A small plane crashed Saturday, July 25, near Mount Carmel, Illinois, at the intersection of Highway 15 and County Road 850. The plane was destroyed and the pilot died on impact, the only person onboard. The plane is purportedly registered to James M. Bowers of Mount Juliet...
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A water bomber plane crashed into Okanagan Lake Saturday, July 25, while fighting wildfires in Terrace Mountain, near Kelowna, BC. The pilot was rescued by two boats in the lake and sustained minor injuries. The...
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Steve Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez have reunited and married after losing each other 16 years ago. The couple met and fell in love 17 years ago, when Ruiz-Perez was an exchange student from Spain in Brixham, England, becoming engaged one year later. Smith and Ruiz-Perez...
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GOP Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley, who recently sponsored a bill against gay couples adopting and has publicly professed his belief in abstinence on repeated occasions, has admitted to having sex with...
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Fergus Conway, 14, Phoebe Conway, 10, and their cousin Azra Young, 14, died in a cabin fire in Eagle Bay at Shuswap Lake the morning of Thursday, July 23. Neighbour Ken Clough reported witnessing flames 200 feet in the air, which took firefighters approximately three hours...
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The University of South Florida (USF) Tampa campus went into lockdown on Friday, July 24, after reports surfaced of a gunman on campus.In the early afternoon, university officials announced there was possibly a...
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Ri Hyon Ok, a 33-year-old Christian woman in North Korea, was executed for distributing copies of the Bible, which is banned in the country. South Korean human rights activists revealed this event as a sign of a renewed crackdown on religion in North Korea, despite the fact...
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New York City has been discriminating against minorities in firefighter hirings, ruled US District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on Wednesday, July 22. According to Garaufis, black and Hispanic people make up only 10 percent of the firefighter work force in New York, despite the...
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The US military bombed 300 tons of poppy seeds in Helmand Province, Tuesday, July 21, as part of their war on drugs in Afghanistan. "Today’s air strikes were the latest, and likely most heavy-handed exercise of...
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Maclean's magazine has released a list ranking the 31 capital and largest cities in Canada in terms of how well the cities are run. Burnaby, Saskatoon, Surrey, and Vancouver top the list, while Charlottetown, Kingston, and Fredericton bring up the rear. The survey was...
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Kitwana Jones, a football player who plays defensive for the Edmonton Eskimos, captured a purse-snatcher the morning of Tuesday, July 21, using his well-honed tackling abilities. Jones was on his way to a breakfast appearance at the Alberta legislature, when he heard...
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Six members of the Al Qaeda Tarim cell were sentenced to death for terrorism, by a judge in Yemen. The Tarim cell represented the Yemeni wing of Al Qaeda, and included four Syrians and a Saudi Arabian in addition to 11 Yemenis. In addition to the death sentences, the...
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Pamela Laverne Long, a "person of interest" in the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings, the "super parents" of 16 children, many of whom were special-needs, turned herself in for questioning on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. According to Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan, Long...
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On Wednesday, July 15, In Touch Weekly reported Jon Gosselin was engaged to girlfriend Hailey Glassman. The father of Jon & Kate Plus 8 fame had purportedly given Glassman a $180,000 Edouard Nahum ring of a skull surrounded by four black diamonds, during a recent vacation...
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Hundreds of confidential Twitter documents were sent to TechCrunch, a well-known technology and Web 2.0 news blog, on July 14, 2009. The documents were sent by a hacker using the pseudonym "Hacker Croll", who told...
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