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Mich. man charged after death of 400-pound wife

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 31st

WARREN, Mich. (AP) - The husband of a 400-pound Detroit-area woman has been charged with abuse after her recent death. Authorities are accusing Michael Brooks of ignoring Yolanda Reese-Brooks and allowing her to fester in a bed surrounded by her own waste. The 40-year-old Warren woman died of

Correa taxes bank profits to help poor

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By GONZALO SOLANOAssociated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - President Rafael Correa has long used his bully pulpit to bash bankers as profit-mongers who brought Ecuador and the rest of the world to the edge of financial collapse. Now, he says he'll give a bigger share of those profits to the

IRS extends deadline for storm-hit taxpayers

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By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The IRS is giving taxpayers and tax preparers hit by Hurricane Sandy an extra week to file returns and make payments. The tax agency says the relief will apply mainly to businesses in the storm-impacted Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states whose payroll

Hyundai adds new Elantra hatchback

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By ANN M. JOBFor The Associated Press The new-for-2013 Hyundai Elantra GT hatchback is a stylish, fuel-sipping, nimble car with surprisingly quiet interior and luxury touches that include a huge panoramic sunroof and a sliding center armrest. Despite the name, though, this new Hyundai is not

Man Rescues Newborn From Dumpster, Makes Another Shocking Discovery

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KHQ.COM - A man who saved a newborn baby from a dumpster after a passerby heard the child crying received quite a shock after learning the child was his. The 30-year-old Calgary man had just parked outside his apartment complex when another person announced they heard crying coming from an

Obama goes to FEMA before visit to storm-racked NJ

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By KEN THOMASAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is paying a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters ahead of his trip to New Jersey to see the damage done by superstorm Sandy. Obama took a motorcade to FEMA's offices to meet with agency chiefs before a

GOP candidate among 3 killed in W.Va. weather

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia legislative candidate is the third person in the state reported to be killed in accidents related to weather from superstorm Sandy. George Rose tells The Associated Press that his 60-year-old father, John Rose Sr., was checking fences on his deer farm in

Experts give causes of emergency landing in Poland

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By MONIKA SCISLOWSKAAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Aviation experts said Wednesday that a LOT Polish Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, made an emergency landing in Warsaw last year because of technical problems with the Boeing 767 and inadequate guidance in its cockpit handbook.

Gas fires hit NJ shore town, no injuries reported

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BRICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A series of natural gas fires broke out in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Sandy, but officials say no one was injured. Video from WNBC-TV in New York showed flames reaching over the Curtis Point section of Brick Township early Wednesday. There was a large

A state-by-state look at the East Coast superstorm

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By The Associated Press The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 74 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at more than 5.6 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8