Donors raise $630 million to eradicate polio

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:50 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Bill Gates and other donors are giving more than $630 million to the international effort to eradicate polio, after the disease spiked and spread to seven countries that were previously polio-free.

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5 shot in drive-by attack outside high school

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:11 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related drive-by attack.

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Teen charged with 4 killings in Rochester

Seeded on Thu Jan 8, 2009 1:34 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A 17-year-old high school dropout shot, bludgeoned or stabbed to death four people over the Christmas holidays, three of them in the home of a jewelry merchant, police said Thursday.

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Man, a killer at 11, sentenced in drug case

Seeded on Mon Jan 5, 2009 6:23 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A man who spent his adolescent years in state custody for a slaying he committed at age 11 was sentenced Monday to four to 20 years in prison on a drug conviction.

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Escort accused of leaving disabled man on bus

Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 6:44 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Edwin Rivera, a severely disabled 22-year-old, was supposed to be escorted home from his special-needs school.

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Smoking ban leads to big drop in heart attacks

Seeded on Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:01 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a major drop in heart attack hospitalizations, finds ?a new study that is considered the best and longest-term research to show such a link.

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Kern County To Get Funds For Childhood Obesity Prevention

Seeded on Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:53 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A program at Fresno State that works to prevent childhood obesity around California is receiving more money in an effort to help kids here in Kern County maintain a healthier lifestyle.

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Judge tosses condemned child killer's appeal

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:12 PM EST (msnbc.com)

An appeal notice filed on behalf of a convicted murderer who tortured two young siblings was dismissed Monday by a federal judge, after the defendant told him he did not want to challenge his convictions.

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Sienna Miller wins damages from paparazzi

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:04 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Actress Sienna Miller won 53,000 pounds ($79,000) in damages from a photo agency on Friday over claims of paparazzi harassment in a settlement her lawyer said could have significant implications for other celebrities.

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Girl's death sparks window blind recall

Seeded on Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:29 PM EST (msnbc.com)

About 677,300 IKEA and Green Mountain Vista window blinds and shades were recalled in the United States on Thursday after a young child was strangled.

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Italy rules dad can end daughter's life support

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:31 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Italy's highest court ruled Thursday in favor of a man's request to disconnect his daughter's feeding tube and allow her to die after 16 years in a vegetative state.

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Preparing for Tax Hikes

Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:57 PM EST (msnbc.com)

For investors, especially wealthier Americans, the victory of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign has raised the fear of higher taxes.

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Majoring in credit-card debt

Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:50 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Over the next month, as 17 million college students flood the nation's campuses, they will be greeted by swarms of credit-card marketers.? And now their role ?in helping to build students' mountains of debt is coming under great scrutiny.

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Serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63

Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:41 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63.

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Ark. court strikes down payday lending law

Seeded on Thu Nov 6, 2008 2:38 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A 1999 state law allowing so-called payday lenders to charge high fees for short-term loans violates the state constitution, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

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Jury debates guilt of Atlanta courthouse shooter

Seeded on Thu Nov 6, 2008 2:24 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Jurors on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a confessed gunman who says he was legally insane when he killed four people in a shooting spree that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.

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Man nabbed for DUI twice in less than 6 hours

Seeded on Wed Nov 5, 2008 3:48 PM EST (msnbc.com)

Police say a central Pennsylvania man was arrested on drunken driving charges twice in less than six hours.

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Canadian father guilty in girls' freezing deaths

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 5:19 PM EST (msnbc.com)

The father of two girls found frozen to death in a snowy field last winter on a Canadian native reserve pleaded guilty Monday to criminal negligence.

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Armed man waving flag shuts down highway

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 1:55 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A masked man waving an American flag and holding a handgun Monday on a Highway 101 overpass has shut down the freeway just west of Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Snowboard designs go too far? Some think so

Seeded on Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:40 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A half-dozen ski resorts in New England and the West are joining in protests against two new lines of snowboards that feature images of Playboy models and cartoons of self-mutilation.

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Junk food causes a third of heart attacks

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:21 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Diets heavy in fried foods, salty snacks and meat account for about 35 percent of heart attacks globally, researchers reported on Monday.

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Mexico to deport Cubans bound for U.S.

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:54 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Mexico agreed Monday to deport Cubans who sneak illegally through Mexican territory to reach the U.S., a step toward cutting off an increasingly violent and heavily used human trafficking route.

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3 teens charged in Detroit school shooting case

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:45 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Michigan's attorney general said Sunday that he has issued warrants for three teenagers accused of fatally shooting another teen and wounding three others near Henry Ford High School last week.

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Americans could face jury-less trials in Iraq

Seeded on Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:47 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Under new draft security agreement, American soldiers and contractors may someday ?face trials under the Iraqi judicial system that have no juries and no rules of evidence.

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College student swindler sentenced to 5 years

Seeded on Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:35 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A college student who with her boyfriend stole the identities of friends and neighbors was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.

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