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Cops offer $25,000 reward, say 'Don't think it's OK, because it ain't.'

The Florida man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a 21-year-old mother of two is going to jail. But outrage still surrounds the case of Denise Lee, whose frantic call to 911...

Search of Garrido home and neighbouring house relates to nine murders in San Francisco Bay area, say authoritiesPolice from Antioch, the town near San Francisco where Jaycee Dugard was held hostage for 18 years by a sex offender until her dramatic release last week, will meet tomorrow to discuss reopening more than 10 cases concerning murdered and missing women in the area.Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts, including kidnapping, rape and unlawful imprisonment, after they were discovered last Wednesday to have been hiding Dugard and the two children she had borne her attacker, in tents and sheds in their garden.Dugard had been missing since being snatched in 1991, when she was 11, outside her house in South Lake Tahoe, about 170 miles away.Detectives are now homing in on killings and missing persons reports in and around Antioch, in the suspicion that Garrido - known by neighbours as 'creepy Phil' - might have been involved in many more incidents

Hometown favorite George Hincapie sprinted hard the last 100 meters on rainy streets Sunday to win the USA Cycling Pro Road Race Championship.

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POLICE have launched a murder inquiry after finding the body of a nine-year-old girl in the cab of a grocery lorry, Northamptonshire Police said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For corporate america and Wall Street, the second quarter may be a tough act to follow.

Harare - The 75-year-old wife of a farmer on a smallholding in central Zimbabwe has been murdered in the fourth recent killing of whites on isolated holdings as violence on beleaguered white farms con...

JAMBALÓ, Colombia, Aug 28 (IPS) - One night in February 1988 in the native Nasa territory of Jambaló, in southwest Colombia, soldiers barged into Etelvina Zapata's home and snatched her 21-year-old son, barefoot and clad only in shorts, accusing him of working with the leftwing guerrillas.

Lines at polling stations have spilled out into streets as Japanese citizens showed up in droves to vote in a parliamentary election that is expected to yield a historic shift. Many analysts predict prime minister Taro Aso may lose office as Japan emerges from its worst recession since World War II.