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Sitting back in the pontoon boat, Thomas Rutland takes a break from gazing at the cow pastures and orange groves of his boyhood summers. "Back when I was growing up, you couldn't see anything out here," he says, pointing past the glow of the DeSoto Speedway and the Manatee Dam. "That there is Bradenton. That's Sarasota. And that tower there is the water treatment plant." His mother interrupts. "Lay off the tower talk," says 71-year-old Ardith Rutland. "Let's go gator hunting."

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In what may be the Internet's first attempt at a public suicide, a young Indiana man posted his efforts to kill himself with drugs on a Web discussion board, sparking a flurry of sympathy and taunts before he was located and saved by police. The teen survived after a Seattle woman reading the discussion board intervened and alerted authorities.

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Adds More Than 5 Million Criminal Records To Its National Database. Rapsheets.com users now have access to criminal records from 37 states and 24 metro areas, reinforcing the company’s status as the largest source of criminal records on the Internet. The Memphis-based company is the largest private owner of criminal records in the nation, and its new National Criminal Index (NCI) search is the fastest and most powerful tool now available to the private sector.

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An Air France flight bound for Oslo, Norway, was forced to make an emergency landing in Belgium after a naked passenger tried to storm the cockpit, authorities said Tuesday.
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