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Parents charged in chained Michigan girl's death

CENTREVILLE, Mich. (AP) ---- Manslaughter and child-abuse charges have been filed against the father and stepmother of a teenager who died in a Michigan house fire while chained to her bed.

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Feud over horse race leads to 17 Guatemala deaths

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ---- Mexican and Guatemalan drug traffickers arguing about a horse race in a rural border town began a series of gunbattles in which 17 people died, police said Monday.

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Ex-mayoral aide pleads guilty in Detroit scandal

DETROIT (AP) ---- Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty.

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Alabama mayor arrested on bribery, fraud charges

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ---- The mayor of Alabama's largest city was arrested Monday on charges of steering millions of dollars of bond work to a friend in exchange for more than $230,000 in bribes to pay for an expensive wardrobe and flashy jewelry.

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Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet

WASHINGTON (AP) ---- Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.

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November 30th, 2008
Thief steals Thanksgiving dinner off woman's porch
`Four Christmases' finds $31.7M in holiday cheer
Space shuttle Endeavour finishes 16-day mission
Late workers, students get notes blaming N.Y. subway
9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city
First big snow of year cancels flights in Chicago
It's a Fraser fir for White House Christmas tree
Hundreds flee raided Dallas cockfight; 3 arrested
Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
150 whales die in stranding in Australia
Police: Houston is gun pipeline to Mexican cartels
Zimbabwe cholera toll rises as rainy season comes
Brazil rescuers resume search for flood victims
Eau de Penn State smells of flowers, not football
November 29th, 2008
Man steals idling car with infant inside
Fetus at Mich. plant puzzles police
End of the road for Oz festival
Chicago couple wait for first kiss at altar
Nev. man survives 36-hour ordeal in crashed Jeep
Fishermen find ancient boat in Black Sea
Thief steals Thanksgiving dinner off woman's porch
Gunmen kill 8 in Mexican border restaurant
Police seek Wal-Mart shoppers who trampled worker
Weather 'iffy' for Fla. shuttle landing
5 deer die jumping from overpass

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