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What does it take to get people to flee a storm?

What does it take to get people to flee a storm?
By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders as Superstorm Sandy closed in. Now, after scores of deaths and harrowing escapes, emergency

AMBER ALERT OVER; TEEN FOUND ALIVE

AMBER ALERT OVER; TEEN FOUND ALIVE
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A missing 16-year-old Tacoma girl has been found OK.    Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum says tips led officers to a Tacoma house about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday where they found Briana Troyer and Terrence D. Powell asleep.    Fulghum says the girl

AMBER ALERT OVER; TEEN FOUND ALIVE

AMBER ALERT OVER; TEEN FOUND ALIVE
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A missing 16-year-old Tacoma girl has been found OK.    Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum says tips led officers to a Tacoma house about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday where they found Briana Troyer and Terrence D. Powell asleep.    Fulghum says the girl

Texas inmate who admitted rapes seeks compensation

Texas inmate who admitted rapes seeks compensation
By NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) - When Michael Blair was sent to death row for the infamous murder of a 7-year-old Texas girl, he insisted he never killed anyone. More than a decade later, genetic testing showed he was telling the truth. But during those long years behind bars,

'I stole from a 9-year-old': Court-ordered shaming

'I stole from a 9-year-old': Court-ordered shaming
By The Associated Press A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus was ordered this week to hold a sign at the intersection reading, "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus." It was the latest example of creative, and sometimes

LA police search for girl who was dragged away

LA police search for girl who was dragged away
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police climbed up and down undeveloped hills east of downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday in a massive search for a teenage girl or woman after witnesses reported seeing a man drag her away by the hair. Searchers on foot and horseback combed 455 acres of the El Sereno hills while

NY woman to get $2.7M for wrongful conviction

NY woman to get $2.7M for wrongful conviction
By CAROLYN THOMPSONAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A New York woman who spent more than 13 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her teenage daughter has reached a $2.7 million settlement with the state, her attorney said Tuesday. Lynn DeJac Peters, whose conviction

Preliminary hearing ends in Afghan massacre case

Preliminary hearing ends in Afghan massacre case
By RACHEL LA CORTEAssociated Press JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) - Army prosecutors on Tuesday asked an investigative officer to recommend a death penalty court-martial for a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage, saying that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales

Officials: Grant County Man Jailed For Child Rape

Officials: Grant County Man Jailed For Child Rape
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: A Mattawa man is jailed for suspicion of sexually assaulting one of his children. This information is written to protect the identities of any and all victims, and therefore specific information regarding the suspect and the victims is

Officials: Grant County Man Jailed For Child Rape

Officials: Grant County Man Jailed For Child Rape
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: A Mattawa man is jailed for suspicion of sexually assaulting one of his children. This information is written to protect the identities of any and all victims, and therefore specific information regarding the suspect and the victims is