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Philadelphia Neighborhood Mourns Five Kids

PHILADELPHIA – Beatrice Johnston recalled the three young siblings who lived nearby as the sort who gleefully ran around the neighborhood and splashed about in a small pool on the sidewalk in front of their home. On Sunday, she watched in horror as their house became engulfed in black smoke …

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Stocks Flat Amid Warnings, Mergers

NEW YORK – Stocks ended narrowly mixed Tuesday amid a slew of profit warnings from companies like Nucor, Hot Topic and Biomet, while investors uneasily eyed oil prices that hovered at the $59 per barrel level. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) fell 9.44, or 0.09 percent, to 10,599.67. The …

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PETA Workers Charged With Animal Cruelty

AHOSKIE, N.C. – Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (search) have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said. Investigators staked out the bin after discovering that dead animals had been dumped there every Wednesday …

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