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4 people found dead in hotel north of Baltimore

Published April 20, 2009
Investigators began the task Monday evening of identifying four bodies found inside a hotel guest room earlier in the day in suburban Baltimore, as well as figuring out how the people died.

Sea hostage’s hometown rolls out the welcome mat

Published April 17, 2009
Richard Phillips, who was freed from his ordeal with Somali pirates on Easter Sunday, was expected to arrive on a chartered jet before being whisked to his home, where the white picket fence in front was festooned with homemade signs, ribbons and bows.

Owner: Nephew left Fla. home just before plane hit

Published April 17, 2009
A South Florida man whose home was sliced in two by a small plane says his nephew left the home only shortly before the crash.

Citigroup, GE earnings lift hopes for economy

Published April 17, 2009
Facing conflicting evidence, analysts are wrestling with whether the economy is making a fitful climb back up — or whether the crisis will get worse before it gets better.

Driving teacher allegedly drunk during lesson

Published April 16, 2009

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) âÄî A driving instructor who police say was drunk while giving someone a driving lesson can stay out of jail but will lose his license for a year. Daniel Winsky, 53, of...

Talk of delaying WTC towers for decades

Published April 16, 2009
Developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have been talking on and off for months about rewriting a 3-year-old agreement that gives the developer rights to build three out of five towers planned at the Sept. 11, 2001, t

Clay, sandbags added to dam protecting ND town

Published April 16, 2009
A convoy of trucks, excavators, bulldozers and backhoes moved in to fortify a seeping dam Thursday in eastern North Dakota as engineers and National Guard troops worked to save a tiny town that would flood if the dam fails.

Health advocates tout new model of female condom

Published April 16, 2009
Advocates hope the dynamics will change following last month's approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the FC2, a new version of the female condom produced by the Chicago-based Female Health Co.

Ex-prosecutor picked for new US ‘border czar’

Published April 15, 2009

EL PASO, Texas (AP) âÄî The job title âÄî "border czar" âÄî is familiar to Alan Bersin, who more than a decade ago led an effort to fight drug and human smuggling that had mixed...

Former Ill. governor wants to join reality TV show

Published April 15, 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) âÄî Just when you thought the saga of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich couldn't get any stranger, it has. Blagojevich wants to star on the NBC reality show "I'm a Celebrity...

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