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NEWS: STILL SEARCHING FOR BABY ZARA

It’s been three weeks since 21-year-old Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem allegedly abducted his daughter, 3-month-old Zara, from her maternal grandmother’s apartment in East Orange, New Jersey, and threw her over the Garden State Parkway bridge into the Raritan River.

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Whale shows at SeaWorld were canceled Thursday, and officials were re-evaluating safety procedures a day after a 12,000 pound killer whale grabbed a trainer’s ponytail, dragged her under water and killed her in front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium.

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Train hits, kills 3 girls in Florida

Authorities in Melbourne say three girls were struck and killed by a train on the Crane Creek trestle bridge.Melbourne fire and police departments received phone calls shortly before 6:30 p.m. reporting that there were youths who had been walking on the bridge, one reporting that one of the victims had fallen into the creek.Investigation revealed [...]

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There are some pretty sickening behavior going on in several New York morgues. Photographic evidence has revealed some city morgue workers haven’t all been taking their jobs seriously — instead workers spent time goofing off, posing with dead body parts for candid shots

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More than 111,000 people died in last week’s massive earthquake in Haiti, the government announced, even as it officially ended the search-and-rescue phase of its response to the disaster.

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Survivor’ contestant dies from cancer

Jennifer Lyon, who placed fourth on “Survivor: Palau” in 2005, died at her home in Oregon Tuesday night, PEOPLE has confirmed. She was 37.

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Relief slowly arrives as Haiti struggles

Rescuers raced against the clock Friday to free people trapped in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as aid workers tried to give out water and food to survivors.
There is not yet an official count of the dead from Tuesday’s magnitude-7.0 earthquake.

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Southern Indiana center Jeron Lewis died late Thursday after collapsing on the court during a game at Kentucky Wesleyan, school officials said.
Lewis, 21, fell under the basket with about 4 minutes left, said athletic department spokesman Ray Simmons. Lewis was rushed to Owensboro Medical Health Center, where he died just before 10 p.m.

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Rescue workers struggled to clear rubble and bodies Wednesday from the streets of Haiti’s “flattened” capital, where a government official said the death toll from Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake may exceed 100,000.

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13 Year Old College Student At Morehouse

As a 13-year-old, Lithonia resident Stephen Stafford II can usually be found sitting in front of the television playing video games or playing his drum set. But Stafford is no typical 13-year old – he’s a college student. The triple-major child prodigy is becoming a sensation at Morehouse College.

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- Richland Parish Sheriff Charles McDonald tells KNOE 8 News an off duty police officer went to another officer’s house this afternoon around 2:30 to visit.
The officer opened the door of his SUV to get out and a 3 year old boy ran to the truck, grabbed a gun in the side door and shot and killed his 3-year old cousin.
We’re [...]

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Rikers officer busted sleeping on job

Maybe the inmates really are running the asylum.
A correction officer has been disciplined for dozing on the job after a colleague snapped a picture of her asleep while on post at a Rikers Island infirmary, officials said yesterday

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A Queens street will be named after Sean Bell, the 23-year-old unarmed groom-to-be who was killed by NYPD in 2006 during the early morning hours of his wedding day. Killer cops shot Bell 50 times outside the Jamaica, Queens, strip club where he’d celebrated his bachelor party with friends.
Last year a judge acquitted three detectives [...]

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After more than three decades in prison, a Florida man was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974.
“I’m not angry,” James Bain, 54, told reporters after a brief hearing in Bartow, Florida.

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There was more laughter than tears on Friday as “Good Morning America” bid farewell to the anchor who has helmed the morning news show’s desk for the past ten years.

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