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Missing Baby Lisa Irwin: Police Swarm Family Home

The parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin have allowed police to search their home for weeks hoping to locate their missing child, but on Wednesday the police carried out a search of a different kind. Armed with shovels, tools and machines they submitted a fully warranted search, but are yet to reveal their findings.

Gay Teen Suicides Launch Nationwide LGBT Risk Study

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Following a rash of teen suicides by LGBT youth, University of Arizona and New York University researchers are looking to identify causes for the high risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior, hoping to aid schools and families looking to combat teen bullying and LGBT feelings of alienation and abnormality.
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A sign posted on Interstate 70 warns drivers of animals loose in the area around Zanesville, Ohio October 19, 2011.

Ohio Cops Kill Escaped Animals; Two Still on the Loose (PHOTOS)

Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz and Columbus Zoo director emeritus Jack Hanna spoke at a press conference in Zanesville, Ohio, and said the missing bear and mountain lion have been put down, leaving only two animals still unaccounted for: a monkey and a wolf.
Inmate Gregory Powell is shown in this undated photograph released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to Reuters

'Onion Field Killer Denied Compassionate Release

A terminally ill prisoner whose 1963 murder of a policeman was chronicled in the book and film The Onion Field was denied compassionate release on Tuesday after he said he didn't want to be freed, officials said.
A Falls Township truck enters a property where exotic animals escaped in Zanesville, Ohio

Zanesville, Ohio: What happened there? [PHOTOS]

Dozens of large exotic animals including tigers, lions and bears were hunted down and shot after their owner opened their cages at his Ohio farm and then committed suicide, officials said on Wednesday.
Dead animals are seen on Terry Thompson's property where exotic animals were kept in Zanesville, Ohio

Freed tigers, lions and bears cause panic in Ohio

Dozens of exotic animals including tigers, lions and bears were let loose on Ohio farmland by their owner before he committed suicide, sparking a shoot-to-kill hunt in which 49 of the wild beasts, including 18 endangered Bengal tigers, were killed.
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NY policeman docked vacation for protest pepper spray

A New York City policeman has been docked more than a third of his vacation time after he used pepper spray on anti-Wall Street protesters corralled by police on a sidewalk during a rally against economic inequality.
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Dirty facility tied to deadly U.S. melons

Unsanitary conditions at a packing plant that handled fresh cantaloupes from a Colorado farm likely contributed to one of the deadliest listeria outbreaks in U.S. history, health regulators said on Wednesday.
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Queen Elizabeth Begins Her 16th Australia Visit

Queen Elizabeth II Wednesday arrived in Australia for a 10-day tour along with the Duke of Edinburgh. There have been speculations that this could be probably her last visit to the country.
Zinfandel grapes grow in a Napa Valley, California vineyard that supplies grapes to Frank Family Vineyards

Cool California Weather Keeps Winemakers Waiting

Hollywood executive and winery owner Frank Rich says the movie and wine businesses have plenty in common -- especially as this year's late California harvest has winemakers waiting in the wings for grapes to ripen.
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More Facebook Friends Linked to Bigger Brain Areas

Scientists have found a direct link between the number of friends a person has on Facebook and the size of certain brain regions, raising the possibility that using online social networks might change our brains.
Harold Camping

End of the World Two Days Away, Says Harold Camping

Harold Camping, 90, who had predicted that Judgment Day would come on May 21, said in an announcement on his Family Radio Network Web site that he stands by his present prediction that the end of the world will come on Oct. 21.
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Southwest flight diverted over unruly passenger

A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Kansas City from Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas on Tuesday after a passenger became unruly, authorities and the airline said.

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