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Most popular news on 17 September 2009 |
Actor Henry Gibson dead at 73, spokesman says
Actor Henry Gibson, who played roles ranging from loopy poets to vengeful Illinois Nazis and cranky judges during a 40-year film and television career, has died at age 73, his representatives said Wednesday.
Folk singer Mary Travers dead at 72
Mary Travers of 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died, according to her publicist. She was 72.
Hofstra student recants gang rape allegations
Charges have been dropped against four men accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University after the woman recanted her allegations, prosecutors said.
Police: Bones found on Garrido property
Investigators have found bones on the property where kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido lived for 18 years with Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters, police said Wednesday.
Kate Major 'despises' Jon Gosselin
For a house once full of love and children, there sure seems to be a lot of hate going on with the Gosselins.
Yale student strangled, medical examiner's office says
Yale University graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, was strangled, a spokesman for the Connecticut medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
Tooth helps restore desperate woman's sight
Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron "Kay" Thornton to suicide.
FBI: Beating at Cracker Barrel may be hate crime
The FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime an incident in which a woman was beaten to the ground in front of her child at the entrance to a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow, Georgia, south of Atlanta.
First rocky planet found outside solar system
Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday.
U.S. government sets up online 'app store'
The Obama administration has unveiled a government "app store" designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing.
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