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Shark falls from sky onto Southern California golf course

By The Associated Press October 25, 2012

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Nobody yelled “Fore!” at a Southern California golf course when a 2-foot-long shark dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee. The...

New York City police officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot

By The Associated Press October 25, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up a plot to torture women and then...

Activist girl’s father vows she will return to Pakistan despite threats

By The Associated Press October 25, 2012

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad...

United Kingdom Olympians appeal for help with stolen medals

By The Associated Press October 25, 2012

LONDON (AP) — Two British Olympians appealed Thursday for help in recovering a pair of bronze medals that were snatched from a London nightclub, while police reported an arrest in the case. Rower...

In this photo released Thursday Oct. 25, 2012 by The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) who are the awarding body responsible for the Dickin Medal for animal gallantry. Simon the ship's cat in this file photo with unidentified crew members. Simon cat was awarded the Dickin Medal for animal gallantry, posthumously in 1949 for his service aboard HMS Amethyst when the ship was shelled in the Yangtze Incident and Simon was injured. The latest animal to receive the Dickin Medal is announced Thursday Oct. 25, 2012, a bomb-sniffing army springer-spaniel dog named Theo, who died in Afghanistan on the day his handler was killed has been posthumously honored with the Dikin Medal, Britain's highest award for animal bravery, during a ceremony in London Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Theo worked for five months in Afghanistan with Royal Army Veterinary Corps Lance Cpl. Liam Tasker, searching out roadside bombs, but Tasker was killed in a firefight with insurgents in Helmand Province in March 2011, and Theo the dog died hours later. (AP Photo)

British army dog joins list of animal war heroes to receive Dickin Medal

By The Associated Press October 25, 2012

LONDON (AP) — British soldiers and military dogs gathered at a London army barracks Thursday to honor a fallen hero with selfless courage, nerves of steel — and four legs. Theo, a bomb-sniffing...

15-year-old arrested for three French Quarter armed robberies

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

BC-LA--French Quarter-Robberies/135 Eds: APNewsNow. Teen arrested for French Quarter armed robberies NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 15-year-old suspected gunman was arrested just hours after he allegedly...

Jindal on the road in Iowa, Florida for GOP candidates, events

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is on the road again for Republican candidates and groups. Jindal’s office said the Louisiana governor traveled to Iowa on Wednesday for a Mitt Romney presidential...

Jeremy Shockey says he is no “snitch” on “Inside The NFL”

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Shockey says he was not a whistle-blower in the Saints bounties case, and that Warren Sapp’s accusation he was has made it difficult for him to go back to New Orleans. ...

Google backpack-camera maps popular Grand Canyon hiking trails

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Google and its street-view cameras already have taken users to narrow cobblestone alleys in Spain using a tricycle, inside the Smithsonian with a push cart...

Oregon scientists make embryos with two women, one man

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain...

White House informed of Libyan terrorist attack claim Sept. 11

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two hours after the U.S. Consulate came under attack in Benghazi, Libya, the White House was told that a militant group was claiming responsibility for the violence that killed...

Prison term, $7 billion fine for 35-year-old French rogue trader

By The Associated Press October 24, 2012

PARIS (AP) — A former junior trader for France’s second-largest bank who was ordered Wednesday to pay back a staggering €4.9 billion (about $7 billion) in damages to his ex-employer is...