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Afghan police: US soldier shoots Afghan guard (AP)

Afghans walk over snow after a snow storm on a hill side in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. National Weather Center meteorologist Abdul Qadir Qadir says the heavy snows were beneficial for Afghanistan, which has been suffering from 12 years of drought. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP – An American soldier shot and killed an Afghan guard at a base in the country’s north, apparently because the American thought the guard was about to attack him, Afghan police said Sunday.


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Point guard woe D’Antoni’s downfall 

The Knicks were in free-fall, having lost nine of 10, before Detroit, the second-worst team in the NBA, showed up at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.

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VIDEO: LeBron leaps Bulls guard for dunk

They don’t make MVPs in Chicago like they used to. Or when do you remember seeing Michael Jordan miss two foul shots in the closing seconds of a game with a chance to win?

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Coast Guard to Italian captain: Go back aboard! (AP)

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, after running aground on the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Friday evening. Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship that grounded near a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing passengers and crew while the seas remain relatively calm. The search intensified as prosecutors prepared to question the captain, who is accused of causing the wreck that left at least six dead by making a maneuver that the Italian cruise operator said was 'unapproved and unauthorized.' (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP – “You go on board! Is that clear? Do you hear me?” the Coast Guard officer shouted as the captain of the grounded Costa Concordia sat safe in a life raft and frantic passengers struggled to escape after the ship rammed into a reef off the Tuscan coast.


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Coast guard shouts at capt to go back to help ship (AP)

A scuba diver recovers a body from the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Italian media say five bodies have been found aboard a cruise ship capsized off the coast of Tuscany, raising the official death toll to 11. Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks Friday evening and capsized. Rescuers exploded four holes in the hull of the ship earlier Tuesday to gain easier access to areas that had not yet been searched. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP – An Italian coast guard official vehemently demanded that the captain go back to his crippled cruise ship to oversee its evacuation, but the captain repeatedly resisted, according to a shocking audiotape made public Tuesday.


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Coast guard: 2 survivors found on stricken ship (AP)

AP – An Italian coast guard official says rescuers heard the shouts of of two survivors aboard a cruise liner that ran aground off Tuscany a day earlier and are looking for the man and the woman.

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National Guard called in to help search for missing Missouri baby

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the deployment Saturday of 25 members of the Citizen-Soldiers of the Missouri National Guard to Kansas City for one day to help search for the missing 11-month-old, who vanished without a trace Oct. 4.

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