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PARIS - Daul Kim, a top model who graced Fashion Week runways from New York to Milan, has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

The 20-year-old South Korean stunner was known for her thick mane of hair - sometimes dyed blond - and her quirky sensibility.

The 5-foot-10 model has strutted the runway for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, and Dolce & Gabbana.

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DINWIDDIE COUNTY, VA - Virginia State Police (VSP) have held a news briefing to provide details on this morning's crash involving a tour bus for singer Miley Cyrus.

The accident happened on I-85 south near mile marker 56 in Dinwiddie County, about 45-minutes south of Richmond, Va. Police said 10 people were on board the bus when it went off the road and overturned. The singer was not on board and is not at the scene of the accident.

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NEW YORK - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani saw firsthand the destruction that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding September 11, 2001 as jetliners smashed into the Twin Towers.

Eight years later, the former Republican candidate for president in not mincing words with the Obama administration, saying Sunday that in bringing those accused of the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial, the President has become too concerned with the "rights of terrorists" and is oblivious to, what Giuliani feels, are the real dangers of radical Islam.

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WASHINGTON - The last time self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's alleged influence was felt in New York City, two jetliners smashed into the Twin Towers, nearly 3000 died, and a nation came to a standstill of mourning and shock.

Anger followed, as did two wars in far off lands.

Now Mohammed is coming back to the city he allegedly attacked to face a federal civilian jury. He will be tried in a courthouse just blocks from where the towers once stood.

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LOS ANGELES - It is safe to say that when Tom Sparks signed up to be a contestant on the game show "Wipeout" he had no idea what would follow his participation in the ABC primetime show.

The former radio disc jockey was hospitalized after competing in the first segment of an obstacle course Oct. 19, and ultimately died two weeks later of a stroke apparently caused by a rare condition, according to his father.

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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - A religious Christian in Florida tried to send Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a bouquet of flowers and a note that calls him a "hero," but the man got a knock on his door from the FBI instead, according to a Florida television station.

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WASHINGTON - Whether or not it was a cry for help or a warning of violence to come, the presentation Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan made to medical colleagues a year-and-a half ago was not what it was supposed to be.


In June 2007, Hasan warned colleagues at the Walter Reed Medical Center that the U.S. military should let Muslim soldiers be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims, in order to "decrease adverse events," according to a report Tuesday in The Washington Post.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Will a Little Rock jury deliver a death sentence to the killer of Arkansas news anchor Anne Pressly?

The jury convicted Curtis Lavelle Vance of murder, rape and other charges on Wednesday. It is now weighing whether to impose the death penalty on Vance, who police say admitted to beating the KATV anchorwoman with a wood-handled garden tool.

The attack shattered Pressly's face and sent her into a coma. She never regained consciousness and died five days after the Oct. 20, 2008 attack.

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NEW YORK - As American families mourn loved ones lost in combat and celebrate the heroes of war, the loss of 13 men and women in last week's Fort Hood, Texas massacre runs especially deep.

Those who died that day were young and old, natural-born and immigrants, but all were serving this country when they were allegedly gunned down by Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan.

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JARRATT, Virginia - It was a peaceful end for John Allen Muhammad, the man behind the 2002 Washington D.C.-area sniper attacks - a peace not granted to Muhammad's 10 victims, nor the families they have left behind.

Calm, stoic and defiant to the end, Muhammad refused to utter any final words. He died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks that October.

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