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CLEVELAND – Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the home of a sex offender are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said Monday. It could take days or weeks to identify the bodies using dental records or DNA mouth-swab samples …

KARACHI, Pakistan – A passenger train rammed into a cargo train outside of the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing 10 people including an infant, officials said. More than 30 people were injured, said police officer Muzaffar Shaikh. Aftab Memon, …

NAZRAN, Russia – A roadside bomb blast ripped through a police car in Russia’s violence-plagued southern Ingushetia province on Friday, killing three officers and wounding two others, authorities said. Five policemen were in the car hit by the explosive device near the village of Dattykh, provincial Interior Ministry spokeswoman Madina …

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane police on Thursday raided a medical marijuana store, shutting it down, arresting the owners and warning similar operations to close, too. Police said it was the first time in the state that medical marijuana distributors had been arrested on a charge of delivery of a controlled …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Fighting Mad Top House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee are chastising Secretary Janet Napolitano for skipping Wednesday’s hearing examining the attempted Christmas Day bombing. Pennsylvania’s Chris Carney said: “I am very dismayed that the secretary herself isn’t here. I mean it’s …

Something happened during Monday’s show. I heard a line from one of the communists that we played on the air that makes the point clearly about what we’ve been talking about here. I want to play it again: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JED BRANDT, COMMUNIST: We have to help bring this …

“There is no education like adversity.” — Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister twice during the 1800s. His simple words have eternal and profound meaning. We are judged by what we are able to conquer or overcome. World War II is a pristine example of this …

The list of new gadgets available to travelers grows longer each year. But however long that list is, it’s nothing compared to the list of new products parents are expected to buy year after year. Combine all those lists, add in products specially designed for traveling families, and that’s a …

So KFC has come up with a brand new sandwich that replaces the bun with two deep-fried chicken fillets. And it might be the greatest thing ever. It’s called the Double Down and it consists of three strips of bacon, Swiss and Pepper-Jack cheeses, packed between two plump breasts. It …

While mid-life is a very satisfying period for most men, for many others it brings on an existential crisis, resulting in a search for meaning in one’s life. Rather than coming out of left field, however, midlife crises are typically triggered by a significant adverse event in a man’s life, …