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Navy sailor, fiancee tie knot at Nevada airport

A U.S. Navy sailor married his high school sweetheart on Tuesday in Reno-Tahoe International Airport, just moments after returning from an 11-month deployment off the coast of war-torn Syria.

Head-butting elk in viral video euthanized

The young elk featured in a viral online video playfully head-butting a photographer has been euthanized after authorities at the Great Smokies National Park determined he was a safety threat.

Virginia state senator stabbed, son dead of gunshot wound

Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, who ran unsuccessfully for governor four years ago, was stabbed Tuesday in his head and chest at his home, and his son died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the residence, police said.

 
Lion kills fellow lion in front of Dallas Zoo crowd

Officials at the Dallas Zoo say they cannot explain how one lion was killed by another in full view of visitors and families watching the exhibit.

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Explosions near Iranian Embassy in Beirut kill 23

Two suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah’s support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

‘Selfie’ declared 2013 Word of the Year

Michelle Obama shared one with her “first dog” Bo, Hillary Clinton tweeted one with her daughter Chelsea. Now “selfie” — the smartphone self-portrait — has been declared word of the year for 2013, according to Britain’s Oxford University Press.

Conservative students to play ‘Catch Illegal Immigrant’ game

A conservative student group announced Monday they will play a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game” this week on the University of Texas at Austin, drawing condemnation from Democrats and a threat of expulsion from campus officials.

 
Paris newspaper office shooting wounds photographer

French police are hunting for a gunman suspected in a shooting Monday at a Paris newspaper office that gravely wounded a photographer, as well as three other attacks around the nation’s capital.

 
Dad: Google Maps shows image of slain son

A San Francisco Bay Area man wants Google Maps to remove a satellite image that shows the body of his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed in 2009.

 
Zimmerman’s girlfriend claims he pointed gun at her

Deputies say George Zimmerman’s girlfriend accused him of pointing a shotgun at her during an argument at the home they shared in Florida.

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