A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 53 people in the latest sign of a power struggle between rival Muslim sects that has escalated since the American military withdrawal.
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JOE KAY
12/10/11 12:57 PM
Xavier center Kenny Frease used a white cloth to soak up the blood streaming from a gash below his eye. Coaches from both teams bear-hugged their players and tried to yank them away from the bedlam.
The latest crosstown shootout got out of control Saturday and ended in bedlam, a few seconds early. The repercussions haven't even started.
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ERIC TUCKER
12/08/11 11:59 AM
A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
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DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
11/04/11 1:49 PM
Aaron Maybin is still unsure why things went so wrong in Buffalo.
Lots was expected from the Bills' 2009 first-round draft pick, who took his reputation as a pass-rushing presence with him to Buffalo along with an intimidating nickname that promised excitement: "Mayhem."
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A week after violence inside and outside Candlestick Park overshadowed the 49ers-Raiders preseason exhibition game, fans settled down Saturday but were treated to a 30-7 drubbing at the hands of the Houston Texans.
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Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who suffered brain damage in a beating following a baseball game in Los Angeles in March, has taken "two steps back" over the weekend after taking "three steps forward" last week, according to a statement released by his family Monday.Last week, officials at San Francisco General Hospital said Stow was showing significant improvement after undergoing a third round of surgery on Aug. 10.
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In response to a spate of shootings in a gritty part of The City that includes the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, police have stepped up patrols and deployed more gang task force officers.
Since late May, there have been at least five shootings — four of which police say are gang-related — along or near the Market and Sixth street corridors, with bystanders sometimes caught in the crossfire.
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Protests in Yemen have grown increasingly deadly, leaving five people dead in clashes Wednesday in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to reports from the region.
Despite attempts by the Gulf States to quell the violence and negotiate a solution between opposition members and President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is refusing to step down from power, the violence did not subside.
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