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Searchers find body, some wreckage from missing medical helicopter
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Searchers have found a body and wreckage from a medical helicopter missing since Monday, a spokesman for the rescue effort said. The body of John St...
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Stuff a stocking with rhino poop
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - YULEE, Fla. -- Stumped about what to give that special someone this Christmas? How about some rhino poop. The International Rhino Foundation is auctioning on eBay four p...
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Man dies after 13 years in coma; murder charges may be coming
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - DECATUR -- Central Illinois authorities are trying to decide if a man convicted in a 1994 battery of someone who has died after 13 years in a coma can now be charged wit...
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Local toymaker has heart of goldDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Jim Hildreth doesn't sport a white beard or wear a red suit, but he does have a workshop. It's a ventilated 12-foot by 18-foot piece of basement in his modest...
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Suicide truck bomber attacks police station in northern Iraq oil hub
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck filled with sand struck a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a week of bombings tha...
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The briefsDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Christmas concert at Holy Trinity The vocal choirs, small orchestra and handbells at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin will present a Christmas concert, "Come Ye Fai...
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Is 'good' bacteria in food really beneficial?
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Bugs in baby food? Microbes in your milkshake? Relax, this is not the latest tainted food scare -- it's a growing trend in foods designed to boost health, not make you s...
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Iraqi judicial system struggles
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi judges and their families live behind 12-foot blast walls. Hundreds of lawyers have fled the country. Critics complain about rapid-fire trials in an ove...
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Space shuttle launch scrubbed after fuel gauge fails a second time
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA called off Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days. It ...
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Members of 'lonely profession' get valuable support at writers groupDec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Writing is a lonely profession, according to Amy Gail Hansen of Algonquin. You can sit at your desk for hours agonizing over a single phrase -- or the words can pour fr...