Maine’s congressional delegation is shocked by the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
2011
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Guns in kids’ bedrooms? A boy shooting his mom won’t change rural Ohio
BIG PRAIRIE, Ohio – The guns were kept in the boy’s bedroom, resting on a rack mounted to the wall. The one investigators say was used to kill his mother — a .22-caliber rifle — was found lying on his bed. On a cold winter evening in Big Prairie, a rural hunting town, the 10-year-old […]
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Giffords’ centrist views sit well in ‘red’ district
She succeeded an 11-term Republican in 2006 and has been re-elected twice.
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Troops get Saco send-off
Eighteen Army Reserve soldiers will deploy Wednesday for Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for the next year.
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Simpson lawyer answers critics
F. Lee Bailey: “So many people said, ‘You are the reason he got off.’ It is very frustrating, a terribly raw deal. … It is the most sustained assault on my credibility that I have ever experienced. Why — if I knew he was guilty — why go around taking this abuse?”
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Steve Solloway: So very like the Fitzy back then
With a football in his hands he transformed into the great ad-libber. He drove opponents mad with his improvisations. He didn’t look like the prototypical quarterback but played like one. He didn’t have a great arm, but his heart and mind more than compensated. Teammates believed more in themselves when he was on the field. […]
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Report: Germany knew Eichmann’s hiding place
BERLIN – Germany’s BND intelligence agency knew as early as 1952 that Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi leader who orchestrated the Holocaust, was hiding in Buenos Aires, a media report said Saturday. The report in Germany’s Bild newspaper comes after the U.S. in 2006 released files showing the CIA told the BND in 1958 Eichmann “is […]
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On Baseball: Decisiveness among Boles’ strong suits
When Kevin Boles makes up his mind, he moves quickly. That is why Boles is ascending the managerial ladder, having landed in Portland with the Double-A Sea Dogs. And that is why Boles, who was raised in Florida, now lives in Northport, Wash., 15 miles from the Canadian border. A friend once told Boles to […]
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14 bodies decapitated in Acapulco
Handwritten signs suggest the Sinaloa drug cartel killed the men for trying to intrude on their turf.
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Al-Sadr calls U.S. ‘enemy’ in his first speech since exile
The radical Shiite cleric demands military and cultural resistance to any American presence in Iraq.