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This guy spent 27 years in the woods and was arrested for about 1000 robberies.

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The man who held five firefighters hostage in Suwanee, Ga. earlier on Wednesday has been shot and killed by SWAT members. Four hostages are slightly injured, but authorities say they should be OK.

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The prospect of a North Korean missile test is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang calmly prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power.

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A 20-year-old student who told police he had fantasized for years about stabbing people to death went on a rampage with a knife at a suburban Houston community college, hurting more than a dozen people, authorities said.

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Is photographing license plates going to far?

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Thanks to a mugshot from three years ago, Meagan Simmons became an internet star late last week.

A Reddit user noticed that Simmons, then named Meagan McCullough, looked unusually good in the booking photo that was taken after her arrest for reckless driving in 2010. So they made it into an advice animal meme, with the caption "Wanted...in 50 states."

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As many as 14 people were injured, some of them stabbed, on Tuesday morning at Lone Star College, just outside Houston. Police have arrested one suspect.

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Officials at Sanford Health, based in South Dakota, are having discussions with officials at Fairview Health Services, based in Minnesota, about a merger

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Usually when Facebook draws the ire of the collective internet it's because it's made a change to its format. But this time it's one of the social network giant's TV commercials that has the Web firing off a barrage of negative comments.

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Job growth appeared to slow drastically during March, as employers added 88,000 new jobs, down from 268,000 in February. The unemployment rate went down a tick, from 7.7 percent to 7.6, but that was due to a reduction in the labor force.

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