All Stories from August 21, 2012 (Change date)
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Japanese journalist killed covering Syria fightingAug 21, 2012 9:37 am - TOKYO — A veteran Japanese war correspondent was shot and killed while covering Syria’s civil war, her family and the government said Tuesday. Mika Yamamoto worked for T...
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Afghan militants hit U.S. military chief’s planeAug 21, 2012 9:37 am - KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan and damaged the parked plane of the visiting chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staf...
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Syrian forces kill 23 rebels in town near DamascusAug 21, 2012 9:37 am - BEIRUT — Government forces stormed a rebel-held town outside Damascus Tuesday after days of fierce fighting, killing at least 23 fighters according to an activist group ...
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Five children killed in SUV crash in East TexasAug 21, 2012 9:24 am - TYLER, Texas — Investigators say two boys and three girls died when the overloaded SUV they were traveling in crashed in East Texas. Department of Public Safety Trooper ...
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Suicide ruling doesn’t end questions in Ark. patrol car shootingAug 21, 2012 9:24 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hours after police released an autopsy report that ruled the shooting death of a young man in the back of a patrol car a suicide, dozens of the man’s su...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dead at 57Aug 21, 2012 9:24 am - ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s longtime ruler who held tight control over this East African country but was a major U.S. counterterrorism ally, died of...
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NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror casesAug 21, 2012 9:24 am - NEW YORK — In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloging mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demog...
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St. Charles E. leads area’s state hopefulsAug 21, 2012 9:13 am - One of the hotbeds of high school swimming faces plenty of uncertainty as the IHSA sectionals take place this year. St. Charles East returns swimmers who qualified for t...
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Congressman defies leaders to stay in raceAug 21, 2012 9:01 am - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Rep. Todd Akin defied the nation’s top Republicans Tuesday to forge ahead with his besieged Senate campaign, declaring that GOP leaders were overre...
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Wheaton murder victim's friend: 'It's still not real.'Aug 21, 2012 9:00 am - When Sarah Entzeroth and her best friend Megan Boken parted ways Saturday afternoon, they were laughing and looking forward to soon becoming roommates. Five minutes late...