Child welfare officials and state troopers stand guard outside a maternity ward in Texas where a teenage member of a polygamist sect was giving birth.
April 2008
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Wed 30 Apr 2008
Officials Stand By as Polygamist Sect Mother Gives Birth
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Wed 30 Apr 2008
Paper Carrier Saves Woman Pinned for Days Under Dead Hubby
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A newspaper carrier saved an elderly woman who apparently spent days trapped beneath her dead husband’s body in southern Illinois.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Cops: Skeleton Remained on Couch While Others Lived in Home
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The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while other people continued living in the house, authorities said.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Report: Teen Out With Friend Hours After Family Slaying
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Nathan Dickson, accused of shooting his father, stepmother, stepsister and brother on Saturday morning, was out cruising on four-wheelers with is friend just hours after the slayings, Creel told the Independent-Mail of Anderson.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Presbyterian Church Clears Minister in Gay Marriage Case
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The highest court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has found that a California minister did not violate denominational law when she officiated at the weddings of two lesbian couples.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Bottle Bomb Packed With Hooks, BBs Explodes at Calif. School
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Authorities say a crude bomb containing fish hooks and BBs packed inside a plastic bottle exploded at Northern California junior high school.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, April 30 — Salim Ahmed Hamdan Wednesday morning followed through with his threat to boycott military commissions hearings here, opting to sleep in his cell while lawyers hashed out preliminary legal motions ahead of his trial scheduled for late May.
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Spectacular blaze erupts in nightclub at Hollywood and Vine (AP)
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AP - A fire at the storied corner of Hollywood and Vine spit flames 40 feet into the air Wednesday, burning close to landmarks like the Capitol Records building and the Pantages Theater.