September 2010
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Grand Ole Opry Reopens.
The Grand Ole Opry is back in business after being closed by floods in May. Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Martina McBride were just a few of the stars who performed at last night’s Country Comes Home. The reopening comes just in time for Blake Shelton to join the ranks of 156 past and present Opry members when he is inducted next month. Among those are Bill Anderson, who closes every...
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Man, 63, convicted in 1991 Md. rape.
A 63-year-old man dubbed the “Silver Spring Rapist” was convicted Tuesday for a rape that occurred in 1991.
The trial came about after a DNA match to a suspect who was imprisoned for a different offense in New York after the rape, according to prosecutors.
Fletcher A. Worrell has been charged with nine rapes from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
Police originally filed these...
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Boston Police Press Hunt for Suspects in Rampage.
(Sept. 29) — Boston police are asking for the public’s help in identifying who’s responsible for a shooting rampage that left a toddler and three adults dead. A fourth adult is hospitalized but not expected to live, police say. “We will not rest until the facts are known and justice is done,” District Attorney Dan Conley said in a statement sent to AOL News....
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Officials: Lone Gunman in UT Shooting Was Student.
(Sept. 28) — The gunman who opened fire today at the University of Texas’ Austin campus before killing himself was a 19-year-old student, officials said. The suspect was identified as Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major from Austin, university spokesman Don Hale told AOL News in a phone interview. The suspect was wearing a ski mask and suit and carrying an AK-47 as he ran through the...
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Jimmy Carter Being Kept Overnight at Cleveland...
(Sept. 28) — Former President Jimmy Carter will be held overnight at a Cleveland hospital after feeling ill on a flight to the city for a book signing today — three days before his 86th birthday. MetroHealth Medical Center physicians said that Carter was admitted to the hospital for continued observation, according to a release from the hospital. “He is fully alert and...
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Florida Man Kills Wife, 4 Stepkids, Then Himself.
(Sept. 27) — A South Florida man killed his estranged wife and four of his stepchildren early today before taking his own life, police said. A fifth child was wounded, and two toddlers were unharmed. “This is a sad day for Riviera Beach,” Riviera Beach Police Chief Clarence Williams told The Palm Beach Post. “Many families have been tragically impacted by this unfortunate...
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Watch(Sept. 27) — John McCain has had some close calls in his political career so far, but his latest was probably a bit too close for comfort. The former maverick and current Arizona senator was physically confronted by a protester at the conclusion of a televised debate with the challengers to his seat in the upcoming midterm elections (Democrat Rodney Glassman, Green Party candidate Jerry...
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British Aid Worker, 3 Others Kidnapped in...
KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 26) — Four aid workers including a British woman were kidnapped in Afghanistan as election officials ordered recounts in seven provinces after last week’s parliamentary vote, raising further concerns of misconduct and fraud during the polls. Meanwhile, two NATO troops, whose nationalities were not announced, were killed in a bomb attack in the volatile south,...
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Iran Crosses Into Iraq to Hit Bombing Suspects.
TEHRAN, Iran (Sept. 26) — Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, state TV reported Sunday. Gen. Abdolrasoul Mahmoudabadi of the elite Revolutionary Guards said the “terrorists” were killed on Saturday in a clash “beyond the border” and that his forces were...
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Coach Moons Crowd after NYC H.S. Game Ends in...
A wild brawl erupted at a high school football game in Queens on Saturday, when an assistant coach of the Boys and Girls High School team dropped his pants and ‘mooned’ the opposing team’s sideline, the New York Daily News reports. The impetus starting the melee was a controversial call in the final minutes of the division championship battle in Cambria Heights between Campus...
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Ray Charles Memorial Library Opens In L.A.
LOS ANGELES — On what would have been his 80th birthday, Ray Charles has joined the likes of past presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with his own namesake library in Southern California.
The Ray Charles Memorial Library officially opened its doors Thursday night. Housed in the studio and office building Charles built in South Los Angeles in the early 1960s, the library features...
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Accused megachurch pastor to talk to congregation.
ATLANTA -Sunday’s services at a Georgia megachurch will give its famed pastor the chance to address the congregation for the first time since allegations surfaced that that he lured young men into sex with gifts and travel.Bishop Eddie Long is scheduled to speak at services at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, several days after the lawsuits were filed accusing him...
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Man Arrested in 1996 Murder of Texas Teen.
(Sept. 25) — A Louisiana man has been charged with the murder of a Texas teenager, 14 years after her body was found. Kevin Smith, a 45-year-old welder, was arrested at his workplace on Wednesday. Police say DNA records led them to him. Prosecutors say that Smith killed Krystal Jean Baker, 13, then left her body under a bridge. The arrest “is a miracle from God and all the...
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WatchPresident Obama blasted the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” on Saturday, calling it the same old “worn out philosophy” of tax breaks for billionaires, cutting slack for Wall Street and other special interests, and letting the middle class “fend for itself.” Obama in his weekly address — which of late has amounted to a weekly attack on ...
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5 Shot at Party Near Seton Hall in NJ, 1 Dead.
EAST ORANGE, N.J. (Sept. 25) — A man who was denied access to a private party at an apartment near Seton Hall University left and returned with a handgun, fatally shooting a university student and wounding four other people. Seton Hall student Jessica Moore, 19, died from her injuries at 3:20 p.m. Saturday, said Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office....
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Watch(Sept. 25) — A Florida woman has been arrested on child abuse charges after being caught on video apparently egging on her daughter in a fight with another teenage girl. Dozens of other students gathered around the girls as they brawled in an open field Sept. 17 in the town of Palmetto, south of Tampa. Several of them recorded cell phone videos of the fight, which made their way to TV...
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Palace Intrigue: Queen Ripped for Heating Request.
LONDON (Sept. 24) — An elderly British woman who wanted help heating her home has been criticized after she asked for a handout from a government anti-poverty fund. What’s wrong with that, you might ask? Well, the woman in question was Queen Elizabeth II, and the humble abode she wanted warming was her swank London residence, the 775-room Buckingham Palace. The Independent newspaper...
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Obama Slams Ahmadinejad but Pushes Talks With...
(Sept. 24) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be the United States’ best bet for isolating and forcing change from Iran. President Barack Obama, in an interview today with the BBC service directed at Iran, lambasted Ahmadinejad for once again suggesting the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, even as the White House and its allies work to revive talks...
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Seattle Shooting Victim: 'My Mom Has Gone Crazy'.
(Sept. 24) — Relatives say the matriarch of a Cambodian immigrant family in Seattle had a history of mental problems, but they still don’t know what set her on a shooting rampage that left the woman and three of her family members dead. “Grandma just shot them for no reason,” 17-year-old relative Tony Sun told The Seattle Times. Chhouy Harm then turned the gun on herself, police said. Sun and...
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At U.N., Obama puts human rights, democracy at...
UNITED NATIONS - President Obama outlined a leading role for the United States in promoting human rights and democracy around the world Thursday, laying out a new foreign policy initiative that his advisers said will guide his diplomacy in the years ahead.
In his second annual address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama spoke more directly than he has previously about the importance of human...
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Amid Tension, Japan Is Releasing Chinese Captain.
TOKYO — Japanese authorities said on Friday that they will release the captain of a Chinese trawler whose arrest two weeks ago near islands claimed by China and Japan had caused growing tensions between the two Asian powers. Japanese prosecutors said they decided not to press charges against the captain, identified as Zhan Qixiong, 41, who was detained on Sept. 8 after his boat collided with...
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