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Key events in career of former Sen. Arlen Specter

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 14th

By The Associated Press Major events in the timeline of outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter's career in politics: - 1959: Hired as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. - 1964: Serves on the Warren Commission, which concludes that a lone assassin killed President John F. Kennedy. - 1965:

Search for body of UNH student put on hold

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DOVER, N.H. (AP) - The search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student was suspended Sunday ahead of the arraignment for a martial arts instructor active in community theater who's been charged in her death, a prosecutor said. A ground and water search on and around

Long after death, Confederate spy honored in Ark.

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By JEANNIE NUSSAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in his home state. Street signs and an elementary school in the

GOP senator alleges cover-up on Libya

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By ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior Republican senator on Sunday accused President Barack Obama's aides of deliberately covering up the details of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador so that voters wouldn't question Obama's handling of

Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony

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By MAX SEDDONAssociated Press MOSCOW (AP) - It's a far cry from Stalin's gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony -- the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot -- remains the same: isolate inmates and wear them down through "corrective labor." Maria

Debate preparation trumps 2012 campaigning Sunday

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By JULIE PACE and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated Press BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) - As Mitt Romney's campaign claimed new momentum in the race for the White House, President Barack Obama's political advisers on Sunday promised the incumbent would unleash his more aggressive side in Tuesday's

Debate preparation trumps 2012 campaigning Sunday

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Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war

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By KARIN LAUBAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs - indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations - in a new sign of desperation and disregard for its own people. The international group Human Rights Watch cited amateur

Suspect charged in death of missing UNH student

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DOVER, N.H. (AP) - An actor and martial arts instructor was charged in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who disappeared last week, and the girl's family pleaded for her to be brought home. Law enforcement officials believe Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, a marine

Missing NH college student dead; suspect charged

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 13th

DOVER, N.H. (AP) - A martial arts instructor active in community theater was charged Saturday in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who disappeared days earlier. Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, a marine biology major who volunteered at the New England Aquarium, is believed