An evacuation order has been lifted for thousands of central Texas residents after a chemical plant fire was brought under control.
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The recent searches of Michael Jackson’s personal physician’s home and offices indicate that investigators have gathered significant evidence against him and that manslaughter charges may soon be filed, experts say.
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Prosecutors say they plan to call a witness to testify that he or she was attacked and stabbed on a jogging trail by a man who looked like the suspect in the Chandra Levy slaying.
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A Boston police officer who sent a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a “banana-eating jungle monkey” has apologized, saying he’s not a racist.
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A man indicted by a grand jury in the cruise ship death of his wife pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and waived his right to seek bail.
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Arizona authorities stopped a refrigerated truck hauling fruit and found almost 100 illegal immigrants some as young as 9 crammed inside the trailer in near-freezing temperatures, officials said Thursday.
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Republicans and some conservative Democrats on Thursday got their desired slowdown in congressional action on President Obama’s top domestic priority — health care reform. A key Senate committee won’t vote on its compromise health care overhaul plan before the upcoming month-long August recess, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed off on a key component of a deal with conservative Blue Dogs, triggering a backlash by liberal Democrats.
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North Korea’s seizure of a South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members raised fears that the communist nation could use the incident to exert pressure on Seoul amid badly strained ties between the rival countries.
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Rohullah Farooqi Lodin of Irvine, Calif., and Hashmatullah Farooqi of New York City each are charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud and commit an offense against the United States and one count of attempting to bribe a public official.
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