PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — A police officer was shot in the head at a Dunkin’ Donuts shop Wednesday morning, a day after another officer was shot in the shoulder during a chase.

The officer injured in Wednesday morning’s shooting was taken to a hospital, but his condition was not immediately known, according to Officer Raul Malveiro, a police spokesman. Continue Reading »

A model who killed three people while trying to commit suicide has been told she faces up to ten years in jail.

Stunning Jeanette Sliwinski deliberately rammed her car into another vehicle that had stopped at a red light.

The three occupants of the car were killed instantly in the horror smash - while Sliwinski only suffered a broken ankle in the accident, which happened two years ago.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.
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Entertainer Robert Goulet, who gained legions of fans with his rich, baritone singing voice and handsome features, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 73.Goulet passed away Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was was awaiting a lung transplant. He was admitted to the hospital last month with a lung disease known as pulmonary fibrosis. Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON (AFP)–Iraq’s largest dam is in danger of collapse and hundreds of thousands of people are at risk from a massive flood in Mosul and Baghdad, according to U.S. documents released Tuesday. Continue Reading »

Lawmakers, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have taken thousands in campaign cash from an embattled Nobel-prize winning scientist while earmarking federal money for his New York lab.
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A majority of likely voters - 52 percent - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53 percent believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.
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A 19-year-old woman appears to have escaped from a juvenile detention center in northwest Germany by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was released, police said on Monday.

Guards at the facility in Neustadt remarked that the suitcase of the 18-year-old who walked free on Friday was particularly heavy but failed to search it, the police said.
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A 45-year-old Fulton man is in jail without bail related to an incident where he allegedly dragged a woman down a driveway with his car, threatened a man with a machete, then punched the man and a child he was holding, Oswego Sheriff’s deputies say.

Jesus R. Medina, of 1154 CR 8, is facing charges of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree menacing and endangering the welfare of a child, deputies say. Medina was arraigned in Granby town court, lodged in the Oswego County Correctional facility and scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 8. Continue Reading »

A Belgian man has been fined 60 Euros for delaying a commuter train after he helped a woman from being crushed that was stuck between the doors. “I apparently could have caused a delay and that is not permitted,” said Daniël Dewulf.

He added, “The train arrived right on time in Bruges in any event. The conductor did not see my point that I may have saved the woman’s life as a mitigating circumstance. Result: 60-euro fine.” Continue Reading »