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KFC Giving $30,000 To Scarred Girl While It Probes Claim She Was Asked To Leave Restaurant

Jun 18, 2014 – 12:12 PM
By The Associated Press - The Canadian Press JACKSON, Miss. - KFC Corp. says it's investigating allegations that a restaurant employee in Jackson, Mississippi, asked a 3-year-old to leave because her facial injuries disturbed other patrons. The company is also giving $30,000 toward Victoria...
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Police dog bids farewell to slain cop

Jun 3, 2013 – 1:37 PM
Fido rests his paw on the casket of Jason Ellis in Bardstown, Ky., May 30, 2013. (Jonathan Palmer) More than 1,000 people including hundreds of fellow police officers from surrounding states turned out at a funeral in rural Kentucky late last week to pay their respects to Jason Ellis, a 33-year-old...
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Fire kills 61 at poultry plant in northeast China

12:28 AM
BEIJING (AP) A large fire broke out at a poultry farm and processing plant in northeastern China early Monday, trapping workers inside large concrete buildings and killing at least 61 people, reports and officials said. The fire in Jilin province's Mishazi township appeared to have been sparked...
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Obsessed fan who shot player, inspired movie, dies

Mar 17, 2013 – 5:01 PM
CHICAGO (AP) She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she'd never met into a hotel room with a cryptic note and shot him, nearly killing him. After the headlines faded, Ruth Ann Steinhagen did something else just as surprising: She...
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New photos, details emerge of Newtown mass shooter Adam Lanza

Feb 19, 2013 – 9:30 AM
Accused Newtown shooter Adam Lanza was spending more time alone in the months leading up to the mass shooting as his mother, Nancy Lanza, attempted to encourage him to be independent despite his mental disabilities, a Hartford Courant / Frontline investigation has found . In a new documentary...
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Alabama school bus shooting suspect holed up in bunker: police

Jan 30, 2013 – 5:30 PM
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) - The gunman suspected of fatally shooting an Alabama school bus driver before holing up in an underground bunker with a young child is a Vietnam veteran with anti-government views, authorities and an organization that tracks hate groups said on Wednesday. Law...
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Alabama gunman kills bus driver, seizes boy

1:00 PM
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Police SWAT teams and hostage negotiators were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home with the kindergartener. The gunman, identified by...
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Surviving band member leads police to bodies

Jan 28, 2013 – 9:00 PM
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held and forced them and several crew members into waiting vehicles, a survivor of the attack told authorities. Nuevo...
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Arrests made in Brazil fire, funerals begin

9:30 AM
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people. Inspector Ranolfo Vieira Junior said at a Monday press conference that the arrests are for investigative purposes. He...
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Brazil blaze recalls pain for RI fire survivors

Jan 27, 2013 – 3:00 PM
Argentina, a year later. Thailand in 2008. Russia in 2009. For survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that was one of the deadliest in U.S. history, the fire in Brazil that killed hundreds Sunday is the latest in a series of reminders that no matter how far away, those who ignore the...
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Colo. theater reopens, months after mass shooting

Jan 18, 2013 – 4:01 AM
AURORA, Colo. (AP) One survivor had to pause on his way into the theater and pray. Another braced for flashbacks as he entered the auditorium where 12 people died and dozens were injured during a massacre six months earlier. Others refused to come, viewing the reopening of the multiplex as insensitive....
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In gun debate, video game industry defends itself

Jan 11, 2013 – 4:01 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) The video game industry, blamed by some for fostering a culture of violence, defended its practices Friday at a White House meeting exploring how to prevent horrific shootings like the recent Connecticut elementary school massacre. Vice President Joe Biden, wrapping up three days...
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Judge: Colorado shooting suspect to face trial

Jan 10, 2013 – 6:01 PM
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) A judge ruled late Thursday that there's enough evidence for James Holmes to face trial on charges that he killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a Colorado movie theater last summer. Judge William Sylvester said prosecutors have established probable cause to proceed...
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Student opens fire at California high school, wounding one

3:01 PM
A victim is taken from Taft Union High after a shooting at the school on Jan. 10, 2013. (AP) UPDATED, 12:37 p.m. PT: At least one student was shot when a classmate opened fire at a high school in California on Thursday. The shooting occurred in the science building at Taft Union High School...
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Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting

Jan 5, 2013 – 1:01 PM
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) Four gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., all canceled. A show in White Plains, N.Y., brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting is off because officials decided it didn't seem appropriate...
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India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal

Jan 4, 2013 – 3:01 PM
NEW DELHI (AP) The companion of a woman who was gang-raped aboard a bus in New Delhi recounted in a television interview for the first time Friday how the pair was attacked for 2 1/2 hours before being thrown on the side of the road, where passersby ignored them and police debated jurisdiction...
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Sandy Hook students, parents prepare for emotional return to school

Jan 2, 2013 – 8:15 AM
A sign welcoming Sandy Hook students is displayed across the street from Chalk Hill School. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo! MONROE, Conn. Sandy Hook Elementary School teachers, students and parents are preparing for an emotional return to school on Thursday at a repurposed facility here, less than...
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One of 9 deceased victims of Oregon bus crash identified so far

Jan 1, 2013 – 6:51 PM
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon authorities said on Tuesday they have managed to positively identify one of nine people killed Sunday morning after a charter bus skidded off an icy mountain highway and crashed down an embankment. Identification of the victims has been complicated because...
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9 killed in tour bus crash along Oregon highway

Dec 31, 2012 – 12:09 AM
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control around 10:30 a.m. on snow- and ice-covered...
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Suspects in India rape case charged with murder

Dec 30, 2012 – 1:44 AM
NEW DELHI (AP) Indian police have charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country. The murder charges were laid Saturday, hours after the woman died in a Singapore hospital, where she...
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