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Monday, December 8, 2008

Teen gets college degree in just 2 years

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A teenager graduates from the University of Texas this weekend at 16, an age when most students have yet to receive their high school diplomas. Andrew Brisbin of Denton, Texas, entered North Central Texas College at 14 and transferred to the university a year later,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Simpson Gets Prison Term For Robbery

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- O.J. Simpson was sentenced to at least nine years in a Nevada prison Friday for holding up two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel. The 61-year-old former football star apologized tearfully, telling a judge he did not realize he was doing anything... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Rice urges Pakistani cooperation in probe

NEW DELHI, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in India Wednesday, urging Pakistan cooperate in the Indian probe of the bloody Mumbai attacks. While Rice was in New Delhi to meet with Indian leaders, U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Sources: Burress shooting to prompt arrest

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- New York Giants star Plaxico Burress will soon be arrested and charged after apparently wounding himself with a gun, police sources say. Police sources said Burress, who allegedly shot himself in the leg this weekend while at a New York nightclub, likely will be arrested... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Kashmir groups eyed in Mumbai attacks

MUMBAI, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence sources say they're focusing on the Kashmir terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba as the likely force behind this week's attacks in Mumbai, India. Speaking anonymously, the spy officials said that while no definitive conclusions had been reached, early... Sign in to see full entry.

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