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Oil jumps to nine-month high after Iran cuts supply

Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and

France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.

By Monday afternoon, benchmark March crude was up $2.02 to $105.26 per barrel in elect ...

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A child yells out for her father as she pushes on a gate where police stand on the other side after her mother and other adults pushed the gates in an attempt to get past state police at the Apodaca correctional state facility in Apodaca on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday Feb. 19, 2012. A fight among inmates at the prison led to a riot that killed dozens on Sunday, according to a security official. (AP Photo/Hans Maximo Musielik)

Zetas gang killed rivals, escaped at Mexico prison

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Imprisoned members of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel stabbed and bludgeoned 44 members of the rival Gulf cartel to death and then staged a mass escape, apparently with the help of prison authorities, officials in northern Mexico said Monday.Rodrigo Medina, governo ...

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Iran says may cut oil to more European countries

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran is considering

extending an oil embargo on France and Britain to other European

countries, a semiofficial

Iranian news agency reported Monday.

The head of Iran's state oil company Ahmad Qalehbani was quoted by Mehr as saying that the country would stop selling cr ...

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Paraguay: Stray dog's barking foils prison break

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison break in Paraguay.

Officials say three dangerous inmates dug a tunnel about 26 feet (eight meters) from their cell to the street, and were about

to break free just before dawn when the dog began to bark and alerte ...

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Emu escapes from Vt. farm, on the lam for 5 weeks

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (AP) — An elusive emu on the lam in Vermont has been amusing residents in communities on Lake Champlain.

The 150-pound flightless bird looks like a small ostrich. It has been spotted wandering here and there in Grand Isle and South

Hero since it escaped from a local farm five ...

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NM woman heads to trial for stealing $2 pumpkin

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 23-year-old college student from New Mexico is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly stealing

a small pumpkin worth two dollars.

KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., reports that Lauren Medina will go before a jury and Moriarity Magistrate Judge Steve Jones

on Tuesday. ...

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Polish folk art society defends its 'Oskar' award

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland,

but Hollywood doesn't want anyone else handing out Oscars.

So the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is demanding that Poland's Association of Folk Artists ...

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Fla. meth case involves three generations of family

CROSS CITY, Fla. (AP) — It's a generational thing: Deputies in Florida say a man, his daughter and his grandson, along with a fourth person said to be a family relative, are accused of working together to manufacture methamphetamine.Dixie County Sheriff's officials say 54-year-old Allen J. Bra ...

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died, North Korean television announced Monday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)<br>

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies at 69

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions

for his isolated communist nation dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.

Kim's death was announced Monday by the state television fro ...

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Margarine still missing after stolen truck found

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a thief who slipped away with $50,000 worth of margarine remains at large even though the truck that carried the payload has been recovered.The trailer was parked awaiting delivery to a Target warehouse in Cedar Falls when it was stolen Dec. 10 from a pa ...

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Giant Lego Man may soon be released from custody

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The 100-pound, 8-foot-tall mysterious Lego man that was found on a Florida beach may soon be sprung from a holding room.Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said Thursday that Lego-man could be freed from the shed where he's been kept for two days.The giant Lego appeared on ...