Plan to 'toughen up' boy goes awry

Two Anchorage, Alaska, men who told investigators they were horsing around with a "redneck flamethrower" set a 5-year-old boy's head on fire and have been charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment, according to police and court records.
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Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.
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3-alarm fire breaks out on Atlantic City boardwalk

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Officials say a three-alarm fire has broken out on the boardwalk in Atlantic City.
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Calif. fisherman arrested in sea lion shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
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EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
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