Detectives investigating the Dec. 2, 2008, death of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson in Rusk County found a wrench under the home where she had been living hours after Blaine Keith Milam asked his sister to find and retrieve some evidence there, witnesses testified. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Milam, 20, if he is convicted of capital murder for Amora’s beating death
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Witnesses: Blaine Milam asked sister to ‘retrieve evidence’ from under house
News Corp., owner of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, plunged the most in a year in Sydney trading after predicting a decline in fiscal fourth-quarter operating income.
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News Corp. Slides After Forecasting Earnings Decline (Update1)
In a bid to avoid the kind of layoffs that have devastated ABC News in recent weeks, CBS has again started talking to CNN about some kind of merger. CBS President Les Moonves initiated the latest round of bargaining, according to knowledgeable sources, when it became apparent that the network…
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CBS, CNN eyeing combined news ops
Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction Big Think “Whether it's Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism , they've all had their excesses, but nonetheless, there's something afoot in that kind of thinking, … Where Do Characters Come From
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Finding the Meaning of Life Through Fiction – Big Think
The record of Cardinal William J. Levada, whose Vatican office oversees abuse cases, shows that he often did not act as assertively as he could have.
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Cardinal Has a Mixed Record on Sexual Abuse Cases
News Corp’s quarterly profit beat expectations thanks to the 3-D blockbuster “Avatar” and strong cable networks, but the media conglomerate’s shares fell 4 percent after its outlook disappointed some investors.
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News Corp profit up on Avatar, but outlook disappoints
Maybe Ross Levinsohn had a worst-case scenario where nearly five years after the acquisition of MySpace for $580 million, top News Corp . execs told analysts MySpace was a work in progress building a foundation with a goal of being cash positive next year.
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News Corp. Execs Admit MySpace ‘Big Mistakes’ But Insist Trends Are Better
Tomorrow marks the start of the real campaign. The battle for the next election will begin within hours of the first constituencies being declared tomorrow night. Assuming the polls are anywhere near accurate, no party will win a decisive majority in tomorrow’s election
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We need a Tory-Lib Dem pact. Vote Labour
If David Cameron’s manifesto plans for 16-year-olds are successful, children will have to die. I like children, but I hope Mr Cameron is successful. I fear, though, thanks to a school trip I went on when I was 17, that he won’t be
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David Cameron’s plans mean children will die
One unadvertised consequence of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption will be a very slight delay in global climate change.
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We have the technology to cool our planet