LOS ANGELES – Paris Hilton has been subpoenaed as a witness in a criminal case. “She’s not charged with anything,” district attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said Tuesday. “She just happens to be a witness.” The case involves burglary, robbery, kidnapping and carjacking charges against Darnell Riley, 28, who was arrested …
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WASHINGTON – Scientists will begin testing in January whether they can stretch the nation’s limited supply of an experimental bird-flu vaccine by pairing it with an immune-system booster. Preliminary research with a different vaccine suggests that approach may work, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease chief, …
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QITAIHE, China – Anxious relatives demanded to be allowed into a coal mine Monday after an explosion killed at least 134 miners and left 15 others missing, adding to a soaring death toll in China‘s mines despite a safety crackdown. The blast in the Dongfeng Coal Mine prompted national leaders …
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SAN FRANCISCO – TiVo Inc. (TIVO) Tuesday posted a narrower net loss as the maker of digital video recorders added more subscribers from its relationship with DirecTV, but Tivo-owned net subscription additions declined. The company said its net loss for its third fiscal quarter ended in October was $14.2 million, …
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This is a partial transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from Nov. 22, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. BRIAN WILSON, GUEST HOST: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells FOX News she’s encouraged about the political future of Iraq. In a conversation with FOX News Chief Washington Correspondent …
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RICHMOND, Va. – A day before Robin Lovitt was to become the 1,000th person executed since capital punishment resumed in 1977, Virginia’s governor spared his life. Lovitt’s sentence on Tuesday was commuted to life in prison without parole for stabbing a man to death with a pair of scissors during …
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MOULTON, Ala. – A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder Monday in the killing of a teacher who was beaten, robbed and left for dead at the school where she worked. Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter (search) said prosecutors would ask a judge to decide whether the teenager can be tried …
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve (search), still concerned about inflation, raised a key interest rate on Tuesday to the highest level in more than four years and signaled more increases are likely. The Fed announced it was pushing its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge …
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IMUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan – Health authorities Saturday launched a two-week campaign to immunize 800,000 children in divided Kashmir following concerns that infectious disease could thrive in the crowded and sometimes squalid tent camps for earthquake survivors. Plans to move survivors from one of the many camps that sprung up spontaneously and …
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LITITZ, Pa. – Fifty-four guns were seized from the home of an 18-year-old in custody for shooting his girlfriend’s parents dead and then taking her on the lam, court papers show. The weapons and ammunition removed from David Ludwig‘s home were confiscated in a search conducted Sunday, according to the …
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