WASHINGTON – Last year’s Sumatra tsunami (search) focused its death and destruction on the lands around the Indian Ocean, but the great wave traveled around the world and was recorded as far away as Peru and northeastern Canada. The wave rose a massive 30 feet as it destroyed communities around …
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ST. LOUIS – A lawsuit was filed Thursday against Eminem (search), his bus driver and tour bus company seeking unspecified damages for a July accident involving seven vehicles in western Missouri. The lawsuit was filed in St. Louis by Michigan truck driver Breck Wyngarden and his wife, Ascension “Tina” Wyngarden. …
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Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Deepak Kalpoe (search) has filed some sort of police complaint against Beth Holloway Twitty (search). He does not want Beth to show up at his work asking him questions about her daughter. Beth wants to do …
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NEW YORK – “Welcome Back, Kotter” isn’t just the show that started John Travolta’s (search) career. According to Inside TV magazine, Gabe Kotter is TV’s most memorable teacher. The Sweathogs’ favorite teacher, played by Gabe Kaplan (search), leads a list that also includes Edna Krabappel, the teacher on “The Simpsons” …
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NORTH PORT, Fla. – Authorities in Florida said Sunday that they have identified human remains found in a wooded area as that of a 21-year-old woman missing since Thursday. Denise Amber Lee was reported missing on Thursday after her husband came home to find their two young children alone. The …
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LOS ANGELES – It’s not easy being Al Reynolds these days. The soon-to-be ex-husband of Star Jones says he’s “been called a gigolo, a freeloader, unemployed, a sham and many other things that don’t bear repeating” since Jones filed for divorce in March. Reynolds posted a 485-word rant on MySpace …
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TOKYO – The fault line that caused this week’s devastating earthquake in China probably buckled in two stages, and the hardness of the terrain contributed to the wide reach of the damage, Japanese scientists said Thursday. The 7.9-magnitude quake on Monday struck in Sichuan province but rattled buildings as far …
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BUENOS AIRES – Two brothers, age 7 and 9, told psychiatrists they slowly, coldly tortured a 2-year-old girl to death — a revelation that has Argentines debating whether to do away with a law prohibiting the prosecution of minors for terrible crimes. Judge Marta Pascual said the children confessed to …
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – A Long Island town’s board members who had drawn the line at hanging clothes to dry outside are cutting residents some slack: It’s OK for them to use clotheslines now. The Southampton Town board has lifted a ban on clotheslines that had stood since 2002, when some …
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BAGHDAD – Shiite extremists launched several rockets toward the heavily fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sudden sandstorm and low visibility that gave cover from attack by U.S. aircraft. Some of the rockets fell short. One rocket hit the roof of a building housing the British Broadcasting …
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