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Partial Remains Found of Possible Speed Freak Killers' Victims

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Nearly three decades after her disappearance, investigators may have solved the mystery of 16-year-old Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler. The San Joaquin County Sherriff's office conducted a search for human remains after information from death row inmate and infamous Speed Freak Killer, Wesley Shermantine, led authorities to the burial ground of the missing teen.

Whitney Houston, Superstar of Records, Films, Dies

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Whitney Houston, superstar of records, movies whose career was ravaged by drugs, dead at 48

Faces of protest are as varied as Russia itself

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The faces of the Russian protesters who braved brutal cold to express their discontent were as varied as the vast country itself: youthful and aged, unshaven and elegantly made up, self-confident and shy.

Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America

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Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.

Quincy woman's pretzels reach across region

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For 17 years, Linda DeMarco has baked her pretzels in an unassuming Jamaica Plain warehouse, just around the corner from the Boston Beer Co.'s Sam Adams brewery.


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Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel (AP)

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AP - Iran's supreme leader has urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamist militant group's resistance against Israel.

Pakistan PM: charges against president "politically motivated" (Reuters)

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Reuters - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, in an interview broadcast on Saturday, said corruption charges against Pakistan's president were "politically motivated" and that the ... more

France's far-right leader attempts image change (AP)

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AP - Marine Le Pen has purged the old guard from her father's extreme-right National Front party and is reaching out to Jews, maligned under ... more

Leonardo DiCappuccino, anyone?

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Leonardo DiCaprio likes his coffee smooth - a light roast, nectar-like, no bitterness. Just ask Todd Carmichael and Jean-Philippe Iberti, who spent more than a ... more

Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf (AP)

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AP - Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing sorely needed ... more

At Odds

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MIAMI - In this glamorous gateway city overlooking Biscayne Bay, a debate is being waged: whether to allow up to three lavish casino resorts in ... more

Malaysia deports Saudi blogger behind Prophet Mohammad tweets (Reuters)

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Reuters - Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in ... more

Japan's Fanuc to build machine tools factory: report (Reuters)

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Reuters - Japan industrial robot maker Fanuc Ltd (6954.T) plans to build a new factory near Tokyo to double its domestic output capacity of machine ... more

Cities Turn to a Crop for Cash: Medical Marijuana

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Sometimes lost in the discussion of medical marijuana is the extent to which it has become a small but growing source of new tax revenue ... more

Westwood Sinks Eagle to Lead Dubai Classic by One Shot

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Lee Westwood was one shot ahead at the turn on the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after sinking a 35-foot eagle ... more

Korda Wins Women's Australian Open

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US teen Jessica Korda wins Women's Australian Open with birdie in 6-player playoff

Jokinen, Iginla Lift Flames Over Canucks in SO

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Jarome Iginla scored the shootout winner and the Calgary Flames earned an important two points with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday ... more

Where abolition blazed

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BOSTON - Step into the sanctuary of the African Meeting House and you will walk on the same floorboards where Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, ... more

Voyages: My Debt to Ireland

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An Irish-American returns to his roots — again.

Voyages: How to See a Tree

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Yes, there’s more than concrete in the urban jungle of New York City.

Burglar breaks in, folds clothes, cooks dinner

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When a South Bend, Ind. mother returned home Monday night with her son, she discovered Keith Davis, 46, had neatly folded her clothes, swept the ... more

Dad shoots daughter's laptop over Facebook post

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A video purporting to be the work of an angry father teaching his daughter a lesson by shooting bullets through her laptop is the viral ... more

Russia's Putin gets a drink fit for dinosaurs (Reuters)

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Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received a drink fit for dinosaurs on Friday when he was presented with a sample of ancient water ... more

Filmmaker Douglas Trumbull receives honorary Oscar (AP)

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AP - The first Oscars of the year have been presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards, the motion picture academy's annual celebration of the ... more

Clooney, Pitt, Streep due at British film awards (AP)

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AP - Will the spies or the silent stars triumph?

U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama birth-control plan (Reuters)

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Reuters - U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they will fight President Barack Obama's controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite his compromise that religious employers would ... more

Insurers stuck with cost of Obama birth-control plan (Reuters)

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Reuters - President Barack Obama's compromise on free birth control coverage left health insurers stuck with the bill, sparking worries over the precedent set by ... more

Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy (AP)

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AP - What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.