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Kidnapping survivors Jaycee Dugard, Elizabeth Smart speak out on Cleveland missing-women case

WASHINGTON - Famous kidnapping survivors Jaycee Dugard and Elizabeth Smart have words of wisdom for the three women found this week in Cleveland years after their disappearance.

Neighbours: Ohio man who owned home where 3 women found alive once went to vigil for missing

CLEVELAND - In the tight-knit neighbourhood near downtown where many conversations are spoken in Spanish, it seems most everyone knew Ariel Castro.

Military reports of sexual assaults up in 2012; Pentagon, Congress demand oversight, changes

WASHINGTON - Sexual assaults in the U.S. military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs, according to a new Pentagon report.

Grand jury judge says former Penn State administrators charged over sex scandal are stalling

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated how former administrators handled Penn State's high-profile child sex-abuse scandal said in a new court filing that the defendants are intentionally stalling their criminal case with repeated motions and appeals.

Military reports of sexual assaults up in 2012; Pentagon, Congress demand oversight, changes

WASHINGTON - Sexual assaults in the U.S. military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs, according to a new Pentagon report.

Head of Boston Marathon compensation fund warns victims to lower their expectations

BOSTON - The administrator of a fund created to help Boston Marathon bombing victims has a blunt message for them: Lower your expectations.

Think H7N9 cases are slowing? Too soon to declare virus under control: experts

The numbers of new cases of H7N9 bird flu are still rising, but these days the daily increase is more a trickle than the gush of a few weeks ago.

US, Russia to call conference this month in effort to revive Syria peace strategy

MOSCOW - The U.S. and Russia agreed Tuesday to try to convene an international conference this month to come to a political solution to end the two-year Syrian civil war but gave no indication how they would convince President Bashar Assad into talks with the rebels seeking to overthrow him.

Cleveland police facing questions after 3 women are rescued; neighbours say they had suspicions

CLEVELAND - One neighbour says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another heard pounding on the home's doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.

Pa. AG blames defence motions for delays in former Penn State administrators' case

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's attorney general is blaming defence motions for delays in the criminal case against former Penn State administrators accused of covering up child sexual abuse complaints about Jerry Sandusky.

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