The plane took off from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and was heading to San Juan. The twin-engine plane slammed into the side of El Yunque mountain and was totally destroyed. A team of machete-wielding rescuers, whose progress was...
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Metro police have arrested a man suspected of robbing two convenience stores at knifepoint overnight. Robert Carr, 36, who is homeless, is being held on $163,000 bond. According to Metro police, a clerk at the Mapco at 4134 Gallatin Pike...
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A hillside school in Haiti, where 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the...
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Late-season Hurricane Paloma strengthened into a Category 3 storm as it lashed the Cayman Islands with wind and rain Friday, knocking down trees and signs. The storm was expected to lose some strength overnight before punching Cuba's midsection on Saturday,...
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President Preval later told the Associated Press news agency that he believed poor construction methods, including a failure to use reinforced steel, had been to blame for the building's collapse. Other buildings throughout Haiti were at a similar risk because...
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Haitian police say they have arrested the owner of a school that collapsed and killed at least 88. Police spokesman Garry Desrosier says Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse, was arrested Saturday and charged with...
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Defendant Franklin Duran faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy and illegal foreign agent charges. Prosecutors say Duran and others came to Miami last year to cover up the source and destination of a suitcase filled...
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Rasbert Turner, Star Writer Spanish Town Investigators in Spanish Town, St Catherine, were kept busy yesterday with the killing of two men in separate incidents by gunmen. About 6 p.m., a man known only as Pedigree was shot and killed...
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President-elect Barack Obama should lift the 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, the head of human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday. Obama has said he would grant Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit Cuba and send cash to their...
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LEGALLY Turning The Mockery Of Justice Gitmo Tides Just A Little ... Just Enough - Guantanamo, Cuba Actually, my main article and the short follow up I wrote already cover all that is substantively in need of exposure about the...
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