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Egyptians blame military for deadly soccer riot (AP)

Egyptians crowd a train station waiting for their friends and relatives' arrival from Port Said in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while others suffocated, trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones in the country's worst ever soccer violence. At least 74 people died and hundreds were injured after Wednesday's game in the seaside city of Port Said, when disgruntled fans of the home team, Al Masry, rushed the pitch, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed to intervene. A man, right, carries a poster with Arabic that reads, 'rest in peace, who's behind this? we are with those who lost their relatives.' (AP Photo)AP – A narrow stadium exit turned into a death trap. Crowds of Egyptian soccer fans fleeing supporters of the opposing team armed with knives, clubs and stones rushed into the corridor, only to be crushed against a locked gate, their rivals attacking from behind, survivors and witnesses said.


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Egypt’s army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot (AP)

Egyptian fans clash with riot police following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.  Some dozens of Egyptian soccer fans were killed Wednesday in violence following a soccer match in Port Said, when fans flooded the field seconds after a match against a rival team was over, Egypt's Health ministry said. (AP Photo)AP – Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country’s worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people, witnesses and health officials said Thursday.


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Fla. highway partly reopened after deadly pileup (AP)

Firemen hose down a commercial carrier truck on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Fla., after it was involved in a multi-vehicle wreck which killed at least nine people in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup on the highway, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP – Authorities have reopened the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 near Gainesville nearly 14 hours after a pileup in the pre-dawn darkness left at least 10 people dead.


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Arizona remembers deadly day with bells, tears (AP)

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, husband Mark Kelly and Nancy Barber, wife of Giffords' district director, Ron Barber, pause at the Davidson Canyon Gabe Zimmerman Trailhead overlooking Tucson, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. They're paying tribute to Zimmerman, who was killed almost one year ago during the Tucson shooting.  Zimmerman was the director of community outreach for U.S. Representative Giffords. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Cheryl Evans)AP – This time, in the supermarket parking lot, there were softly ringing bells breaking the morning silence instead of the terrible sounds of gunfire and sirens.


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Giffords, Tucson mark 1 year since deadly rampage (AP)

Ina Menzl, left, hugs her daughter, 4-year-old Rebecca Kraft, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz., outside the Safeway grocery store where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot one year ago during a shooting spree that left 6 dead and 13 wounded, including Giffords. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP – Bells rang out across Tucson on Sunday to mark exactly one year since a bloody morning when a gunman’s deadly rampage shook a community and shocked a nation.


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Father: Suspect in deadly Utah shootout had PTSD (AP)

This undated image provided by the Ogden Police Department on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2011 shows Officer Jared Francom who was killed Jan. 4, 2012 during a drug raid in Ogden, Utah. The shootout that erupted when police raided a Utah house on Wednesday also  wounded five other officers and the suspect, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ogden Police Department)AP – Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.


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Enfamil formula doesn’t have deadly bacteria, company says 

Glenview-based Mead Johnson Nutrition said Sunday that another batch of tests done on its Enfamil Premium Newborn powdered infant formula found no trace of the bacteria tied to the death of a Missouri baby.Preliminary hospital tests indicated 10-day-old Avery Cornett died Dec. 18 of a rare infection caused by bacteria known as Cronobacter sakazakii .

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