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Ex: Woman who died at Busch home had heart issue

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:40 PM PST

The ex-husband of a 27-year-old woman who died at the home of former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV says she had a rare heart condition.

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Unexploded homemade bombs found in Colorado store

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:20 PM PST

Police in the Denver suburb of Englewood say 10 unexploded homemade bombs were found in a cell phone store after they were thrown through the windows.

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Obama condemns deadly terror attack in Pakistan

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:40 PM PST

President Barack Obama is strongly condemning what he calls the "outrageous" terrorist attack in Pakistan that killed at least 45 people.

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AP Exclusive: Jackson Jr says 'everyone has erred'

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:20 PM PST

Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says he's a "public servant" not a "perfect servant." The Democrat tells The Associated Press that even as he's been dogged by links to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and questions about his relationship with a female "social acquaintance," he's never deviated from his mission of bringing jobs to his Chicago area district.

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Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:20 PM PST

Man, 5-year-old girl killed in Wyo. ski collision

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:10 PM PST

Authorities say two people have died and one is injured after a man on a snowboard collided with a woman and her daughter on skis at a Wyoming ski area.

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Surfing Santas hit waves on Florida's Space Coast

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:10 PM PST

Nineteen surfing Santas brought some cheer to beach-goers as they hit the waves on Florida's Space Coast.

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Flight makes emergency landing in Oakland, Calif.

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST

Maintenance crews will inspect a Southwest Airlines jet that made an emergency landing at Oakland International Airport when the pilot received warning of an engine fire.

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Newborn girl dropped off at LA fire station

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:00 AM PST

Los Angeles firefighters got an unusual Christmas delivery -- a baby. City fire spokesman Erik Scott tells City News Service that a woman walked into the fire station near downtown's Exposition Park on Christmas Eve and handed over her daughter. The woman told firefighters that she needed someone else to take care of the six-hour-old child and wanted her placed ...

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Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:40 AM PST

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ------

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Haitian orphans settling in with adoptive families

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:20 AM PST

Under a towering Christmas tree, 3-year-old Sevil Fletcher giggled in delight amid some not-so-rough roughhousing with his brother and sister.

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Calif. officials could put end to high-paid city

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST

Fewer than 100 residents live in this small burg in the shadow of Los Angeles, surrounded by miles of gritty, occasionally smelly warehouses, meatpacking plants and manufacturing businesses. It is one of the least populated, most nondescript municipalities in the country -- and one of the richest.

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Schwarzenegger leaves mixed legacy in California

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST

Arnold Schwarzenegger landed in the governor's office after announcing his upstart bid on late night TV and railing against government spending during raucous campaign rallies -- at one playing a spirited round of air guitar to the rock anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It."

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Facebook, PayPal tycoon embraces sci-fi future

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:04 AM PST

In the movie The Social Network, the character of Peter Thiel is played as a slick Master of the Universe, a tech industry king and kingmaker with the savvy to see that a $500,000 investment in Facebook could mint millions later.

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Iran opposition leaders barred from travel abroad

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:30 AM PST

Iran's opposition leaders are barred from leaving the country, a prominent conservative lawmaker said Saturday, hiking up the pressure on the reform movement.

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Oil exports from Iraq's Kurdish north to resume

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:10 AM PST

Iraq's newly appointed oil minister said on Saturday that oil exports from the country's northern self-ruled Kurdish region would soon resume as part of the country's national oil export policy.

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Somali pirates hijack cargo ship

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:50 AM PST

The European Union's anti-piracy force says a Thai-owned cargo ship has been hijacked in the Arabian Sea.

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Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:50 AM PST

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:40 AM PST

A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.

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Storm heads to Capital after South gets wintry mix

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:50 AM PST

With a rare white Christmas in parts of the Southeast and snow predicted for the nation's Capital, airlines canceled hundreds of flights and urged travelers to rethink their plans, while travel authorities warned of potentially dangerous roads.

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