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Ex-Con Denied Bond in S.C. 'Dungeon' Rapes

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A local magistrate denied bond Saturday for a convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in an underground room behind his home. Kenneth G. Hinson was captured Friday evening after a four-day manhunt in the woods around his Darlington County neighborhood, about 20 …

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Philippine Market Explosion Kills Five

MANILA, Philippines – A bomb exploded Monday in a grocery store on a southern Philippine island considered an Al Qaeda stronghold, killing at least five people and wounding at least a dozen more, authorities said. One man was arrested, and police suspected the blast was the work of Abu Sayyaf, …

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Rocket with U.S., Russian, Brazilian Crew Lifts Off

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – A Russian Soyuz rocket streaked into the skies over the Central Asian steppe on Thursday, launching a U.S.-Russian-Brazilian crew on a mission to the international space station. Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams were to stay on board the station for about six months. Brazil’s first …

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