For six months, Bruce Pardo plotted a bloody attack on his ex-wife and her family. Police say he even added his mother and his ex-wife's divorce attorney to the hit list but killed himself before he could complete the task.

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Scientists are closely monitoring more than 250 small earthquakes that rattled Yellowstone National Park over the last several days, just in case it was "something precursory".

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Hurricane Katrina knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the catastrophic natural disaster.

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Her daughter, Bristol, 18, gave birth to a seven-pound, four-ounce son, People.com reports. Bristol and the baby's father say they plan to marry.

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A rash of store closings, which some experts predict will be the most in 35 years, is likely to cut across areas from electronics to apparel, shrinking the industry and leading to fewer niche players and suppliers.

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The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said that they suspect the woman "chose an unfortunate ending to her life" and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico's coast on Christmas night.

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The ultra-close press attention given presidents-elect -- and presidents -- is tough to get used to, as Barack Obama is learning.

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A defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday named a black political trailblazer to Barack Obama's Senate seat, a surprise move that put the governor's opponents in the uncomfortable position of trying to block his choice.

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A Long Island teenager has earned all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America. It's an accomplishment the local arm of the organization calls "an almost unheard-of feat." Oceanside resident Shawn Goldsmith earned his final badge _ for bugling _ in time for his 18th birthday in November. He far surpassed the 21 badges required to achieve the elite rank of Eagle Scout.

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Seat restraints, pressure suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship lost pressure and broke apart, killing all seven astronauts, a new NASA report says.

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The father of an 11-year-old girl who died, likely of hypothermia, after trying to walk 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day has been charged with second-degree murder and felony injury to a child.

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