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Financial scandal brings down governor

Financial scandal brings down governor

Dec 18, 2013 / 9:12 pm

The Tokyo governor who helped his city secure the 2020 Olympics resigned Thursday after revelations that he received 50 million yen ($480,200) from a hospital...

Reno hospital killer on a mission

Reno hospital killer on a mission

Dec 18, 2013 / 5:02 pm

Police think a suicidal gunman was on a mission of violence when he calmly entered a third-floor urology office and opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing...

Bronze bust of John F. Kennedy stolen

Dec 18, 2013 / 9:27 am

Someone has stolen a life-size bronze bust of John F. Kennedy that's been on display for decades at a downtown Tucson park, city officials said Tuesday....

Wife claims innocence in hit man charge

Wife claims innocence in hit man charge

Dec 18, 2013 / 9:27 am

A Puerto Rican woman wanted by U.S. federal authorities for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill her wealthy Canadian husband told a Spanish extradition hearing...

Christmas - more cultural than religious

Dec 18, 2013 / 9:25 am

For a significant number of Americans, Christmas has largely lost its religious meaning, becoming an occasion focused instead on visiting family and friends and...

Britain's 'Great Train Robber' dies at 84

Britain's 'Great Train Robber' dies at 84

Dec 18, 2013 / 7:11 am

Ronnie Biggs was a petty criminal who set out to transform his life with the daring heist of a mail train packed with money. The plan worked in ways he could...

Diplomat strip searched over work visa

Diplomat strip searched over work visa

Dec 18, 2013 / 7:07 am

An Indian diplomat said U.S. authorities subjected her to a strip search, cavity search and DNA swabbing following her arrest on visa charges in New York City,...

Numbers drawn for $636 jackpot

Numbers drawn for $636 jackpot

Dec 17, 2013 / 8:34 pm

The numbers for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot were drawn Tuesday night. Now, the country waits to see if there's a winner of the second largest...

DC buys 'Superman' art featuring JFK

Dec 17, 2013 / 8:34 pm

Comic book publisher DC Entertainment says it has acquired the art drawn by artist Al Plastino for a 1964 comic featuring President John F. Kennedy and Superman...

Man who stabbed horse trainer executed

Man who stabbed horse trainer executed

Dec 17, 2013 / 6:57 pm

Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a 48-year-old man convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of a horse trainer. Johnny Dale Black was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m....

Five hundred killed in South Sudan

Five hundred killed in South Sudan

Dec 17, 2013 / 6:54 pm

Fighting in South Sudan has killed up to 500 people, U.N. diplomats said Tuesday, and the United Nations fears the violence in the oil-rich East African country...

Big Sur wildfire 20 per cent contained

Big Sur wildfire 20 per cent contained

Dec 17, 2013 / 6:53 pm

A wildfire burning Tuesday in the Big Sur area of California that has destroyed more than a dozen homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate in the Big Sur...

Gunman opens fire at Reno hospital

Gunman opens fire at Reno hospital

Dec 17, 2013 / 6:52 pm

A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Reno, Nevada, hospital campus Tuesday, killing one person, wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search...

Unwanted final exams = bomb threats

Unwanted final exams = bomb threats

Dec 17, 2013 / 6:52 pm

Bomb threats that led to the evacuations of four Harvard University campus buildings this week were made by a student trying to get out of taking a final exam,...

NASA orders urgent spacewalk repairs

NASA orders urgent spacewalk repairs

Dec 17, 2013 / 2:52 pm

NASA has ordered up a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station. Station managers decided Tuesday to send two...

NORAD gets ready to track Santa

NORAD gets ready to track Santa

Dec 17, 2013 / 7:11 am

The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa's global whereabouts. But...

Aircraft crash in Afghanistan kills 6

Dec 17, 2013 / 7:09 am

NATO says six service members have died in an aircraft crash in southern Afghanistan, in an area where there was no fighting reported at the time. The alliance...

Car bomb strikes Hezbollah stronghold

Dec 16, 2013 / 9:27 pm

Lebanon's official news agency says a car bomb has exploded at a stronghold of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group in the country's east, causing a...

China says clash organized by terrorists

Dec 16, 2013 / 9:10 pm

China claimed Tuesday that a clash between police and locals in a restive far western region was an organized and premeditated attack by a small terrorist...

Pair charged in Oklahoma shooting

Pair charged in Oklahoma shooting

Dec 16, 2013 / 9:04 pm

Two men charged with first-degree murder and hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to life in...

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