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Polo player links supplement to 21 horse deaths

Published April 22, 2009

The horses began collapsing Sunday as they were unloaded from trailers before one of the sport's top championships at the International Polo Club Palm Beach.

U libraries honored for excellence, innovation

Published April 22, 2009

The University is the first Big Ten recipient of the Association of College Research Libraries award.

Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist

Published April 21, 2009

Phillip Markoff, a second-year medical student at Boston University, appeared in court Tuesday on charges including murder, kidnapping and armed robbery.

Piracy charge with mandatory life penalty looms

Published April 21, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) âÄî The sole surviving pirate from an attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast will be tried as an adult after he was portrayed Tuesday as the brazen ringleader of a...

Prospectors hope new Calif. gold rush will pan out

Published April 21, 2009

COLOMA, Calif. (AP) âÄî There's still gold in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, and a new rush is under way to find it. Not since the Great Depression have so many hard-luck people been lured...

Pot advocates nationwide inhale, celebrate 4/20

Published April 21, 2009

OAKLAND, California (AP) âÄî Cannabis advocates weren't just using their high holiday of April 20 to light up âÄî they were throwing fundraisers for medical marijuana clubs and planning...

Family of 4 from NY dead in Md. murder-suicide

Published April 21, 2009

Autopsies were being done Tuesday. Police Cpl. Michael Hill said police did not yet have a motive for the killings and declined to say how the victims were killed, except to specify that they were not shot or stabbed.

Pirate comes to NY, world away from home in Africa

Published April 21, 2009

The decision by the federal government to bring the young man to justice here has thrust the skinny teenager into the international spotlight, and raised legal questions about whether the U.S. is going too far in trying to make an example of someone so

Attorneys: Whistleblower faked explosion warning

Published April 20, 2009

Attorneys for one of the nation's largest sugar producers accused a whistleblower Monday of faking a report that he says he sent to company executives warning them of the dust hazard at a Georgia refinery days before a blast there killed 14 workers.

Dozens ‘lie down’ at Capitol for Columbine event

Published April 20, 2009

Dozens of people participated in a "lie-down" at Colorado's state Capitol Monday to demand stricter gun control and mark the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings.