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U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The leader of the world's Roman Catholics has been to the White House only once in history. That changes this week, and President Bush is pulling out all the stops: driving out to a suburban military base to meet Pope Benedict XVI's plane, bringing a gian.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 2:03pm neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Seven South Carolina college students died in a weekend beach house fire in North Carolina, officials say. Authorities have not released the the victims' names, but The Associated Press has confirmed several identities through relatives and close friends:.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 4:14pm neoform

FOX News -- A 75-year-old man recently reported missing was rescued from an Orange County house early Wednesday where he claims he was held prisoner for 14 days without food after following a prostitute to the home for sex, WOFL Investigators said Lloyd Miles Brya.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- The House on Tuesday prodded parks officials to reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public — a step the government says is too dangerous. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., for the second year in a row added an amendment to a spending bill giv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

CNN -- Fire raced through a three-story row house early Tuesday, killing five children, and authorities said they were looking for a teenage baby sitter who was supposed to be watching them. Neighbor Sontaya Perry, 22, said she could hear the children inside.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 10, 2007 @ 10:02am neoform

BBC News -- Six people have been found dead and a child badly injured after a shooting incident at a house in south Wisconsin. Police in the town of Delavan found the victims after responding to a call at 10.36pm on Saturday. A child who had been shot in the ch.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

FOX News -- An attorney for one of three people accused in the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl said they were harboring her from abuse and allowed her to freely come and go from the house where police found her. Police and the girl's parents said that wasn't the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:37am neoform

FOX News -- An explosion that sent a plume of fire and debris 75 feet high flattened a suburban Milwaukee home Saturday, killing an elderly woman in the house and injuring three neighbors, authorities said. Neighbors had reported smelling a strong odor just before.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 12, 2007 @ 12:01am neoform

FOX News -- For nearly four years, a South Carolina man held his wife and two sons captive in a house infested with maggots and human waste, authorities said. The boys slept on a bare mattress as their mother was kept in a drug-induced stupor in a house that was d.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Reuters -- Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford. Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 5, 2007 @ 4:16pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An online ad offering everything in the house for free left one landlord with quite a shock. By the time she realized what was going on, the house had been stripped of its light fixtures, hot water heater — even the kitchen sink. Laurie Raye said she.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 12:18pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Justice Department's inspector general told a committee of angry House members yesterday that the FBI may have violated the law or government policies as many as 3,000 times since 2003 as agents secretly collected the telephone, bank and credit card r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:04pm neoform

CNN -- Thousands of Christians prayed for peace at an anti-war service Friday night at the Washington National Cathedral, kicking off a weekend of protests around the country to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Afterward, participants marched w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

Washington Post -- A White House privacy board is giving its stamp of approval to two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs _ electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking _ and says they do not violate citizens' civil liberties. Democrats ne.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 9:32am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 6:32pm neoform

Stuff.co.nz -- Ashwin Ellis, 18 and unemployed, was arrested after the September 19 home invasion in which the elderly woman was left bound and gagged in her Pine Hill house... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 1, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County's coastline and off the southern tip of Mend.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- Two men died in a house fire in East Oakland early today, authorities said. The victims were found in the back of a home at 2640 74th Ave. Their names weren't immediately released. Five occupants managed to escape from the blaze, which was reported.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Investigators sifting through the charred debris of a house fire in Napa where four people died Monday determined that a Christmas tree was in the living room where the blaze started. Aurora Castanon, 58, and her grandsons Matthew Castanon, 11, and Gio.. Read More