March 2008


A photo released by the New Britain police dept. shows Mary Ellen Welsh, who police say is missing after a home invasion in New Britian, Conn., Sunday, March 30, 2008. The assailant wounded the homeowner and forced Welsh, who had been visiting, into her car and fled with her, said Sgt. Darren Pearson. Police arrested a suspect, Leslie Williams, 31, Sunday, but Welsh has not been found.  (AP Photo/New Britian Police Dept.)AP - A sex offender recently freed from prison was arrested in the death of a woman abducted while visiting a friend, police said Monday. The friend was shot and seriously wounded.


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AP - A man who had argued with his estranged wife over the custody of their three children has confessed to drowning them in a hotel bathtub on the night they were to go back with their mother, police said Monday.

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Los Angeles police shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles after a vehicle hit a sound wall before flipping across freeway lanes on Sunday, March 30, 2008. The driver of the car, a white Honda Accord, died Sunday after being shot in the head. A second non-fatal freeway shooting was being investigated in Long Beach, authorities said. The incidents were the latest in a string of Southern California freeway shootings stretching back several weeks. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - The driver found fatally shot in the head in a car crash on a freeway was a 20-year-old Los Angeles man.


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Already sentenced for driving while intoxicated, defendants take part in court proceedings as Belen, N.M., High School seniors listen to the proceedings of Valencia County Magistrate Judge Daniel H. Hawkes during a Courts to Schools Program on Thursday, March 27, 2008 The school auditorium was turned into a courtroom when five DWI offenders were sentenced.(AP Photo/Craig Fritz)AP - Marlene Chavez stood before a hushed courtroom, acknowledging the consequences of her second drunken-driving offense. Among the spectators were hundreds of teenagers who hung on her every word.


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A child prodigy with a talent in mathematics that won her a spot at Oxford at the age of 13 somehow found her way into prostitution.

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The World Jewish Congress criticized Switzerland on Monday for participating in a gas deal with Iran that it condemned as a propaganda triumph for Tehran’s hard-liners.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that Mideast peace talks are moving in the right direction but Israel should end new settlement activities.

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A study by an award-winning cancer expert shows that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, it is reported.

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CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe, March 30 — A sheet of blue paper hanging on the notice board of a drab community hall told the tale of a remarkable upset:

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AP - A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement, his office said Monday.

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