PLAINFIELD, Ill. – Plainfield police contend their efforts to find a missing woman would be hurt if they are forced to return guns and vehicles seized from her husband. A hearing is scheduled for April 2 on a motion by Craig Stebic seeking the return of his car and truck, …
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WILMER, Texas – A registered sex offender running for mayor of his small town said late Friday that he hopes voters can overlook his 2004 arrest in which he was caught in a police sting trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old girl on the Internet. Brian Sliter, who is …
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POSO, Indonesia – Masked, black-clad and brandishing machetes, the attackers sprang from behind a screen of tall grass and pounced on the four Christian girls as they walked to school. Within seconds, three of the teenagers were beheaded — fresh victims of violence that has turned this Indonesian island into …
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Women who are obese before pregnancy are more likely to later have overweight kids, according to a new study. And that’s not all. The study also links overweight kids to mothers who smoke and/or are black and Hispanic. But, that doesn’t doom anyone to being overweight. Nor does it completely …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A former HealthSouth Corp. finance executive was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Wednesday for his part in the multibillion-dollar accounting fraud that rocked the company. Jason Brown, 36, a former vice president of finance for the Birmingham-based, health-care company, was ordered to …
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CHICAGO – General Mills Inc. (GIS) Thursday reported a slight increase in quarterly profit that beat analysts expectations, as higher prices and strength in Yoplait yogurt and Progresso soup offset lower cereal sales and increased costs. The second-biggest maker of breakfast cereal also said that increased promotional spending in stores …
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. “The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years,” said …
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The longer it takes for a woman to get pregnant, the more likely she’ll give birth to a boy, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings may help explain why more boys than girls are born worldwide, despite the fact that human semen contains equal amounts of X …
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WASHINGTON – Terrorism, torture and modest tax cuts to help rebuild the Gulf Coast dot the agenda for the Republican-controlled Congress at the end of a year scarred by scandal. GOP leaders are working to salvage as much as possible from a conservative blueprint drafted in more favorable political times. …
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico and the United States broke up a counterfeiting ring that printed an estimated $5 million in fake $100 bills in Mexico and sold them across the border, officials said Wednesday. The ring, based in the western state of Jalisco, operated more than four years, selling fake …
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