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Published
October 6, 2012

Boy writes of feelings for feline euthanized in error

SALT LAKE CITY – An 8-year-old Utah boy wrote a letter to his local newspaper after an animal shelter worker failed to write a note to save his cat from being euthanized. “Yesterday grown-ups killed my kitty, my best friend, when they weren’t supposed to,” he said. The letter appeared in The Herald Journal, of […]
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October 6, 2012

U.S. suspects Pakistan-based Haqqani in attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Haqqani insurgent network, based in Pakistan and with ties to al-Qaida, is suspected of being a driving force behind a significant number of the “insider” attacks by Afghan forces that have killed or wounded more than 130 U.S. and allied troops this year, American officials said Friday. Until now, officials had […]
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October 6, 2012

FBI blames ‘friendly fire’ for border agent shootings

PHOENIX – The FBI said Friday a preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border, shaking up the probe into an incident that re-ignited the political debate over security on the border. The shootings Tuesday about five miles north of the border […]
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October 6, 2012

Scalia says he’s ‘textualist’ of Constitution

He also emphatically once again denies that there's a rift among the court's conservative justices.
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October 6, 2012

Five terrorist suspects flown to U.S.

The five, including radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri, lose a final appeal to Britain's High Court.

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October 6, 2012

World/Nation Dispatches

BEIRUT Attacks on Homs, Aleppo intensify pressure on rebels The Syrian military opened a second urban front Friday, attacking the rebel stronghold of Homs with the most intense artillery barrage in months and putting opposition fighters there and in Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, increasingly on the defensive. Syria’s civil war has been locked in a […]
Published
October 6, 2012

U.S. unemployment: Politics, statistics morph into conspiracy

Some question the decline in jobless figures a month before Election Day.
Published
October 5, 2012

U.S. border agent likely killed by friendly fire

It appears the two agents exchanged gunfire Tuesday in the mistaken belief that each was firing at a hostile gunman.
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October 5, 2012

Bulger lawyers to brief judge on evidence exchange

The 83-year-old Boston mobster is awaiting trial for his alleged role in 19 killings.
Published
October 5, 2012

Jobs report gives Obama much-needed boost

The figures announced by the Labor Department gave Obama fresh evidence on the heels of his disappointing debate performance to argue that his economic policies are working.