Body found in Missouri lake linked to missing Kansas teen
Police say the body recovered at a Grandview lake is believed to be 18 year old Kelsey Smith, disappeared four days earlier after a possible abduction from a department store parking lot. Investigators traced two cell phone signals near the Target store as they search woods for clues and a videotaped man seen entering and leaving the store remains a person of interest.
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Ponce
John Douglass
Grandview
Kelsey Smith
Smith
Target
Kansas City
Douglass
Costa Rica Breaks Ties With Taiwan for China
President Oscar Arias announced Costa Rica ends diplomatic relations with Taiwan after nearly six decades and forges ties with China to boost investment. He cited strengthening commercial links and China’s rising global role as key reasons.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Taiwan
Oscar Arias
China
Arias
United States
81-Year-Old Woman Found Living With 120 Rats in Los Angeles
Authorities removed about 120 rats 25 rabbits six parakeets a dog a quail and a cockatiel from a Wilmington area home where the 81-year-old woman appeared disoriented and had open wounds from animal bites. She was treated at a hospital and had no food in the residence.
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Los Angeles
Annette Ramirez
Animal Services Department
Animal Control
Wilmington
Oman hit by Cyclone Gonu threatens oil routes
Cyclone Gonu battered Oman's coast bringing fierce winds and heavy rains forcing thousands from homes and shutting oil installations in Muscat and Sohar. Tanker operations halted. Fujairah in the UAE suspended refueling and ship-to-ship transfers.
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Muscat
Oman
Gonu
Middle East
U.S
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Nasser bin Khamis al- Jashimi
Ministry of Oil and Gas
Sohar
Dirk Jan de Vink
Fujairah
United Arab Emirates
Chavez Says U S Suffered Great Defeat Over Venezuela Sanction Move
President Hugo Chavez declared a humiliating defeat for the United States after the Organization of American States declined to investigate Venezuela’s removal of Radio Caracas Television. He opened a news conference with footage of a debate between his foreign minister and U S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Hugo Chavez
United States
Venezuela
Chavez
U.S
Condoleezza Rice
Organization of American States
Panama
OAS
Radio Caracas
Washington
Girl missing year found locked in hidden room
Bloomfield police found a 15 year old girl, pale but alive, locked in a tiny room under a staircase in a West Hartford home while serving warrants for DNA evidence. The girl disappeared last June and had previously run away from home, authorities said.
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Bloomfield
West Hartford
Jeffrey Blatter
Prehistoric Alps Hunter Oetzi Died From Arrow Wound
Scientists say the 5,000 year old Alpine hunter Oetzi died from an arrow wound. Swiss and Italian researchers used new medical scanners on his frozen remains to find an arrow tearing an artery under the left collar bone, causing massive bleeding, shock, and a heart attack.
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Oetzi
Alps
Switzerland
Italy
Journal of Archaeological Science
Cemetery caretakers blame critters for flag thefts at veterans graves
Neenah Wisconsin cemetery staff report about 25 U S flags missing from veterans graves around Memorial Day. Foreman Mark Alberts calls it a solid conclusion that critters steal the flags, noting dowels stayed intact. Past incidents include squirrels in Oshkosh and Eau Claire, with flags found in a squirrel nest.
Two NATO Soldiers Killed as Afghan Violence Widens
In Afghanistan two more NATO soldiers died amid ongoing violence. June militants deaths rose to 200. A female radio owner was shot in the north, the second female reporter killed in a week. U.S.-led forces and Afghan troops, aided by airstrikes, killed two militants and detained 19. Military activity intensifies, threatening stability more than five years after the invasion.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
NATO
Osamia bin Laden
Forest Service Drafts Prairie Dog Control Plan
The U S Forest Service released a draft environmental impact statement outlining five options to curtail prairie dog populations on grasslands through poisoning and other methods. Conservation groups warn the plan could destroy prairie dog colonies and threaten black footed ferrets, while local ranchers push for more poisoning to protect grazing land. The document omits a preferred option, but all choices include some poisoning.
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U.S. Forest Service
Sunni militants say cease-fire reached with al-Qaida in Iraq
The Islamic Army in Iraq claims a cease-fire with al-Qaida in Iraq, saying armed acts and provocations are banned. Spokesman Ibrahim al-Shimmari told Al-Jazeera the armistice began at dawn on Wednesday after clashes in Amariyah.
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al- Qaida
Iraq
Islamic Army
al-Qaida
Baghdad
Amariyah
Ibrahim al-Shimmari
Al-Jazeera Television
Sierra wildfire containment improves as residents return
Cooler temps and calmer winds aided firefighters battling a Sierra blaze near Coleville. More than 200 residents were allowed to return home as reinforcements joined the effort. About 1,400 acres burned with two outbuildings destroyed. no homes were lost and containment stood at about 25 percent at midday.
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Coleville
Calif
Sierra
Mark Struble
Fertility rate in Japan rises for first time in six years
Japan's fertility rate edged up to 1.32 children per woman in 2006 from 1.26 in 2005, the Health Ministry said. Officials caution one year does not indicate a turnaround and will monitor births and marriages in coming years.
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Japan
Health Ministry
Emi Sato
Fire at firefighter's parents home jeopardizes wedding night
Garrett Foster, 20, rushed to his wedding rehearsal when a fire broke out at his parents' two story home in Tootle Washington. A neighbor, Ron Smith, forced entry and used a garden hose to save the house before firefighters arrived, keeping a total loss from becoming a disaster.
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Garrett Foster
Washington
Ron Smith
Foster
Maribeth Foster
Smith
Moscow cosmonauts finish spacewalk ahead of schedule
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov spent 5 hours 37 minutes outside the International Space Station. They laid Ethernet cable for a local-area network linking the Russian Zarya module to the American section, set up Russian bio-risk containers, and installed a dozen aluminum debris shields on the station to guard the Russian segment.
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International Space Station
Fyodor Yurchikhin
Oleg Kotov
Orbiting Lab
Immigration overhaul withstands Senate test on family ties
The Senate defeated a Menendez bid to prioritize family reunification over skilled worker needs in a plan to legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Amendments on deportation risk and criminal bar provisions split party lines as McCain supported the bill while Kennedy and Obama backed the Democratic alternative.
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Washington
U.S
Robert Menendez
Dn.j
U.S. Im
John Cornyn
Texas
Cornyn
John McCain
R-Ariz
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
McCain
Joseph Biden
Delaware
Hillary Rodham Clinton
New York
Christopher Dodd
Connecticut
Barack Obama
Illinois
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