LEEDS, Ala. – Several workers were injured and others needed help getting out of the rubble when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, company officials said. Ambulances took the injured workers to hospitals after the collapse at M&B Hangers shortly after 9 a.m. in Leeds, near Birmingham. …
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MUNHALL, Pa. – A former Munhall police officer is charged with trying to solicit sex from underage girls and offering them $1,000 to suck their toes. In February, 36-year-old Michael Curtin was fired from his job as a Munhall police officer. Police say Curtin’s association with underage girls began in …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The North Carolina Department of Insurance says a body found in a wooded area south of Charlotte is a missing investigator believed killed on the job. Authorities say 44-year-old Sallie Rohrbach was killed by the owner of an insurance agency she was sent to audit. Department spokeswoman …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf dismissed mounting speculation he is preparing to resign while political opponents and media on Friday clamored for his departure after eight years in power. A late-night meeting this week between Musharraf and his successor as army chief fueled rumors that the longtime U.S. …
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Dramatic photos show a Marine’s narrow escape from death Sunday while facing insurgent gunfire in Afghanistan. The Marine, part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), was exchanging gunfire with Taliban fighters near Garmser in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province when a Reuters photographer captured the soldier’s very close call. Click here …
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It has been a boon to directionally challenged drivers as well as the focus of legal actions raising privacy concerns. It is Google Maps’ Street View, a feature that captures on-the-spot images of streets and landmarks along your driving route, and some of those chance images are odd enough that …
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FORT BLISS, Texas – Defense Secretary Robert Gates, after watching a YouTube video showing poor barracks conditions at the Army’s Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said Thursday that what he saw was “appalling” and that all commanders must ensure that their troops have decent living quarters. “Soldiers should never have …
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AMSTETTEN, Austria – The sister-in-law of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a dingy dungeon and fathering seven children with her said he treated his family like a “tyrant.” In an exclusive television interview with The Associated Press, a woman who identified herself as …
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Hundreds of parents of autistic children are signing an online petition to get Florida teacher Wendy Portillo fired for her alleged tactics toward a 5-year-old boy that mirror the reality show “Survivor.” Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., alerted Melissa Barton this year that her son, Alex, suffers …
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