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Edwards jurors to resume talks Monday

A jury deliberated for about five hours Friday over whether John Edwards broke campaign finance laws and the panel made several requests before being sent home until Monday, suggesting they were...

Edwards jurors to resume talks Monday

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Jurors in Edwards trial will resume talks Monday

Jurors in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial deliberate for hours, will resume Monday

Iran, Syria among topics for G-8 and NATO

Summit agenda led by economy and Afghanistan, but leaders confer on Iran and Syria

AP PHOTOS: Hero driver in Calif bus kidnap dies

AP PHOTOS: Hero driver who helped 26 students escape after 1976 Calif bus kidnap dies at 91

Feds say Colorado wildfire started on camp stove

Camper blamed for starting Colorado wildfire with camp stove; Feds to pursue restitution

Bush to return to White House for portrait event

Former President George W. Bush to return to White House for unveiling of official portrait

Mary Kennedy services planned amid apparent rift

Amid apparent family rift, services planned for Mary Kennedy, estranged wife of RFK Jr.

Experts: Insanity defense doesn't fit in stabbings

Experts: Mich. serial stabbings suspect was not impulsive, not mentally ill; trial nears end

Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era

Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era, 1st private cargo flight to space station

Bush to return to White House for portrait release

Former President George W. Bush to return to White House for unveiling of official portrait

APNewsBreak: Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13

APNewsBreak: 'Coal Miner's Daughter' Loretta Lynn is 3 years older than claimed, married at 15

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On May 18, 1926,

evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, Calif. (McPherson reappeared more than a month later, saying she'd escaped after being kidnapped and held for ransom, an account that was greeted with skepticism in some quarters.)

In 1012,

Theophylact, son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, became Pope Benedict VIII, succeeding Pope Sergius IV.

In 1642,

the Canadian city of Montreal was founded by French colonists.