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Timothy Mortimore’s Valentine’s Day may be less than romantic this year. Mortimore, 37, tells the UK’s Daily Mail he has been unable to lead a normal life since his bitter ex-girlfriend, Lee Amor, 23, bombarded him with 10,000 abusive phone and text messages in two months — an average of …

Investigators in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance indicated this week that they planned to clear the toddler’s parents as suspects and shelve the case, saying it might never be solved, according to the London Daily Mail. Detectives were said to be preparing the public for the possibility that the mystery of what …

WINNETKA, Calif. – Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton says there may be an additional victim in the burned house where a gunman, a SWAT officer and three other people were killed overnight. The standoff began about 9 p.m. Wednesday night in the San Fernando Valley. Nearly six hours later, …

METAIRIE, La. – Two suburban New Orleans teenagers were arrested Friday and booked with terrorizing for allegedly posting threats on the Internet site MySpace against a shopping mall that instituted a weekend curfew for teens. Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies said Joseph L. Madsen of Metairie and Cory Odenwald of River …

WASHINGTON – Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors. The FDA analyzed almost 200 studies of 11 anti-seizure drugs, some that have been on the market for decades. The …

WASHINGTON – Record illegal drug production in Afghanistan supplies the Taliban insurgency with money and arms and the U.S.-backed government must take direct, prompt action against poppy growers, a State Department report said Friday. Afghan farmers grew more poppies for opium in 2007 than ever before, the second year in …

PINEVILLE, Mo. – A 52-year-old woman will stand trial on a murder charge for allegedly failing to provide adequate medical treatment for her granddaughter, who died of malnutrition and dehydration in 2005. Linda Walsham, of Neosho, was bound over to McDonald County Circuit Court after waiving her preliminary hearing late …

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated detainees, the commander of Guantanamo’s prison camps has instituted language classes and a literacy program, plans humanities courses and wants to open communal areas for men now held in isolation 22 hours a day. In an …

PORTLAND, Maine – A powerful winter storm spread more than a half-foot of snow across parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, closing businesses and hundreds of schools and creating headaches for morning commuters. The Maine Legislature called off its session for the day and postponed public hearings. The National Weather …

NEWARK, N.J. – Union County authorities have charged a Colombian native with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a former Newark police officer who died after undergoing a plastic surgery procedure. Adriana Jaramillo, who authorities believe is 40 years old, was also charged Tuesday with practicing medicine without a license …