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MIAMI – A South Florida teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of killing and mutilating the cats of his neighbors — a disturbing string of deaths that has horrified residents and shaken animal lovers in two Miami-area communities. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, was taken into custody at a party, …

WASHINGTON – The military says Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher died when his fighter jet was shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War and was never captured or tortured. But Speicher’s family is unconvinced. The Navy pilot’s remains were identified earlier this year under about 18 inches of sand …

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. About 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk. Exelon Nuclear …

A solitary wooden coffin smothered with white roses resting fifty paces from the goalmouth in Niedersachsen stadium in Hannover today became the focus of a nation in tears, the Sunday Times reported. Ministers, a former Chancellor, the national soccer squad, 45,000 fans in the terraces and an estimated two million …

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia State Police say they believe a Virginia Tech student missing for nearly a month was hitchhiking after she left a Metallica concert. Police said Friday that witnesses saw a woman fitting the description of 20-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington on a bridge that crosses railroad tracks trying …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina woman to death. Multiple media outlets report a federal jury found Larry Whitfield not guilty of murder Friday …

General Motors Co. said Tuesday it will keep its European Opel unit and restructure it instead of selling a 55 percent stake to Canadian auto parts maker Magna International and its partner, Russian lender Sberbank. GM’s board of directors made the decision at a daylong meeting after determining that a …

WILMINGTON, Del. – Health officials say a Delaware Psychiatric Center patient has died after drinking cleaning fluid. Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf said Friday that the young man, who was expected to be discharged this week, died Aug. 27 at Wilmington Hospital. Landgraf says poison control told staff …

MOSCOW – The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies. Ramzan Kadyrov’s remark was probably the bluntest claim by a Russian official that insurgents in the restive North Caucasus have Western support. Western officials have dismissed …

The president went to the Bay State Sunday to prop up the fading campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley, who was once considered a shoo-in for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. But now, Republican challenger Scott Brown’s ahead in the polls, and the president is staking his credibility on the race. (BEGIN …