11/20/09: Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of American exchange student Amanda Knox, who is accused of killing her British roommate more than two years ago.
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11/20/09: Police have released a frantic 911 call a woman made after seeing her neighbor bleeding and pleading for help. Turns out the family next door had been kidnapped and forced to takeout money from their bank. The woman was shot as she escaped.
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11/20/09: Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.
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11/20/09: A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said.
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11/20/09: At this workshop, Macy’s parade chief John Piper serves up a Thanksgiving smorgasbord with old and new friends for this year's parade. Ted Shaffrey reports.
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11/20/09: State health officials say a cat from the Linn County city of Lebanon died from the swine flu. Officials say the 10-year-old male apparently caught the virus from a human family member who had been sick.
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11/20/09: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many Republicans have been pushing to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning more toward a run for U.S. Senate.
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11/20/09: One person was killed Friday when a tour bus belonging to entertainer Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old 'Hannah Montana' star wasn’t on board.
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11/20/09: The European Union is heading into a new era with unknowns named to the bloc’s new presidency and foreign policy post. Early reaction Friday seems to show EU residents taking the selection in their stride.
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11/20/09: South Carolina police say an obese man died after not moving from his recliner for the past 8 months. Police say the man’s body was physically stuck to the chair and firefighters had to cut him out. He died a few hours later at the hospital
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11/19/09: Federal officials say flights were delayed across the country when a piece of communications equipment in Salt Lake City failed. This prevented air traffic control computers from talking to each other. The problem was later fixed.
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American Exchange Student’s Murder Trial Nears End
