet with Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, but only on condition s..
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The U.S. military says it has captured at least six al-Qaeda media centers in Iraq and arrested 20 suspected propaganda leaders since June.
The seizures of the centers underscore the importance al-Qaeda has placed on media, primarily the Internet, as a..
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A videotape of the airport arrest of a woman related to a New York City official shows her shouting and gesturing vehemently at police who appear to be trying to calm her.
Carol Gotbaum, 45, died in custody shortly after her arrest Sept. 28 at Phoenix..
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Republican Sen. Pete Domenici's sudden decision to retire after 35 years will leave Congress without one of its strongest advocates of balanced budgets and Democrats with another chance to pad their majority.
Domenici, 75, announced Thursday that he ha..
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George W. Bush is a "windshield cowboy" who doesn't like horses. Fidel Castro has a strange habit of pulling on his ear after every bite of food. In Nigeria, the president will grab your buttocks in greeting.
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, who e..
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U.S. forces backed by attack aircraft killed at least 25 Shiite militia fighters north of Baghdad Friday in an operation targeting a cell accused of smuggling weapons from Iran, the military said.
The troops were seeking the commander of a rogue militi..
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The percentage of retailers selling tobacco to underage youth during unannounced inspections dropped to 10.9% last year, the government reports.
That is the lowest rates since states started conducting the stings a decade ago, according to figures bein..
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Congress wants to update a law that has protected Blackwater USA and other private security contractors in Iraq from criminal prosecution, but the White House has expressed doubts.
The House was expected to pass legislation on Thursday that would exten..
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When Carol Gotbaum landed in Phoenix — next-to-last stop on her quest for sobriety — she called her husband in New York, where they lived with their three young children.
"I want to do this for us," she told him, according to family attorney Michae..
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A landslide swept away a chunk of an upscale hilltop neighborhood Wednesday, opening up a 50-yard chasm in a four-lane road, damaging or destroying nine homes and forcing the evacuations of 111 houses.
No one was hurt in the collapse, which occurred th..
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