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Hostages freed from Somali pirates thanks to message in bottle was found

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October 11, 2011

ROME (AP) — British and U.S. forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in a dramatic rescue Tuesday after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole alerting...

Bill Daley says he will be one-term White House chief of staff

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October 11, 2011

CHICAGO (AP) — White House chief of staff Bill Daley says he'll return to his native Chicago after the 2012 election. Daley tells WMAQ-TV he has committed to stay with President Barack Obama in Washington...

Kansas’s capital city repeals domestic violence law

By The Associated Press
October 11, 2011

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Over the past month, one by one, people suspected in domestic battery cases in northeast Kansas have been set free with no charges against them. Prosecutors say they're overwhelmed...

United Kingdom auctioneer to sell piece of Saddam Hussein statue

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October 11, 2011

LONDON (AP) — An English auction house is selling a chunk of metal it says came from the buttock of a bronze Saddam Hussein statue that was toppled in Iraq in 2003. Charles Hanson, of Hansons Auctioneers,...

Louisiana man arrested for impersonating police officer

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October 11, 2011

SHREVEPORT (AP) — A man who allegedly tried to pass himself off as a Shreveport police officer during a fight in a parking garage has been arrested on a charge of impersonating a police officer. Police...

Big Ben clock tower slightly askew

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October 10, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Big Ben has a little bend. Experts say the neogothic clock tower — one of the world's most recognizable landmarks — is gently leaning to one side. Documents recently published...

A photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the remains of a killer whale in the Nushagak river near Portage Creek, Alaska Saturday Oct. 8, 2011. Federal biologists have confirmed that two of the three killer whales that swam far up the river in southwestern Alaska have died.

No sign of young killer whale in Alaska river

By The Associated Press
October 10, 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal fisheries official says an aerial survey has failed to find a juvenile killer whale last seen swimming in a river in southwest Alaska. NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman...

Seven survive 20 hours at sea clinging to capsized boat, cooler

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October 10, 2011

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard. Seven of them, including a 4-year-old girl, survived...

Ace hardware chain offers Halloween ‘zombie defense’ tools

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October 10, 2011

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Hardware store manager Mike Dowling wants to be clear: His shovels might slow an attacking zombie, but you'll need something else to put the final nail in the creature's coffin. "I...

Italian cargo ship attacked by five pirates off Somalia

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October 10, 2011

ROME (AP) — State TV in Italy says pirates have attacked an Italian cargo ship carrying 23 crew members in waters off Somalia. The ship's owner, D'Alessio Group, said five armed men conducted the...

Syphilis on the rise in northwest La., Caddo ranked fourth nationally

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October 10, 2011

SHREVEPORT (AP) — Health officials are looking at ways to stem the rising number of syphilis cases in northwest Louisiana. There were 142 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in adults in Caddo...

Christians under siege in post-revolution Egypt protest after riots

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October 10, 2011

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim...