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Facebook Photo Oversharing May Alienate Your Friends

Take it easy with your Facebook pics, lest your real-life relationships suffer, a new British study suggests. Sharing too many photos on social media can damage those relationships, according to the...

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Trail of Blood Leads Police to Major Ecstasy Drug Bust

A trail of blood led San Francisco police detectives to make one of the biggest drug busts in the department's history, seizing more than $1.5 million worth of MDMA powder and pills. MDMA is the active...

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Man Who Wanted Family Killed Had "Last Stand Room"

A South Florida business owner accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill family members including his wife and young child, stockpiling guns and bomb-making materials and threatening the life of...

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Big Mergers

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to challenge the union of American Airlines and U.S. Airways, a business merger that would give birth to the world's largest airline. Check out these other big...

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Ten Year Anniversary of 2003 Northeast Blackout

This year marks the ten year anniversary of a massive electrical blackout labeled one the biggest blackouts in U.S. History. About 50 million people in the United States and Canada were left without...

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WATCH: Car Crashes Into Food Store

Authorities responded after a car crashed into a convenience store in Pembroke Pines Tuesday morning. Driver Maseloin Login, witness Evie Matech, the store owner named Ali and Al Diliello of the...

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Hannah Anderson: My Kidnapper "Deserved What He Got"

A San Diego County teenager who was kidnapped by a longtime family friend for almost one week shared her feelings on social media Tuesday saying her abductor deserved what he got. Hannah Anderson of...

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Student Uses "Stand Your Ground" To Get Conviction Tossed

With school about to start, thousands of kids in South Florida will soon be on school buses headed back to class. Now, it turns out Florida's controversial “Stand Your Ground” law can be used by kids...

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Tornado Touchdown Confirmed in New Jersey

The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in southern Ocean County, N.J., amid a series of powerful storms that battered the Jersey Shore as far north as Bergen County Tuesday morning....

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Inventor's High-Tech Bike Designed for Blind People Stolen

Brian Higgins is blind and has been tooling around on a fancy titanium bike equipped with special sensors that beep to tell him to watch out for a tree or post. Until now. The 61-year-old hobbyist...

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CVS Drops ID Requirements for Nail Polish Remover Purchases

After one week, CVS has dropped a new requirement for customers to show ID when purchasing nail polish remover in all but three states. The drug store chain's policy capped the amount of acetone...

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7-Foot-Long Boa Constrictor on the Loose

A boa constrictor named "Snakie" is on the loose in Swarthmore. But don't worry. That's 7 slithering feet of friendliness, according to the snake's owner, David Spiegel, a local veterinarian. "When...

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Driver in Deadly Boat Crash Appears in Court

The 35-year-old man who was piloting the boat in the Hudson River crash that killed a bride-to-be and her groom's best man appeared in court Wednesday to answer to charges of vehicular manslaughter and...

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Man Bit Off Chunk of Ear, Tried to Preserve it in Creamer: Cops

A South Florida man is being held on $15,000 bond after biting off a chunk of a friend's ear and trying to preserve it in coffee creamer, officials said. The altercation began when 26-year-old Kenneth...

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Gay Couple Attacked Leaving Manhattan Movie Theater

Two gay men who were holding hands as they left a movie theater in Chelsea were attacked by a group of men who hurled anti-gay slurs, and one was hurt so badly he needed seven stitches on his face....

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Photographer Killed in Cairo Remembered as Devoted Family Man

A British photographer with ties to the Washington area was killed Wednesday covering the protest camps in Cairo. Mick Deane, 61, worked for Sky News for 15 years, first in Washington, D.C., before...

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Missing ICE Agent Found Safe After Intense Search

An ICE agent who was reported missing, launching a major search in Hollywood on Wednesday night, was found safe, authorities said. The agent was apparently "picked up by a fellow (ICE) employee after...

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911 Calls Released as Israel Hernandez Is Laid to Rest

Miami Beach Police released the 911 transmissions recorded the night that 18-year-old Israel Hernandez died after officers used a Taser on him, as nearly 100 friends and family members said their final...

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911 Calls from East Haven Plane Crash Released

It was just before 11:30 a.m. Friday when people in East Haven, Conn., started calling 911 about a plane that had fallen from the sky. Caller: (very quiet and unintelligible) Dispatcher: How many, uh,...

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Jesse Jackson Jr. Gets 30 Months in Prison

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign cash on personal expenses, while his wife was sentenced to a year for tax fraud. The judge...

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