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By Kate Snow, Diane Beasley, Jay Kernis, Michelle Kessel and Erin McClamRock CenterFriends started calling Jennifer Summers on Monday night and telling her to turn on the news: Three kidnapped women had been freed, and there was a chance that one of them was Summers’ daughter, who disappeared in Cleveland six years ago.“Oh, my God,” Summers remembers thinking. “Let’s hope it’s Ashley.”It was not. ...
All options are on the table, including canceling the America's Cup this summer, as investigators review the death of an Olympic gold medalist and the safety of new space-age yachts that are pushing the limits of technology, U.S. yachting administrators said Friday.Andrew "Bart" Simpson, 36, the chief strategist for the Artemis Racing team, died Thursday when the yacht he and 10 colleagues were on...
The last of the three Cleveland women kidnapped and held captive for a decade left the hospital Friday.The woman, Michelle Knight, had been getting mental health treatment after she was freed Monday, her mother said earlier this week. It was not clear where she was going after leaving the hospital.Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, along with a 6-year-old daughter whom Berry bore in captivity,...
Cost-sharing, which is mistakenly embraced as a reform tool by some health care economists, will neither make care more affordable nor improve public health, says an important new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a Muslim cemetery in Virginia after a Christian woman spearheaded an interfaith effort to find a resting place for his remains, she said in a statement.Martha Mullen, who attends a United Methodist church, said she had the blessing of her pastor as she tried to end a weeklong impasse over Tsarnaev's body."Jesus tells us 'love your ene...