JENIN, West Bank – A top Islamic Jihad militant surrendered to Israeli soldiers early Thursday, witnesses said, after a daylong siege during which army bulldozers knocked down the four-story house where he was hiding. Dozens of troops surrounded the building in the town of Jenin in the hunt for Iyad …
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NEW YORK – What’s in a name? In Jessica Simpson‘s case, at least $15 million. A company that markets celebrities’ names says it set up the deal that got Jessica Simpson Brand Management LLC $15 million for worldwide rights to her name to market certain merchandise, including clothing. But the …
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. – An Arkansas (search) judge Tuesday dismissed a large part of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s lawsuit against former Vice Chairman Tom Coughlin, saying the executive and the company had agreed not to sue one another over any events that happened during Coughlin’s tenure. Wal-Mart (WMT) had claimed Coughlin, a …
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WASHINGTON – Bedeviled by problems at home, President Bush (search) is confronting a new slate of troubles abroad this week on his first trip to Argentina, Brazil and Panama. He hasn’t been able to achieve a Western Hemisphere trade agreement, thousands of anti-American demonstrators are planning street protests and leftist …
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HIALEAH, Fla. – A 17-year-old girl who disappeared at the same time as a convicted sex offender has been found safe and the man dead, FOX News has confirmed. Police in Hialeah, Fla., said that Robert Laird was discovered dead with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after leaving his home …
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Tampa, Fla. – An 18-year-old student was killed and three other people wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting in the parking lot of a McDonald‘s restaurant across the street from a high school, sheriff’s officials said. The shooting just before 3 p.m. in the crowded parking lot of the restaurant …
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LE BLANC MESNIL, France – Theirs is a drab life of days spent smoking hashish, hanging out on street corners. They fidget and talk big. The only things they have in abundance are time and rancor. Ask what their dreams are, the response is blank stares. Shouting over each other …
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CHICAGO – Forget shuffleboard, needlepoint and bingo. Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and home to screeds by middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens. There’s Dad’s Tomato Garden Journal, Dogwalk Musings, and, of course, the Oldest Living Blogger. “It’s …
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Authorities on Thursday issued an Amber Alert for a missing three-year-old boy who apparently was taken from Northeast Georgia Medical Center (search). Gainesville police say Lawonia Pinson Hoose of Cleveland left the hospital about 4:30 p.m. Thursday with her great-nephew — Isaac Hoose — saying she was …
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NEW YORK – Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. (HET), the world’s biggest casino operator, on Thursday said its third-quarter profit rose 42 percent thanks to additional revenue from recently acquired Caesars Entertainment (search). Las Vegas-based Harrah’s (search) posted net income of $169 million, compared with $118.8 million a year earlier. Its diluted …
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