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US team to aid Nigerian search for kidnapped girls

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending technical experts to aid the Nigerian government's search for nearly 300 teenage girls who were kidnapped...

Nigeria: Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnap girls

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the more than 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the...

Homesick: American pleads guilty in '84 Cuba jet hijacking

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An American who returned from Cuba after hijacking a jetliner to the communist island 30 years ago pleaded guilty...

Reports: Abducted girls forced to marry Nigerian rebels

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist...

230 girls abducted in Nigeria still missing

CHIBOK, Nigeria (AP) — A week after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women...

NC inmate charged in kidnapping of DA's father

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina inmate described as a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang faces a federal kidnapping charge after...

Infamous drug lord freed after conviction overturned in 1985 killing of DEA agent

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. (AP Photo/File) by Adriana Gomez LoconAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Nigerian extremist: Burn schools, kill teachers

This file image made available from Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2012, taken from video posted by Boko Haram sympathizers shows the leader of the radical Islamist sect Imam Abubakar Shekau. Shaking a finger while cradling an assault rifle, the bearded leader of Nigeria’s extremist Islamic sect Abubakar Shekau threaten in a video on Saturday July 13, 2013 to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denies his fighters are killing children. (AP Photo, FIle ) by Michelle FaulAssociated Press Writer LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Shaking a finger while cradling an assault rifle, the bearded leader of Nigeria's extremist Islamic sect threatens to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denies his fighters are killing children.

Prosecutor may seek death penalty in Cleveland case

An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, saying the man accused of raping and imprisoning three women in his home forced them to suffer miscarriages.

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