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LONDON – A man accused of planning to bomb North America-bound airliners said Monday that he was planning a publicity stunt, not mass murder. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, one of eight British Muslim charged with plotting to detonate liquid explosives aboard passenger jets, told Woolwich Crown Court he wanted to give …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Police have recovered the 1997 maroon Ford Crown Victoria apparently driven by 16-year-old Antoinetta Smith, but a search continues for her and a 1-year-old toddler she was baby-sitting. Police said the vehicle belonging to the child’s mother was found Friday night in Birmingham’s Central Park neighborhood. A …

McKINNEY, Texas – Ridgell M. McKinney is ready to cross the stage and get his high school diploma, 74 years after his classmates made the same walk. McKinney’s 94 and would have graduated in 1934 had he been willing to rat out a friend. Chalk it up to honor and …