A Missouri man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges and four counts of first-degree assault, for the shooting deaths of three people at the First Congregational Church in Neosho, Missouri, on August 12, 2007. In a deal that was made, prosecutors agreed not to go for the death penalty if Eiken Elam Saimon pleaded guilty [...]

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 From Yahoo News Two American journalists were missing Thursday after they were reportedly detained by North Korea for ignoring warnings to stop shooting footage of the reclusive country. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore’s online media outlet Current TV, were seized Tuesday along the Chinese-North Korean border, according [...]

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WASHINGTON – The nation’s banks lost $32.1 billion in the final quarter of last year, even worse than the $26.2 billion originally reported last month, federal regulators said Friday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says “significant” revisions it received from banks also lowered the industry’s net income for all of last year to $10.2 billion [...]

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Eleven Michigan State University students, who were in Guatemala for their spring break working to help the country improve their tourism industry, were kidnapped at gunpoint. The kids were taking a three-hour tour of a rural section of the country, when several gunmen high-jacked the bus at gunpoint and ordered the bus driver to take [...]

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Eighth-grader, Kenny Offiaeli, from Timothy Edwards Middle School in South Windsor, Connecticut, collapsed and died while he was playing basketball yesterday afternoon. Superintendent of schools released a statement today saying, “The middle school is a somber place this morning.  I did not know the young man, but as I walked around the building this morning, [...]

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