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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top prosecutor referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial Sunday on charges of inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office, the state news agency said.
The military ousted Mor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Michael Jackson, a trip to the doctor’s office sometimes wasn’t just paying a visit to a health care provider. It was paying a visit to a trusted friend.
A jury has been hearing for weeks about the pop superstar’s close relationshi...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration geared up for the biggest foreign policy vote since the Iraq war by arguing Sunday that new physical evidence shows the Syrian government used sarin gas in a deadly August attack. With its credibility on the line, the...

BAGHDAD — Deadly violence erupted at a contentious Iranian exile camp inside Iraq early Sunday, leaving international observers scrambling to determine the cause of the bloodshed and the number of casualties.
The dissidents alleged that more than 50 were...

LONDON — David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace over Watergate. But as the sessions drew to a close, Frost realized he still lacked som...

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance on Sunday after nearly three months in a hospital that became the focus of a global outpouring of concern, but authorities said the health of the former South African president remained critical and ...

Due to high rainfall this summer, the Horse Creek, the Myakka River and the Myakkahatchee creek, a tributary to the Myakka, have been close to flooding while the region’s drainage systems have been put to the test.
Labor Day weekend has seen a slight repr...

Dan Avenancio joined the Navy in 1976 as a teenage seaman, part of the flight deck crew, sweeping the decks of the carrier USS John F. Kennedy sailing off the Virginia coast as a training ship. He ended his 24-year Naval career in 2000 as maintenance offi...

Jan Tulk enjoys her time in the South County Recreation Center pool during morning water exercise class. The Punta Gorda pool also offers open pool time, lap swimming and other activities....

So a blonde goes shark tooth hunting and catches a fish ... nope, that’s not a joke. It happened.
Venice has been known as the “Shark Tooth Capital of the World,” and therefore I had to go a-huntin’ at Caspersen Beach.
I ventured out on a recent morning ...