Lifesaving Kidney Matches via Facebook Highlighted
AP reports social media increasingly helps kidney matches. Damon Brown found a donor through a Seattle page and will receive a kidney from a friend. United Network for Organ Sharing notes more live donor pairs form online, with 2010 data showing 6,277 living donor transplants.
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Seattle
Facebook
Michigan
Florida
Craigslist
United States
United Network For
Damon Brown
Bethany
Theo
Julian
Damon Kidney
Sunnis consider leaving mixed Baghdad neigh borhoods amid sectarian tensions
Fear and political crisis push Sunnis like Ahmed al Azami to flee Shaab in Baghdad where Shi ite neighbors question his presence. The move signals renewed fears of segregation as Maliki led power struggles widen the Sunni Shiite divide after the American withdrawal.
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Ahmed al-Azami
Shaab
Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Saddam Hussein
Iran Navy tests advanced surface to air missile during Hormuz drill
Iran's navy test fired the Mehrab air defense missile in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz during a drill. Tehran also announced the first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod, inserted into Tehran's research reactor, amid ongoing Western sanctions and nuclear concerns.
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Strait of
Hormuz
U.N
United States
Atomic Energy Agency
Strait of Hormuz
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Gulf of Aden
U.S. Navy
Iranian Students News Agency
Sea of Oman
Mount Rainier Ranger Fatally Shot On New Year’s Day
A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was killed after a New Year’s Day traffic stop. The 368 square mile park was closed as dozens of officers searched for Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24 year old Iraq War veteran named a strong person of interest. Authorities recovered Barnes’s vehicle with weapons and body armor, and urged visitors to stay away from the park.
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Mount Rainier National Park
Wash
Washington State
Pierce County
Ed Troyer
Benjamin Colton Barnes
Margaret Anderson
Parks
Barnes
Troyer
Mountain Lodge Occupants Trapped as Rescue Crews Move In
About 100 people were holed up in lodges and cabins on the mountain kept out of danger as armored vehicles arrive to evacuate them. In Utah, rescuers jumped into a river to save three children after a car slid down an embankment and flipped over, with a rescuer breaking a window and cutting a seat belt to free them.
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Troyer
Salt Lake
New Year's lockout hits Denver Marriott guests
At the Denver Tech Center Marriott 628 rooms guests were unable to access their rooms from midnight to about 3 a.m. due to a key malfunction. Hotel officials and Denver police reported no serious injuries while some revelers fought or became ill in the hallways.
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Denver
Denver Marriott
Denver Tech Center
Jennifer Atkins
Kusa.tv
Family survives cold ordeal after two children rescued
Winward reported that the daughter and son were rushed to a Salt Lake City hospital and treated for hypothermia on Sunday. The father and a second girl escaped injuries.
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Salt Lake City
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