SPRINGDALE, Ark. – A developer who claims sales in a subdivision stopped after a sex offender and his wife bought a home has sued the couple and the real estate company that arranged the purchase. NGI Rental (search) filed the $2 million lawsuit Friday against Randall Dee Collins (search) and …
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For postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer, switching from tamoxifen (after two years of treatment) to Arimidex may provide more cancer protection than staying on tamoxifen, new research shows. That finding, published in The Lancet, is based on data from two trials. Researchers reviewing the trials’ data included Raimund …
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GREENBELT, Md. – Nineteen men were charged in a federal racketeering indictment that accuses them of killings and other violent crimes as members of the MS-13 (search) gang. The indictments released Thursday say the men committed shootings, kidnappings and other gang-related crimes from April 2003 through June of this year. …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Same-sex couples who raise children are lawful parents and must provide for them if they break up, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The precedent-setting decision puts former gay and lesbian couples on equal ground with unmarried heterosexual couples who break up and marks the latest decision …
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – The Uzbek government won backing from the country’s upper house on Friday for ordering the United States to withdraw troops from the Central Asian nation. The 93 Senators present voted unanimously for a resolution supporting the government’s July 29 order giving the United States six months to …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Sunni Arab negotiator said Saturday that Sunnis submitted counterproposals on Iraq’s constitution and would meet with the U.S. ambassador, who has urged the country’s factions to produce a charter acceptable to all. Earlier, parliament Speaker Hajim al-Hassani (search), himself a Sunni, said Shiites and Kurds had …
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A Canadian economist whose reference to sheiks and mullahs in an analysis of oil prices offended a Muslim group in Canada has been sentenced to sensitivity indoctrination in the wake of the scandal, reports Toronto’s Globe and Mail. Jeff Rubin of CIBC World Markets predicted in April that oil demand …
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WASHINGTON – The following is a transcript from “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace” on August 28, 2005. CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: In Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan (search) led a rally of anti-war demonstrators. She told the crowd their efforts could end the fighting in Iraq. Nearby, supporters of President Bush …
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NEW YORK – Lily Allen, who announced her pregnancy last month, has had a miscarriage. “She and her partner, Ed Simons, will be making no further comment and we ask that their privacy be respected during this difficult time,” Allen’s spokesman, Jon Bills, said Friday in a statement. Simons, 37, …
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This is a rush transcript from “America’s Election HQ,” May 13, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. BILL HEMMER, CO-HOST: James Carville hit the roof on fellow long time “Clintonistas,” Bill Richardson, endorsed Barack Obama earlier on the year. He called him …
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