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Thirty-seven claims have been filed in federal court in Newark over the crash of a commuter ferry in New York City that left dozens of passengers injured.

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"American Idol" announced its 12th winner on Thursday.

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Investigators working in the remnants of an exploded Texas fertilizer plant sifted by hand through untold grains of corn, moved tons of debris and conducted more than 400 interviews, while searching for the missing piece to solve what many officials compared to an extraordinary puzzle.

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A homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who became an Internet hero earlier this year was arrested Thursday for allegedly beating a New Jersey lawyer to death inside his home.

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The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.

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Boston Marathon runners who were more than half way through this year's event but could not cross the finish because of the bombings at the finish will be to able to run in the 2024 Race.

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David Beckham is retiring from soccer after the season, ending a career in which he become a global superstar since starting his career at Manchester United.

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As he hid in a boat in Watertown, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note on the interior wall of the boat blaming the attack on "what the U.S. did to Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq."

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A stroller carrying a 14-month-old girl rolled off a slanted train station platform and fell onto the tracks Wednesday, but the girl's mother leaped onto the tracks to rescue her with the help other passengers, transit officials said.

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 Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury.

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