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Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas.
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Medical care lags behind Afghan military growth
The young Afghan soldier lay in great pain on a cot at an army base, his uniform pants cut up to his thigh so medics could clean the wound in his right knee where he was shot fighting insurgents.
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NATIONAL
Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine.
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India floods strand thousands; more than 100 dead
Days after floods killed more than 100 people - possibly many more - rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas, officials said Thursday.
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Youth leagues try to rein in 'bad news parents'
No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video...
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NATIONAL
Victims' relatives to testify in Bulger trial
After hearing three days of testimony from a hit man who admitted killing 20 people, jurors in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger will soon get to hear from the families of some of those victims.
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WORLD
Jewish educator who survived Soviet Gulag dies
Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84.
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NATIONAL
Quotations of the day
"We're on the verge of doing something dramatic on the border. What we're trying to do is put in place measures that to any reasonable person would be an overwhelming effort to secure our border. This is a key moment in the effort to pass the bill." - Sen. Lindsay Graham, after key senators expressed...
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NATIONAL
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the few passers-by.
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NATIONAL
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
Some neighbors of a former mob hit man were shocked to learn about his past during his testimony against James "Whitey" Bulger this week.
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WORLD
SKorean nuclear operator raided in cable probe
South Korea's sole nuclear operator says investigators raided its offices as part of a probe into nuclear plant cables.




