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Video Preview 48 Hours double feature
Unraveling the lies of Jodi Arias Convicted of murder, "48 Hours" interviews were evidence in her trial. Will she be put to death? Maureen Maher ...
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Video Extra Vanessa Bulls talks to police
Four months after Kari Baker's death, police question Vanessa Bulls about her relationship with Baptist preacher Matt Baker. They believe she knows more than she's ...
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Video Extra Matt Baker talks to 48 Hours
In January 2010, Matt Baker was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to 65 years in prison. Nearly nine months later, correspondent Erin Moriarty interviewed him at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. His fourth interview with "48 Hours" is riddled with ...
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MLS Chicago 1 Real Salt Lake 1
Real Salt Lake . Trailing 1-0, the Fire stole a point when Amarikwa got control of a headed pass from Austin Berry and volleyed it home for the equalizer. Sean Johnson made eight saves for Chicago ...
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Chicago avoids elimination New York is not so fortunate
Both the Blackhawks and Rangers entered Saturday just one loss away from seeing their Stanley Cup dreams end. Chicago won in convincing fashion, while New York fell to ...
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Public Opinion Mobilized against American Monsanto
Washington, May 26 (Prensa Latina) Community activists and environmentalists in fifty U.S. cities protested against the Monsanto Corporation accused of harmful genetic manipulation in agricultural products. Organized by the civic movement March against Monsanto (MAM), the mobilization is expected this weekend to agglutinate an estimated 200,000 demonstrators in 40 countries, and thousands of ...
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A missing gunner plane and an enduring mystery
TA-OY, Laos -- Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west. The cargo plane-turned-gunship was on its way to Laos; its mission was top secret. Jeffords put the South China Sea ...
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Seattle Storm start season in Los Angeles vs. Sparks
With backcourt mainstay Sue Bird out this WNBA season after knee surgery, Tanisha Wright will have to play a leading role for the Storm. Seattle plays its season opener against Los Angeles on Sunday at Staples ...
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Obama transforms mission as military struggles to remake itself
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News In two major speeches, President Obama sent strong signals this week about what he envisions for the military in a post-Sept. 11 era, a new path which can be described in a word: ...
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L.A. stoplights synchronized to control traffic
LOS ANGELES It seems that the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control. Yes, gridlock still prevails and drivers' blood pressure still spikes as LA's traffic arteries seize up during every morning and afternoon rush hour. Yet, with the flip of a switch earlier this year, Los Angeles became a worldwide leader by synchronizing ...
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Video Extra Justice for Kari
When Kari Baker's death was ruled a suicide in April 2006, law enforcement thought the case was closed. And it might have been, if not for Kari's mother and a growing circle of family, friends, investigators, attorneys and others who were convinced Kari had been murdered by her husband, Baptist Preacher Matt Baker, and were determined to get justice no matter how long it would ...
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Video Tornado-ravaged community holds graduation ceremony
Five days after a deadly tornado ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, three high schools in the community took a break from the clean up to hold graduation ceremonies for their seniors, some of whom like 18-year-old Sawyer Tumblson lost their homes. Bigad Shaban ...
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Video 525 Cold start to summer season for Sandy-impacted shore towns Therapy dogs help victims in distress
Towns along the Jersey Shore hard hit by superstorm Sandy kicked off the summer season this Memorial Day weekend on a cold and wet note; and therapy dogs were at the Boston bombings and most recently when the Oklahoma tornado hit. Scientific evidence has proven that therapy dogs can effectively lower blood pressure and anxiety for victims of disasters and ...
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Teen Accused of Bomb Plot Modeled on Columbine
An Oregon high school student has been accused of plotting a school bomb attack "specifically modeled" after the Columbine shooting, prosecutors said today. The student at West Albany High School allegedly hid at least six bombs and bomb-making material in a secret compartment under the floor of his bedroom, Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said. Grant Acord, 17, ...
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Witnesses say 17 killed in attack by Maoist insurgents in India
Maoist insurgents abducted a leader of the Indian National Congress party and his son Saturday evening in an attack witnesses said left 17 people dead. The Indian Express reported 150-200 militants struck the party's convoy of about 20 vehicles on the Bastar-Sukma national highway in Jagdalpur district. State Congress President Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh Patel were kidnapped, ...
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Scouts plant American flags at Camarillo cemetery
DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Aidan Ruiz (center) receives a flag from his brother Devin as their father, Gabe, helps them place flags near the gravestones of veterans Saturday at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park. More than 100 members from four Boy Scout troops, four Cub Scout troops and three Girl Scout troops fanned out across cemetery armed with small flags to put on each ...
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Ore. teen accused of planning to attack school
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon high school student is being charged with attempted murder after the authorities say he planned to attack his high school with bombs.The student, 17-year-old Grant Acord, was taken to a juvenile jail Thursday night after police received a tip that the youth was making a bomb to blow up West Albany High School.Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said late ...
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Manchester City beat Chelsea and plant a flag at New Yorks Yankee stadium
Manchester City played the second of two exhibition matches on a brief post-season US tour, at a Yankee Stadium that may soon be home to regular Major League Soccer games. For sure, the day's main conversation, here as elsewhere, may have been on the all-German ascendancy of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, and the opening of a new front in Europe, but locally (and for New York, the ...
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IRS vs. America III
Now we learn that the current administration has used the IRS to intimidate conservative groups that have voiced their concerns regarding the growth of government and the direction our country is going and wanted to campaign for or donate to a candidate with a different vision in the 2012 ...
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IRS vs. America II
There is no place in a free democracy for such an intrusive, dictatorial and powerful sub-governmental agency as the IRS. The IRS is not an element of a government of the people, for the people and by the ...
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Truck load in Washington state bridge collapse believed taller than spans low point
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - The oversize load on a semi-trailer truck that struck a Washington state bridge was likely too tall for the lowest point of clearance on the structure, part of which collapsed after the collision, a federal safety official said on ...
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Okla. residents dilemma after tornadoes Stay or move
by Vanita Nair (CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - On Sunday, President Obama will be in Moore, Oklahoma to see the damage from Monday's devastating tornado. Funerals for two more children were held Saturday. Now families in Moore are asking a tough question again: whether to stay and rebuild -- or move ...
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Signs at Las Vegas Neon Museum shine again
LAS VEGAS The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. This Memorial Day weekend, the hulking metal come-ons are once again glinting and shimmering at night. The Neon Museum, where Sin City's most iconic signs go to retire, has begun aiming more than 100 multicolored ...
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Sandy-hit Jersey Shore off to slow start for first Memorial Day after superstorm
(CBS News) SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Seven months after superstorm Sandy ripped up boardwalks and washed a roller coaster into the ocean, summer is getting its unofficial kickoff this weekend on the Jersey Shore. The next three months are the time most businesses make most of their money in beach towns along a 127-mile stretch of the New Jersey coast. But they're still not catching many ...
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Video Shellfish company ready for first post-Sandy summer
A shellfish company in Long Beach Island, N.J. has worked hard to recover from superstorm Sandy's impact. Being ready for the summer season is important in a community whose economy centers around the summer season. Jim Axelrod ...
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