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Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter dies at 78 29 mins ago, LONDON
This is a Jan. 17, 2007, file photoof Nobel-winning British playwright Harold Pinter, wearing the French Legion d'honneur that he was awarded by French Prime Minster Dominique de Villepin, at the French Embassy in London. Pinter's wife the writer Lady Antonia Fraser said Thursday Dec. 25, 2008 that Pinter has died (AP Photo/Carl de Souza, Pool)

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Tree falls on family's car on NJ parkway, kills 2 2 hrs 1 min ago, BLOOMFIELD, N.J.
A tree has fallen onto the car of a family driving along a New Jersey highway on Christmas morning, killing a grandmother and a father and injuring his two daughters.

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1st tests: Water safe after Tenn. ash deluge 1 hr 37 mins ago, HARRIMAN, Tenn.

 

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