NEW YORK — A naked, distraught man fell to his death after a police officer shocked him with a Taser stun gun as he stood on a building ledge, authorities said.
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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. — Strong winds kicked up rough surf Thursday as an intense low-pressure system chugged toward the Southeast coast with wind gusts of up to 50 mph, knocking out power to thousands of homes in Virginia.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Ten children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska’s unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution.
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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — In Donnell Landtroop’s state-supplied cottage, mold grows on the walls and dried mud coats the floor, the foul remnants of Gustav, the second hurricane in three years to leave her family homeless.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal inspectors are blaming a fatal explosion at a West Virginia convenience store in part on a propane tank being located too close to the building.
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WASHINGTON — About 103,000 Chinese-made Razor scooters were recalled Thursday after four people received cuts that required tendon surgery.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — The president of an Iowa college says he’s sorry about an unfortunate and offensive typo in a school handbook.
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NEWBERG, Ore. — Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act that outraged students and school leaders alike.
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UNITED NATIONS — Zimbabwe’s president is only four Cabinet posts away from carrying out a power-sharing agreement with the opposition, he said in an interview ahead of his Thursday address to the U.N. General Assembly.
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CHICAGO — Authorities say a man arrested near Barack Obama’s Chicago home told police officers he wanted to speak with the presidential hopeful about getting a job.
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