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Army sergeant sentenced to life in Colo. slaying

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 13th

By By DAN ELLIOTTAssociated Press FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - A weeping Army sergeant on Thursday apologized to the family of a female soldier he admitted killing, after a military panel convicted him of unpremeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison. Sgt. Vincinte Jackson said he

Former Fla. police officer scheduled for execution

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By TAMARA LUSHAssociated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Manuel Pardo was a decorated Florida police officer before he was fired for lying and turned to life as a vigilante, slaying nine people during a three-month crime spree. Almost 27 years later, Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday

Group gathers mistletoe for holidays on river trip

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By ALLEN G. BREEDAP National Writer LILLINGTON, N.C. (AP) - There's an old southern tradition of shooting mistletoe out of treetops with a .22 rifle, or even a shotgun. Forrest Altman prefers a kinder, gentler way of harvesting the parasitic evergreen plant long associated with Christmas

Vietnam veterans sue military in Conn. over PTSD

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 4th

By By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSENAssociated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The military has failed to correct the wrongful discharges of thousands of Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, an advocacy group says in a federal lawsuit. Vietnam Veterans of America on Monday joined

Vampire on the loose in Serbia?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By DUSAN STOJANOVICAssociated Press ZAROZJE, Serbia (AP) - Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, nestled between lush green mountain slopes and spooky thick forests. They say

UPDATE: 911 Outage In Spokane County

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

WEDNESDAY UPDATE FROM SPOKANE COUNTY: SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. – Spokane County's 9-1-1 and Crime Check operations Wednesday continue to be operated out of the back-up center for emergency communications. CenturyLink officials this evening still are trying to determine the cause of

UPDATE: 911 Outage In Spokane County

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

Residents in blast-shaken subdivision want answers

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

By CHARLES WILSONAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - When a house two blocks away exploded with a deafening boom, the staggering force knocked Billie Chipman to the floor. The freckled 16-year-old hasn't slept since. "I was walking to the couch and I fell," she said Thursday. As clocks and

Boeing sued over US-Poland plane that crash-landed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 9th

By MICHAEL TARMAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Passengers on a plane that crash-landed in Poland last year when its landing gear failed to deploy have sued Boeing and the firm that inspected the airliner before it departed New Jersey, with one attorney saying his clients suffered severe

Will Jersey shore ever be the same after Sandy?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 4th

By WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) - It is one of the icons of America, the backdrop to a thousand stories - the place where Tony Soprano's nightmares unfolded, where Nucky Thompson built his "Boardwalk Empire," where Snooki and The Situation brought reality TV to the