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ORLANDO, Fla. – The story of a Florida mom accused of killing her 2-year-old girl has become a soap opera of sorts over the last year, with plot twists and turns. There are the grandparents, George and Cindy. The phantom baby sitter. The bounty hunter. The meter reader. At the …

At just age 9, Dzhambik Khatokhov weighs a staggering 324 pounds and wears man-sized shoes. Believed to be the unofficial world’s fattest child, Russian Dzhambik — known as Jambik — dreams of winning gold for his country at the Olympics. At 5-feet, 2-inches tall, the boy towers over (and wider …

VIENNA – The International Mozarteum Foundation said Thursday it has discovered two more works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The previously unknown works are piano pieces composed by a young Mozart, the Salzburg-based foundation said in a brief e-mail statement. The Web site of the organization said its department of …

PITTSBURGH – From a Pennsylvania hospital bed, Jeff Kepner says he is looking forward to being able to feel his wife’s and his daughter’s hands when he holds them. The 57-year-old Augusta, Ga., man is the nation’s first double hand transplant patient. He held hands with his wife Valarie on …

WASHINGTON – With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States. North Korea is not known to have …

TOKYO – Ten climbers have died as strong winds and rain struck two mountains in northern Japan, police said Friday. Nine died while climbing Mount Tomuraushi on Hokkaido, Japan’s main northern island, said Hokkaido police spokesman Masafumi Yamasaki. Eight of them were part of an 18-member group tour, while the …

HILLSBORO, Ore. – A scary situation turned into a strange one when a bomb squad determined that a suspicious package left outside the Washington County Sheriff’s Office contained a prosthetic leg. Sheriff’s Sgt. Vance Stimler said deputies called the Portland bomb squad out to Hillsboro Sunday afternoon after noticing a …

A Boston University medical student was arrested Monday in the shooting death in a hotel of a masseuse and the robbery of another woman who both advertised their services on Craigslist. Phil Markoff, 22, was arrested during a traffic stop Monday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Walpole, south of Boston, …

WASHINGTON – The H1N1 vaccinations began Monday with squirts up the noses of health care workers in Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee — it just tickled, shrugged one — as the government opened a massive effort to immunize over half the nation in a few months. But don’t try to line …

BERLIN – A revealing photograph of former model and France’s current first lady Carla Bruni was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin auction house. The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer …