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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The couple accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and keeping her hidden in their backyard for 18 years pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges on Friday as police searched their home for evidence related to murders of prostitutes in the 1990s.

The los angeles County coroner says Michael Jackson died of 'acute propofol intoxication'The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide, finding that he was poisoned by an overdose of surgical anaesthetic propofol. In a brief statement to news media today, the coroner's office said Jackson died of 'acute propofol intoxication'. Also contributing to his death were lorazepam and Valium.The widely anticipated finding could lead to criminal prosecution of one or more of the several physicians who treated Jackson toward the end of his life and who investigators believe provided Jackson with drugs.The coroner also found in his body the stimulant ephedrine and local anaesthetic lidocaine, reportedly used to mask the pain of the propofol injections. In the US, homicide can refer to murder or to negligent or accidental manslaughter, but the finding need not trigger criminal charges.In an affidavit filed in the death investigation, a Los Angeles detective said that J

People flock to the JFK library in Boston to remember Massachusetts senator Edward KennedyAs the tens of thousands of people snaked past the flag-shrouded coffin in the John F Kennedy Memorial Library, there was near total silence. Despite banks of camera crews and the odd celebrated dignitary, there was orderly calm among those who had come to pay their respects to the late senator Edward M Kennedy, the last of the most famous brothers in modern American history.And yet, moving patiently around the contours of the velvet rope, the immobile white-gloved military guard and the body of the man himself, few failed to be moved to tears. At the room's exit, family members intimately, tirelessly shook hands with all comers. 'Hi, I'm Kara, Ted's daughter'; 'Hello, thanks for coming'; 'Thank you'.Yesterday afternoon, crowds had lined the streets as a hearse carrying Kennedy's body made its slow 70-mile journey from the family home in Hyannisport through the heart of Boston. At the library, the

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Authorities investigating a man accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and keeping her in his backyard for 18 years searched his California home on Friday for evidence in the 1990s murders of prostitutes.

New York » Intel Corp. raised its third-quarter revenue forecast above Wall Street's expectations Friday, citing strong demand for its chips and giving another signal that business is improving for one of the world's biggest technology companies.

Several prostitutes killed in 1990s; Garrido was warned in 2006 that people weren't permitted to live outdoors

BOSTON (Reuters) - Cerberus Capital Management has been swamped with redemption requests with the Wall Street Journal reporting that investors are asking to pull out $5.5 billion or 71 percent of assets from its hedge funds.

Visitors stopped to leave flowers and balloons at the end of the street that leads to the Kennedy family's 6 acre compound. ...

The Australian wife of Derek Miles a retired British army colonel has been charged with his murder.

A Florida plumber was found guilty Friday of kidnapping and murdering a police detective's daughter at a trial in which his victim's voice filled the courtroom as her desperate 911 call was played to the jury.