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Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO
There's a new head of household products giant Procter & Gamble. The company is bringing back former CEO A.G. Lafley, a 33-year industry veteran, to its top post in a surprise move as the world's largest consumer products maker tries to improve its results globally. Lafley, 65, replaces CEO Bob ...
Francona manages at Fenway for 1st time since 2011
Terry Francona felt right at home in the visiting dugout. Back at Fenway Park as a manager for the first time since being let go by the Boston Red Sox in 2011, he was calm and occasionally funny while wearing the cap of the Cleveland Indians. After all, he's back ...
Fossil area closed after 2 boys die in Minn. park
St. Paul authorities shut down a popular fossil-hunting area in a riverside park Thursday, one day after two children were killed and two others injured by a landslide. Mayor Chris Coleman announced the indefinite closure after searchers late Thursday morning recovered the body of a boy who had been missing ...
Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant. Miguel Sanchez, 59, initially gave officers a false name when he was arrested Wednesday, according to the ...
Tornado took town's youngest as it swept through
One loved the spotlight. Another was nicknamed "The Wall" because of the force he brought to the soccer field. When a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., it took with it 24 lives. Seven of them were children at Plaza Towers Elementary school; two were only babies. These are ...
Swim coach sentenced to 7 years for sex abuse
A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed. Richard J. Curl, who last year was banned for life from the sport by USA Swimming, apologized for abusing the girl over a four-year ...
Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm
A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children. And so she raced against the storm. She had 30 miles to cover from her job in Edmond to Plaza Towers Elementary School, where her 8-year-old daughter ...
Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs
U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his ...
Euro Tour CEO apologizes for saying 'colored'
The head of the European golf tour apologized for using the term "colored" during a live television interview Thursday in which he was reacting to the spat between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia. European Tour CEO George O'Grady said that "most of Sergio's friends are colored athletes in the United ...
Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin
Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of a gun and what looks to be a ...
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