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Police: Park gunman may have fled to area to hide (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept., Benjamin Colton Barnes, is shown. Officials said Barnes is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012 in Washington State. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Dept.)AP – The Iraq War veteran being sought in the slaying of a Mount Rainier National park ranger may have headed to the remote wilderness area to “hide out” after an earlier shooting near Seattle, authorities said Monday.


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Rochester, N.Y. area teen charged with setting fire to home, killing father, 2 brothers

An upstate New York teen doused his two-story family home in gasoline and set it on fire early Wednesday morning, killing his adoptive father and two adoptive brothers, according to local reports.

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Marijuana fills foreclosed homes in Las Vegas area 

Houses emptied by foreclosure are filling up again in Las Vegas – with marijuana.

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Recovery, mystery in pair of LA area crashes (AP)

Two cars at the bottom of a remote mountain are recovered in Castaic, Calif., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 .    David Lavau, whose car had plunged 200 feet off a remote mountain road, was found yesterday by his three adult children, who had enlisted the help of a missing persons detective. Lavau suffered multiple rib fractures, a broken arm and multiple fractures in his back.  While he was being rescued, another vehicle was found nearby, its driver dead. Authorities don't know if that vehicle was involved in a collision with Lavau's car, or if it was a separate accident. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)AP – The family of 88-year-old Melvin Gelfand was beginning to think they would never find him, whether dead or alive.


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Libyan fighters move on Gadhafi area (AP)

A former rebel fighter sits in his vehicle moments before heading to the frontline in Bani Walid, at a checkpoint in Wadi Dinar, Libya, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Libyan fighters are signing up for a final assault on one of the last remaining bastions of Moammar Gadhafi. The volunteers are pouring in by the dozens, coming in pickup trucks from cities as far as Tripoli and Tobruk, as a deadline expired on Saturday for the pro-Gadhafi loyalists holed up inside the town of Bani Walid to surrender. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP – Libyan revolutionary forces faced fierce resistance as they streamed into one of the remaining bastions of support for Moammar Gadhafi on Friday, while the Turkish prime minister met with the country’s new rulers in the capital Tripoli.


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Irene slightly weaker; warning area extends to NJ (AP)

An image provided by NOAA is an Aug. 26, 2011 view of Hurricane Irene made by the GOES-east satellite.  The hurricane is projected to follow a path up the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine and into Canada. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP – Hurricane Irene has weakened slightly to a Category 2 storm as it approaches the East Coast, where a hurricane warning has been extended to New Jersey.


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Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast (AP)

Office workers gather on the sidewalk in downtown Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, moments after a 5.9 magnitude tremor shook the nation's capitol. The earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island, New York City and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where President Barack Obama is vacationing.


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