LYNDON, Kansas (AP) — A jury has recommended that a Kansas man be sentenced to death for killing four family members in November 2009.
The jury returned its recommendation Monday after hearing more testimony about 48-year-old James Kraig Kahler and his state of mind at the time of the fatal shootings. The judge set sentencing for Oct. 11.
Kahler was convicted Friday of four counts of capital murder …
Bayern Munich has extended the contract of midfielder Hamit Altintop for another season.
The Bundesliga champion says Altintop …
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The Senate approved a $286 billion (197.12 billion) farm bill on Friday with an election-year expansion of subsidies for growers and for food stamps for the poor.
The bill, passed on a 79-14 vote, expands subsidies for wheat, barley, oat, soybeans and several other crops and creates new grants for growers of vegetables and fruit.
In recent years such subsidies have caused serious friction in trade negotiations with Europe under the World Trade Organization's so-called Doha Round to produce a global trade arrangement. Talks that began in 2001 have foundered on the refusal of both the European Union and the United States to eliminate subsidies.
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A chemical explosion in eastern China killed 18 people and injured 10 others on Wednesday, state media reported.
The blast occurred about 4 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) as workers unloaded chemicals from a truck in Lanshan district in Linyi city in Shandong province. It was not known what chemicals …
WASHINGTON A cache of 3,000 letters, newspaper clippings, 19thcentury playbills and playbooks, photographs of 19th century actorsand other papers of John Thompson Ford - the owner of Ford's Theatrewhen Abraham Lincoln was assassinated - has been donated to theLibrary of Congress.
The collection was hidden away in an old Ford family trunk inCaldwell, Idaho.
The papers give a glimpse of the figures in the assassination -still a major preoccupation of Civil War historians - as well as aclose-up view of theatrical life in the mid-19th century.
John Ford Sollers, himself a drama professor, donated thepapers, which he inherited from his aunt Lizzie Ford, the …
BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent surgery Friday after doctors discovered a partially blocked artery in his neck during an examination of his back, which was injured in a 1964 airplane crash.
Kennedy, 75, underwent the hourlong procedure on his left carotid artery at Massachusetts General Hospital, his office announced. The operation, performed by Dr. Richard Cambria, the hospital's chief of vascular surgery, was completed without complications, and the Massachusetts Democrat was expected to be released in several days.
"As part of a routine evaluation of Senator Kennedy's back and …
