A person could know South Korea for a long time without knowing Wanju, an obscure county 112 miles south of Seoul. And, at least until recently, a person could know a lot about Wanju without ever hearing of Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in the mountain-ringed village of Sinchon. Now, however,...
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At first, it appeared to be a letter sent from the great beyond. Ninety-nine-year-old Muriel Drew popped open her mailbox at Cocheco Parks one day last month and found a letter from a friend who died about eight years ago. It was a heartfelt...
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The young man stood behind a desk in the middle of 3 Post Office Square’s cluttered, mid-renovation entryway, holding up a pair of black boxer-briefs and smiling hesitantly at the four women clutching a digital camera. The elevator doors across from him suddenly slid...
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Beer guzzling, belching, hideous dress sense – and that’s some of the nicer things the rest of the world said about British women. The nation’s females were lambasted when...
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Authorities arrested an Alabama fugitive after they say he traded a gun for tickets to the NASCAR race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Hampton police Officer Eric Hayes tells WSB-TV...
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The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has chosen not to prosecute Arizona Department of Corrections staff in the death of inmate Marcia Powell. Powell, 48, died May 20, 2009, after...
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A suburban Montreal mother is furious after she says police refused to help unlock her baby from her car in a sweltering parking garage. The woman said she accidentally...
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Police in Macon say a recruit is in stable condition after accidentally shooting herself in the leg at the police firearms range. Police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet says the recruit,...
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U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan are developing a strategy that would tolerate some corruption in the country but target the most corrosive abuses by more tightly regulating U.S. contracting...
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