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Japan Slowly Recovers, Mourns Dead [VIDEO]

Mar 22nd 2011 – 10:06AM
Mark Baker, AP

Mark Baker, AP

Cause of Knut the Celebrity Polar Bear's Death Sought [VIDEO]

Mar 21st 2011 – 2:49PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

Pa. Widow Builds Vault, Could Get Corpses Back

Jan 4th 2011 – 8:30AM
AP

AP

WYALUSING, Pa. -- It looks like Jean Stevens will be reunited with the two people she loved so much that she wanted them to keep her company after they died. The 91-year-old widow who lived with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister -- until authorities found out and took them away -- is hopeful they'll be...

2 Firefighters Die in Chicago Blaze; at Least 17 Injured

By Mara GayDec 22nd 2010 – 12:51PM
CNN

CNN

Two firefighters died trying to fight a blaze in an abandoned Chicago building today and at least 17 others were seriously injured despite frantic rescue efforts by nearly 100 fellow firefighters who rushed to the scene. Four firefighters were trapped after a wall collapsed in the burning laundry building on the city's...

Haunted House? 'Ghost Buster Gals' at Your Service

By Monica GarskeOct 30th 2010 – 3:15PM
Courtesy of Ronnie Rennae Foster

Courtesy of Ronnie Rennae Foster

(Oct. 30) -- If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Or maybe two ladies known as "The Ghost Buster Gals." Since 2001, Washington state friends Ronnie Rennae Foster and Laura Lee Mistycah have been in business as The Ghost Buster Gals, offering their expert "fast, friendly...

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