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(AP) Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that a Texas girl's ...
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(AP) A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.The carnival ride, called the Yo-Yo, collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, about 80 miles southeast of Sacramento.The ride has metal arms, each with ...
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(AP) Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted.Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash."I've stood on ...
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(AP) An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people, authorities said.A 2-year-old boy was pinned under the van, the Fire Department said. A 7-year-old girl and five female adults were hurt, but their ...
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(AP) Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime.Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user.Prosecutors ...
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(AP) A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with Joe Barron, 52, of Plano for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police ...
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(AP) An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of time because he is ill and aging.Willie Parker, who suffers from several health problems, only served about a ...
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(AP) A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive.Larissa Schuster was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with the special circumstance ...
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(AP) Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid "drop house" in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were threatened with sexual assault, authorities said Friday.Jose Teul, 23, Daniel Pena, 18, and Saul Mendez, 35, were charged with harboring illegal immigrants at ...
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(AP) An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people, authorities said.A 2-year-old boy was pinned under the van, the Fire Department said. A 7-year-old girl and five female adults were hurt, but their ...
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(AP) The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said Friday night that the ticket for the $196 million drawing was bought from Main Street Wine & Spirits in Amelia in southwest Ohio near Cincinnati.She says she doesn't know if other winning ...
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(AP) Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.The bodies of an elderly man, an elderly woman _ who were not related _ and a younger man with defensive wounds had been dead for several days in the Tenafly ...
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(AP) Tibet's holiest Buddhist temple reopened Friday, state-run media reported, two months after a violent uprising in Tibetan areas throughout China led the government to close off several of the region's most important monasteries.The Jokhang Temple in the heart of Lhasa had been under heavy security after peaceful protests by Buddhist ...
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(AP) Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state's ban.He prepared for defeat, knowing his stance on the issue often has been a lonely one since he opened San Francisco City Hall's doors in 2004 ...
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(AP) A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments.The three men aboard the space station monitored everything from inside. Russian and U.S. space officials said the docking went smoothly.The unmanned Progress cargo ship blasted off ...
