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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An Italian journalist was mortally wounded by gunmen who may have tried to rob him outside a bank in Haiti's capital, Haitian media reported Sunday.
At the climate summit taking place here, nobody's a bigger celebrity than the delegation from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.
ELKO — Elko High School graduate Jayson Brown will share his high-flying experiences Sunday during the Navy League’s annual Pearl Harbor Night banquet.
The North Platte Telegraph Just one week into his retirement back home in Nebraska, former Sergeant First Class Jack Melcher Jr. donned his uniform to complete one more task for the Army he has served for the past 21 years. During ceremonies at the U.S. Army Reserve Training facility in North Platte on Saturday afternoon, Melcher received the Honorable Order of St. Christopher from his father ...
As we reported last week, Ben Stiller is out with a new charity campaign called Stillerstrong and is looking to drive awareness to it through social media. Part of the strategy naturally involves viral videos starring the actor, and today Stiller’s revisiting a past online success and asking the omnipresent Ryan Seacrest to retweet Stillerstrong to his 2.6 million followers. The result is ...
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LOS ANGELES and FRANKFURT, Germany -- PHIGroup, Inc. , a company engaged in the development and management of real estate properties, mining interests and consulting, merger and acquisition advisory services, announced today that the company will distribute a special dividend payment to eligible shareholders with a record date of December 31, 2009.
Women: Birthing justice, birthing hope. Part 3 of 12 Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world, more than at any time in history, including during the transatlantic slave trade.
Step off the plane in Haiti, and the acrid street-smell burns your lungs, and the street scenes — skinny kids running after you to beg for money, the sick lying prone on pallets by the road — burn your brain.
Giving back isn't a subject Campbell County Schools students are tested on, but a range of annual giving tree and other collection efforts help remind students of the lesson of sharing.
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The phrase "doomsday cult" entered our collective vocabulary after John Lofland published his 1966 study, "Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith."
FOXBORO - New England Revolution defender Jay Heaps announced his retirement from professional soccer on Wednesday.
The Obama administration is trying to get the "emergency" out of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Two executives of a Miami-Dade telecom company, two former officials with the Haitian government and the president of a Florida consulting firm were indicted for their alleged roles in a foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering scheme, U.S. officials say.
Driving down the interstate mid-afternoon, you just might spot the Hernandez family whizzing by. In the back of their car, daughter Diana likely will be changing from her school uniform into ballet clothes and combing her hair into a meticulous bun.
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