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His Toughest Case: Police Chief Hunts for Daughter's Killer

20 Sep 2010 at 9:56am
North Carolina Police Chief Merle Hamilton is faced with his toughest case yet, solving the murder of his daughter, Valerie Hamilton, 23.



North Carolina - Murder - Chief of police - Police - United States

Legal Executions DOA Thanks to Drug Shortage

20 Sep 2010 at 11:35am
A shortage of a key ingredient of the lethal injection cocktail used by prisons is forcing some states to delay scheduled executions until next year. The crucial component, sodium thiopental -- better known as Pentothal -- is an anesthetic that is combined with two other drugs that complete the fatal shot.



Lethal injection - Sodium thiopental - Capital punishment - United States - Death

Petit Judge Hospitalized, Halting Gruesome Home Invasion Trial

20 Sep 2010 at 9:10am
The judge in the trail of Steven Hayes, accused in a deadly Connecticut home invasion, has been hospitalized. Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue was in the hospital over the weekend after he complained of feeling light-headed, the Hartford Courant reported. The trail will be postponed until at least Wednesday.



Connecticut - Superior court - Home invasion - Hartford Courant - United States

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Mormon-Owned Paper Stands With Immigrants

20 Sep 2010 at 2:45am
A Utah paper?s sympathy for undocumented immigrants has led to a collision with its conservative readers.

For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again

20 Sep 2010 at 9:27am
A growing number of those who desperately need to work fear they have already been shut out of the work force.

Can You Steal a Whole Building? Thieves Cart Off St. Louis Bricks

20 Sep 2010 at 10:10am
Where thieves in many cities harvest copper, aluminum and other materials from vacant buildings, brick rustling has emerged more recently as a sort of scrapper?s endgame.

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Thousands flee Utah's 'Machine Gun Fire'

20 Sep 2010 at 11:46am

A wind-stoked fire sparked at a National Guard firing range blazed across thousands of acres southwest of Salt Lake City , forcing more than 1,600 homes to evacuate, officials said.

?Great Recession? over, research group says

20 Sep 2010 at 11:54am
The "Great Recession" has ended. That's the word from the private research organization that calls the beginnings and endings of recessions, the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Super salmon or 'frankenfish'? FDA to decide

20 Sep 2010 at 11:12am

The FDA is to hear arguments for and against genetically engineered salmon, which some say could feed the hungry but which others warn will unleash a "frankenfish" on the world.