Feb
10

Rome Journal: Itavia Flight 870 Ruling Adds Support to a Theory

Emiliano Grillotti/Associated PressA police officer near Rome guarded the reconstructed wreckage of Itavia Flight 870, in 2003. ROME — Itavia Flight 870 was entering the final leg of a routine domestic trip from Bologna, Italy, to Palermo, Sicily, one clear summer evening when it suddenly plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the small island of Ustica, killing all 81 people aboard. Mechanical...
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After early start, worst of flu season may be over

NEW YORK (AP) — The worst of the flu season appears to be over.The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu going around, U.S. health officials said Friday.The season started earlier than normal, first in the Southeast and then spreading. But now, by some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least four...
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Relive All the Grammy One-Liners & Tweets

01/04/2011 at 10:00 AM EST Vignette StoryServer 6.0 Sun Feb 10 23:50:50 2013 Vignette StoryServer 6.0 Thu Feb 07 12:29:52 2013 On Newsstands Now Kelly Clarkson: 'I Found Love At Last!' Kate's Out...
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Irvine shooting victims shared a love of basketball

Four days before her death, Monica Quan had news for her team. Quan, an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, held up her...
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Feb
09

New Focus in Mali Is Finding Militants Who Have Fled Into Mountains

Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesA fish market in Konna, Mali, that had been occupied by Islamist rebels. It was the seizure of Konna, in the Mopti region, that provoked France’s military intervention last month. DAKAR, Senegal — Just as Al Qaeda once sought refuge in the mountains of Tora Bora, the Islamist militants now on the run in Mali are hiding out in their own forbidding landscape, a rugged,...
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Tiger Woods & Lindsey Vonn Are 'Spending More Time' Together: Source

Buzz By Steve Helling 02/09/2013 at 06:00 PM EST Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn Mick Tsikas/Reuters/Landov; Luis Guerra/Ramey It was quite the gesture. After Lindsey Vonn suffered a devastating injury during the Alpine World Championships in Austria, she got a bit...
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Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of mistaken identity

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who...
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Feb
08

IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Feb. 9

After a failed attempt to set spending targets at a summit meeting in November and in a 24-hour marathon of talks this week, European leaders finally agreed late Friday to a common budget for the next seven years. The new budget, which is slightly smaller than its predecessor — the first decrease in the European Union’s history — reflects the climate of austerity across a Continent still struggling...
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Minka Kelly: 'I'm Not Worthy' of Acting with Oprah

By Jennifer Cress 02/08/2013 at 07:40 PM EST Minka Kelly as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Pacific Coast News It's intimidating enough to play Jackie O, but Minka Kelly felt even more pressure to perform when she found out who was joining the cast of her latest film,...
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Villaraigosa backs half-cent hike in sales tax

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday backed the half-cent sales tax hike on the March 5 ballot, which is being pushed...
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