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12Jan/120

Heather Locklear taken to Calif. hospital (AP)

FILE - In this June 12, 2009 file photo, Heather Locklear arrives at the Women in Film Crystal Lucy Awards in Los Angeles. Paramedics responded to Locklear’s home 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles for a medical emergency and transported a woman matching the actress’ description as a precautionary measure, authorities said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Authorities say Heather Locklear was taken to a Southern California hospital for precautionary reasons after receiving an emergency call from her home.

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11Jan/120

Assad vows victory, Syria accused of war crimes (Reuters)

Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Wednesday to vanquish "foreign conspirators" plotting to end his rule, and an Arab League observer quit Syria, accusing the authorities of committing war crimes.

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10Jan/120

Suicide attackers storm office in Afghan east, 7 killed (Reuters)

Reuters - Three suicide attackers stormed a government building in Afghanistan's volatile east on Tuesday, sparking a six-hour gun battle with security forces in which four government employees and three policemen were killed, authorities said.

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9Jan/120

Ark. woman stabbed granddaughter, killed self (AP)

In this photo taken on a cell phone, Christmas decorations are covered in soot outside the home of Janice Robbins near Conway, Ark. on Monday, Jan. 9 2012. Robbins, 63, who adopted her granddaughter after her son's death in Iraq, stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest, then set fire to their home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)AP - An Arkansas woman who adopted her granddaughter after her son's death in Iraq stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest and then set fire to their home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Monday.

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9Jan/120

U.S. moves toward legal action against Swiss bank: sources (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. authorities are moving toward taking legal action against Wegelin & Co, which could lead to an indictment of one of Switzerland's last pure private banks, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes, according to two persons with knowledge of the case.

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7Jan/120

Syria buries victims of contested bombing (Reuters)

People gather around damaged cars at the site of an explosion in the Maidan district of Damascus, January 6, 2012. REUTERS/SanaReuters - Crowds waving Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar al-Assad gathered Saturday to bury 26 people who the authorities said were killed by a suicide bomber at a busy Damascus crossroads.

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7Jan/120

Turkey’s custody laws draw flak after general held (Reuters)

Reuters - A day after the jailing of Turkey's former military chief, pending possible trial on accusations he tried to overthrow the government, newspaper columnists criticized the authorities for failing to reform sweeping pre-trial custody laws.

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5Jan/120

Father: Suspect in deadly Utah shootout had PTSD (AP)

This undated image provided by the Ogden Police Department on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2011 shows Officer Jared Francom who was killed Jan. 4, 2012 during a drug raid in Ogden, Utah. The shootout that erupted when police raided a Utah house on Wednesday also  wounded five other officers and the suspect, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ogden Police Department)AP - Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.

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5Jan/120

Cops use cadaver dog in search for missing SC boy (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Richland County Jail, shows Zinah Jennings. Columbia police are in a desperate search for Jennings 18-month-old son after she refused to tell them of his whereabouts. Jennings and her son were missing for a month before Jennings was found after she was in a traffic wreck on Christmas Eve.  (AP Photo/Richland County Jail)AP - Cadaver dogs looking for a South Carolina boy searched his mother's car and home as she sat in jail on charges of lying to police about what she did with her son, though authorities were not saying whether they found any evidence the toddler was dead.

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5Jan/120

Utah officer killed, 6 others wounded in shootout (AP)

Ogden Police Lt. Danielle Croyle, left,  weeps as she and fellow officers listen as Ogden Police Chief Wayne Tarwater talks about the events surrounding the shooting during  a  news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012  in Ogden, Utah.  A shootout erupted when police raided a Utah house on Wednesday evening, killing an officer and seriously wounding five others and the suspect, authorities said. The suspect, Matthew David Stewart, 37, has a limited criminal history. Stewart suffered injuries that are not life threatening, though it's unclear if he was shot. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Leah Hogsten)  DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TVAP - Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.

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