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A TRAGIC firefighter was hailed a hero last night after he laid down his life to save residents from a pub inferno. Brave Ewan Williamson, 35, was crushed when the floor collapsed as he battled the ferocious blaze at Edinburgh’s Balmoral ...Read More

(CNN) -- Some family members of 9/11 victims welcomed the announcement that five Guantanamo Bay detainees with alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, while others blasted the decision. "I'm very, very disappointed in ...Read More

The American who was sacked as the deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan after alleging a cover-up of election fraud accused President Karzai yesterday of masterminding another massive operation to steal next week’s run-off contest. Peter Galbraith, who left ...Read More

GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa — An emergency worker testified Thursday about finding the body of a murdered 2-year-old boy in brush near a northeast Iowa pond and a first-aid kit that the boy's brother used to try to help him. Jesup firefighter ...Read More

The U.S. Justice Department says more than 300 people have been arrested in the United States over the past two days, as part of a massive operation targeting the La Familia Mexican drug cartel. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters ...Read More

A Washington, D.C., firefighter was badly burned last week after a staged fire department demonstration went horribly wrong, MyFOXDC.com reported. D.C. Fire and EMS Department Chief Dennis Rubin apologized for the incident, in which firefighters set a mock dorm room on ...Read More

WASHINGTON - A fire department photo-op went horribly wrong after a firefighter was badly burned during a fire safety exercise on the campus of Galludet University. DC Fire and EMS Department Chief Dennis Rubin has apologized for the incident which he ...Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Good Samaritan, shown on video dramatically rescuing achild from a Bronx fire, has moved on to another great moment: proposing marriage on livetelevision. Horia Cretan got down on one knee this morning on ABC's "Good MorningAmerica." ...Read More

Rescuers are stepping up efforts in the Philippines, a day after Tropical Storm Ketsana triggered deadly floods by dumping capital Manila and several other provinces with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years. Disaster officials said the death toll on ...Read More

A Mexico resident has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after admitting a role in a massive operation that manufactured and sold counterfeit identity documents in seven U.S. cities. U.S. Attorney David Gaouette said Thursday that 46-year-old Pedro Castorena-Ibarra's ...Read More

LOS ANGELES -- The body of fallen firefighter Capt. Tedmund Hall is being escorted through Los Angeles to a mortuary in Victorville. Hall's body was driven through the command center Friday in a white hearse while hundreds of firefighters saluted by ...Read More

A helicopter carrying the chief minister of India's Andhra Pradesh state has gone missing. The aircraft carrying YS Rajasekhara Reddy disappeared in bad weather on Wednesday as it flew over forests where Maoist rebels operate after took off from Hyderabad, the ...Read More

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq in what has been deemed the largest movement of manpower and equipment in modern military history — shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to ...Read More

When can we go home? That's what evacuated residents wanted to know Sunday as firefighters made progress against a blaze in Santa Cruz County, California. The so-called Lockheed Fire, which has burned almost 7,000 acres since last Wednesday, was 50 percent contained ...Read More

At least six people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, within hours of a US announcement that two more of its Marines had died in combat. The Chinook helicopter, which a Nato spokesman described as a civilian aircraft, ...Read More

Around 70 firefighters were called to tackle the fire, which broke out just after midnight on Sunday morning at the Balmoral bar in Edinburgh. Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue (LBFR) said the two officers were part of a team wearing ...Read More

It may be one of the dumber Supreme Court rationales in quite some time. Writing for the 5-4 majority which ruled in favor of New Haven's white firefighters and effectively against anti-discrimination in employment, Justice Anthony Kennedy said "Fear of litigation ...Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A judge has given a 90-day jail sentence to a man accused of killing his dogs to avoid boarding them while he went on vacation. Forty-three-year-old David Santuomo pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of animal cruelty and ...Read More

A firefighter in Columbus, Ohio, admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he could vacation without paying to board them, The Columbus Dispatch reports. "He said chunks of ...Read More

David Cox, 18, was left seriously injured in the attack in Bessacarr, Doncaster, on Monday night. His life-support machine was switched off yesterday afternoon. It is understood he suffered from autism and dyspraxia and had a mental age of eight. A South ...Read More

WASHINGTON — The most attention-grabbing case of Supreme Court nomineeSonia Sotomayor's began when a Connecticut city rejected the results of a firefighter-promotion test because whites outscored blacks and Hispanics. In the case, likely to be a hot-button issue at her confirmation ...Read More