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  Massa 'massaged' and 'snorkled' subordinates while in Navy: report

  New allegations emerged Wednesday about former Democratic Congressman Eric Massa’s unwanted advances toward subordinates during his time in the Navy. In an article by Joshua Green in the Atlantic Monthly, several of Massa’s former shipmates said...  

• Calif. police seek gunmen after boy's 911 call

  NORWALK, Calif. — Detectives on Wednesday searched for three armed robbers who broke into a home and threatened the parents of a 7-year-old boy who...  
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  'Jihad Jane' to be arraigned on terror charges in Philadelphia next week

  Accused terror plotter Colleen LaRose, also known as "Jihad Jane," will be arraigned in a Philadelphia federal court next Thursday, March 18, Fox News reported Wednesday. LaRose has been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to...  
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  Actor Corey Haim found dead at 38 following accidental drug overdose

  Former '80s teen heartthrob Corey Haim, who later tried unsuccessfully to relaunch his career while spending most of his life battling drug addiction, died early today of an apparent drug overdose in Los Angeles. The LA coroner’s office said “The...  
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  Restaurant exposed by Oscar-winning doc 'The Cove' under investigation

  SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica sushi restaurant for serving illegal whale, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove.” U.S. attorney’s...  

• Big biz in pu$h to KO health fix

  WASHINGTON -- Big-business groups are launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to try to snuff out President Obama's last-ditch health-care push,...  
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  Photo creep jailed in Cindy kid extort

  A German creep was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday for trying to shake down supermodel Cindy Crawford by threatening to sell a picture of her bound-and-gagged 7-year-old daughter, Kaya. Edis Kayalar, 26, had confessed to trying to...  

• 'Game-show' death penalty

  A former "Dating Game" contestant now has a date with death. A California jury yesterday recommended that convicted killer Rodney James Alcala be...  
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  Lindsay's Super bawl time-out

  Lindsay Lohan is no "milkaholic," but she does cry like a baby. The "Mean Girls" star was left sobbing uncontrollably when she saw an E-Trade ad on Super Bowl Sunday about a ditsy, boyfriend-stealing infant named Lindsay she believed was created...  

• Tiger & Elin have kissy fit

  Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegen may have gotten out of the rough -- they've reportedly been seen kissing. One of Woods' Orlando neighbors...  

• Leibovitz debt deal is picture perfect

  Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images,...  
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  Suburban 'Jihad Jane'

  PHILADELPHIA -- A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist,...  

• Baby sling a smother risk

  WASHINGTON -- The government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings -- those popular and fashionable infant-carrier pouches. The concern...  

• Toyota sticks it to users

  Toyota is gearing up to recall more than 745,000 Priuses to prevent stuck accelerator pedals -- but the embattled automaker's engineers first need to...  
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  Pol now in tickle pickle

  WASHINGTON -- Disgraced former New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa admitted yesterday to aggressively tickling one of his male staffers nearly to tears at a party, but strenuously denied it was a sexual advance. Massa's defense came just hours...