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NFL Draft Winners and Losers: Jim Harbaugh blends old and new ways in 1st Chargers draft
When you're away from the NFL for nine years, the game can pass you by quickly. Nine years is a couple of NFL lifetimes.
Jim Harbaugh is still stuck in his ways a bit, but he showed in the first two days of the NFL Draft that he can also adapt.
The Los Angeles Chargers came into the NFL
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Powerful tornadoes tear across Nebraska and Iowa as weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage
Devastating tornadoes are tearing across parts of eastern Nebraska and Iowa on Friday as a multiday severe thunderstorm event ramped up in the central United States, injuring at least three people.
Storms began in parts of the Plains and South early Friday afternoon. The National Weather Service had received ...
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Watch: Tornado rips across highway in Nebraska
The tornado was pictured crossing Interstate 80, northeast of Lincoln - BRYCE SHELTON A storm chaser in Nebraska has captured the moment a massive tornado ripped across a highway on
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Decades after finding an abandoned baby, officer makes remarkable discovery
South Bend, Indiana — Gene Eyster, a retired police lieutenant, cannot drive past one specific apartment complex here without reliving that strange day 24 years ago.
"That was one of the strangest calls I think I've ever had: 'We have a found baby in a box,'" Eyster, a 47-year veteran of the department, told CBS News. "You always wonder, what
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After a man's wife was reported missing, authorities uncovered a dark secret from his past
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel.
In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a murder authorities weren’t even aware of until they began investigating Fran’s disappearance.
Fran’s body has never been found, but prosecutors in New Jersey
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Kristi Noem, a Trump VP contender, defends killing dog on family farm
By Tim Reid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kristi Noem, a contender to become Republican Donald Trump'svice presidential running mate, defended herself on Friday against Democratic attacks over her account of shooting a dog on her family farm.
Noem, the governor of South Dakota, describes killing an "untrainable" dog called Cricket which she "hated" in an
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More than 150 people in West Virginia exposed to measles: Health officials
About 152 people across 30 counties in West Virginia have been exposed to measles, state health officials said Friday.
Earlier this week, the first confirmed case of measles in the state since 2009 was identified, according to the West
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Many Americans retire far earlier than expected — and not by choice
American workers by and large believe they'll retire at 65, the nation's traditional retirement age. But real life often gets in the way of those plans, with new research finding that the majority actually step back from work far earlier. And for many, it's not by choice.
The median retirement age for Americans is actually 62, meaning that the typical worker is
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Israel bombed areas it told Palestinians were safe, NBC News investigation shows
TEL AVIV — An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones.
The attacks took place from January to April, as Israel’s military bombarded
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A plant that’s everywhere is fueling a growing risk of wildfire disaster
A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States.
Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the right weather conditions is like gasoline for wildfires: All it
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