By Sab­rina Ford, Reuven Fen­ton and Doug Auer (NY Post) A New Jer­sey woman is dev­as­tated that her pre­cious sports car — just repaired and fully gassed up — was wrecked by a sui­ci­dal man’s 40-​​story attempted death leap on the Upper West Side. “I miss it. It’s my baby,” moaned Maria McCor­mack, who regrets...
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By Rick Hamp­son (USA Today) After that cruel day nine Sep­tem­bers ago, Talat Ham­dani felt twice vic­tim­ized: first by fel­low Mus­lims who killed her son, then by fel­low Amer­i­cans who doubted that a Mus­lim like her Salman died a hero at the World Trade Center. “It’s worse now than it was then,” says Ham­dani,...
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Bruce Lisker, who was accused of killing his mother in 1985, should be sent back to prison because the U.S. 9th Cir­cuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in another case that inmates should not be allowed to file late peti­tions for release even if they can prove they are inno­cent, accord­ing to the attor­ney...
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A man recog­nised with one of the nation’s high­est hon­ours for his work with divorced and sep­a­rated fathers is now liv­ing on the street. Tony Miller, the founder of Dads in Dis­tress, will accept his Order of Aus­tralia medal in Syd­ney today. He says he has been sleep­ing in his car on the New...
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By Dex­ter Filkins and Alissa J. Rubin (New York Times) One of the country’s most senior pros­e­cu­tors said Sat­ur­day that Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai fired him last week after he repeat­edly refused to block cor­rup­tion inves­ti­ga­tions at the high­est lev­els of Mr. Karzai’s government. West­ern offi­cials con­firm reports that Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and...
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By Jeff Riven­bark STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) — A man who was with about a dozen peo­ple who were look­ing for a leg­endary “ghost train” in Iredell County was hit by a loco­mo­tive and killed early Fri­day morning. Christo­pher Kaiser, 29, died at the scene and two more peo­ple were injured, accord­ing to Iredell County...
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By John Lauinger, Jonathan Lemire, Melissa Grace and Bill Hutchin­son (NY Daily News) Michael Enright, 21, of upstate Brew­ster, was charged with felony attempted mur­der as a hate crime — among other crimes — after the sick attack on Ahmed Sharif, 43, Tues­day night. Enright slashed Sharif across the face, arm and hand after ask­ing...
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by Steve Kemme (Cincin­nati Enquirer) ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio — Colon­dra Hamil­ton, 36, of Cincin­nati had her pants unzipped, a sex toy in her lap, and was watch­ing a video on a lap­top com­puter. A front-​​seat pas­sen­ger had been hold­ing the com­puter so she could see it, Hamil­ton told police. via Police: Dri­ver dis­tracted by...
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By Ryan Abbott UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (CN) — A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misiden­ti­fied as a can­cer patient claims secu­rity guards at Prince George’s Hos­pi­tal beat him up when he tried to leave the hos­pi­tal to avoid chest surgery he didn’t need “to have a poten­tially can­cer­ous mass...
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A survey conducted with 6,000 Britons by Travelodge revealed 35% of adults admitted they sleep with their teddy because they found cuddling their bear comforting. Also the calming feeling of a bear hug also helps them to de-stress after a hard day -- which aids sleep. Research findings also revealed 25% of male respondents...
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