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Dems pouring money, Obama into Mass. Senate race

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By STEVE PEOPLESAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Fearful of another surprise Republican victory, Democrats are pouring money into the Massachusetts Senate race to succeed John Kerry and dispatching President Barack Obama to the state to rally party loyalists two weeks before Election Day. Republicans

Technicolor star Esther Williams dies at age 91

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By BOB THOMASAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. Williams died early Thursday in her sleep, according to her longtime publicist Harlan Boll

Brazilian billionaire's son convicted in death

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The son of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cyclist, the Rio de Janeiro state judiciary said Thursday. Batista's 21-year-old son Thor hit the cyclist last year while driving his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren at

French activist killed in fight with skinheads

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By LORI HINNANTAssociated Press PARIS (AP) - A group of skinheads beat a French far-left activist to death in the heart of Paris' shopping district, officials said Thursday, in an attack that raised fears of increased far-right violence. Political tensions are high in France after months of

Obama-Xi meeting in Calif. sets low-key tone

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By GILLIAN FLACCUSAssociated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty - real and Hollywood - soaked up

Obama-Xi meeting in Calif. sets low-key tone

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Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans

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By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) - Seated at a table with his hands folded in front of him, twiddling his thumbs, an American soldier dryly spoke about how he slipped away from his base in Afghanistan last year in the middle of the night and killed 16 civilians,

Search halted in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead

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By KATHY MATHESON, KEITH COLLINS and MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After a slow but steady overnight search buoyed by the discovery of a woman in the rubble, rescue workers at the scene of a building collapse that killed six people took a temporary break Thursday in what had

Family Of Murder Victim Regan Jolley Talk To KHQ

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Loved ones describe murder victim Regan Jolley, 33, as a loving, caring mother that was taken too soon. Jolley's body was found was found in a tub of acid in a detached garage off of West Autumn Lane in Nine Mile Falls Tuesday afternoon. Jason Hart, 27, an Iraq War veteran diagnosed with PTSD,

Family Of Murder Victim Regan Jolley Talks To KHQ

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 6th