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LEE KEATH
01/29/12 2:32 AM
Syrian troops battled army defectors in a string of towns in the mountains overlooking Damascus on Wednesday in a new assault to crush rebellious areas around the capital, activists said.
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RODRIQUE NGOWI
01/28/12 3:02 PM
Retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank on Saturday paid tribute to former Mayor Kevin H. White, describing him as a political pioneer who opened up the Boston political system to African-Americans, women and gays and pushed him to abandon plans to pursue an academic career and get into politics.
White, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003, died Friday at his Boston home. He was 82.
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RODRIQUE NGOWI
01/28/12 12:26 PM
Retiring Rep. Barney Frank says former Mayor Kevin White was a political pioneer who opened up the Boston political system to African-Americans, women and gays, and pushed Frank to abandon plans to pursue an academic career and get into politics.
White died Friday at his Boston home. He was 82.
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JIM SALTER
01/28/12 9:55 AM
Looking around at the tens of thousands of people waving American flags and cheering, Army Maj. Rich Radford was moved that so many braved a cold January wind Saturday in St. Louis to honor people like him: Iraq War veterans.
The parade, borne out of a simple conversation between two St. Louis friends a month ago, was the nation's first big welcome-home for veterans of the war since the last troops were withdrawn from Iraq in December.
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STAN LEHMAN
01/28/12 8:53 AM
Firefighters pulled more bodies from the rubble of three collapsed buildings in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least 17 as hopes faded for finding anyone alive almost three days after the disaster.
A Rio de Janeiro fire department official said the search for survivors would continue at least through Sunday, but the chances of finding anyone alive are "practically nonexistent."
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AYA BATRAWY
01/28/12 3:50 AM
The Arab League halted its observer mission in Syria on Saturday because of escalating violence that killed nearly 100 people the past three days, as pro-Assad forces battled dissident soldiers in a belt of suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus in the most intense fighting yet so close to the capital.
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SYLVIA WINGFIELD
01/27/12 7:49 PM
Former Mayor Kevin H. White, who led the city for 16 years including racially turbulent times in the 1970s, died Friday, a family spokesman said. He was 82.
White, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003, died peacefully at his Boston home surrounded by his family, spokesman and friend George Regan said.
"He was a man who built Boston into the world-class city it is today," said Regan, who called his loss "devastating."
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 6:20 PM
Efforts to raise awareness about concussion dangers are getting an boost from a collection of former National Football League players.
The five-month old Chicago Concussion Coalition announced on Friday they've enlisted and trained 10 former players to talk to young athletes, coaches and parents about causes and recognition and avoiding traumatic brain incidents.
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 3:53 PM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there will be no city parade for Iraq War veterans in the foreseeable future because of objections voiced by military officials.
The mayor said on his Friday appearance on WOR Radio officials in Washington "think a parade would be premature while we still have so many troops in harm's way around the world."
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 2:11 PM
A Nevada state psychiatrist testified Friday that despite two strokes, the embattled former physician-owner of Las Vegas outpatient clinics involved in a 2008 hepatitis outbreak is mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges.
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