CHARLOTTESVILLE — Tears rolled down George Huguely’s face and his shoulders shook as he watched the videotape of his statement to police on the morning he was charged with murdering Yeardley Love. His wailing sounded in the courtroom from a TV screen as he repeated dozens of times “she’s not dead” and “there’s no way she’s dead” in the 25 minutes after detectives finally told him Love was dead. Jurors leaned toward the screen to watch, with one wiping her eyes. Read full article > >

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I t’s easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley — two huge industries clashing over whose voice should dictate the future of Internet policy — but it’s absolutely wrong. The bills are dead , thanks to widespread protest. But the real architects of the bills’ defeat don’t have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don’t have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they’ve been all but invisible to Congress. Read full article > >

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The producers of Fox’s doc-drama “House” announced Wednesday they will pull the plug at the end of this season. In this way, they avoid beating a dead horse. Because in this, its eighth season, the Hugh Laurie-starring vehicle is averaging only about 9 million viewers. That’s compared to, oh, say the 20 million viewers it clocked in its third season. Read full article > >

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Search and rescue efforts are continuing for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving dozens dead or missing.

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There’s paranormal, and then there’s para- puhleeez . The line between those two can be quite fine, especially when results vary from viewer to viewer. “The River,” which premieres on ABC on Tuesday night, leaps back and forth from frightening to ridiculous so often that it might as well be performing double-Dutch jump rope. It’s a drama about a film crew that goes in search of missing nature/adventure TV show host Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood), who was last seen shooting episodes of his docu-series, “The Undiscovered Country,” in remote tributaries of the Amazon River. He was presumed dead — until his GPS locator started beeping out a distress signal. Read full article > >

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Explosions have hit a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, scene of deadly attacks last month, and a market in Maiduguri to the west.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — It’s been nearly two years since University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was found dead facedown in a pool of blood on a pillow in her bed. Within hours, her ex-boyfriend, George Huguely V , a lacrosse player from Chevy Chase, was charged with murder and jailed in Charlottesville, where he remains. Read full article > >

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The Chester Upland district’s fiscal woes – so severe that it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month – are compounded by a charter school with which it shares its financing.

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Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty is found dead in the gym at his home in Lincolnshire at the age of 54.

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Last year was the deadliest for civilians in the decade-long U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report released Saturday. The report said 3,021 civilians were killed in 2011, an 8 percent increase from 2010. It was the fifth consecutive year that the number of deaths has increased. Read full article > >

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A third person is charged with murder after a man was found dead in his flat in Essex.

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CAIRO — Throngs of young Egyptians incensed over a deadly melee at a soccer match clashed with security forces outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Thursday night as the episode threatened to plunge the country into a new cycle of recriminations  and violence. Read full article > >

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