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• Stepbrother charged in N.Y. girl's death
FULTON, N.Y. - A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled with garbage and more than 100 cats, police said. Alan Jones, 27 ...
• N.J. vows to 'race to the sea' for wind power
Garden State Offshore Energy won a license to build a wind farm off New Jersey and says this illustration is indicative of what turbines would look like off the coast at various distances. The GSOE plan is to build turbines 16-20 miles offshore ...
• What I learned at ‘town hall’ campaign events
McCain drew more than a thousand people to a question-and-answer session meeting in Salem, N.H., the Sunday before the New Hampshire primary. He fielded one question from a man who said “a lot of us independents are teetering right now ...
• Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops
... and another Iranian leader warning of unspecified consequences throughout the region. American and Iraqi negotiators have been working for months to hammer out an agreement governing the operations of U.S. forces in this country after the current U.N ...
• Attacks on humanitarian workers alarm U.N.
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that United Nations staff and humanitarian field workers are being deliberately targeted for attack by extremists and armed groups at an alarming rate. In a report to the U.N. General ...