Batavia
Batavia, currently known as Jakarta, was once the capital city of the Dutch East Indies and was named after the Batavii, prehistoric inhabitants of the Netherlands. In 1610 the Dutch East Indi...
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A small school bus carrying 14 people rear-ended a dump truck Wednesday, seriously injuring the bus driver and two passengers, state police said.The bus was carrying 10 high school students and thr...
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A small school bus carrying 14 people rear-ended a dump truck Wednesday, seriously injuring the bus driver and two passengers, state police said.The bus was carrying 10 high school students and thr...
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A Japanese man convicted in a 1946 military tribunal for forcing
women to work in a brothel in Indonesia during World War II was found
at the time to have set up the brothel on instruction fr...
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Sharing the blame with others isn't enough to save a woman from being convicted of murder in the death of her 3-year-old foster son, who was bound in a blanket and packing tape and left in a closet...
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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley jumped out of his seat. People around town cheered. But now the hard work begins for the city that was picked Saturday as the American bidder for the 2016 Summer Olympic...
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The Chicago Tribune has launched a community journalism Web site encouraging readers in nine suburbs to post their own articles, photos and blogs."This started with the question of how can we make ...
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More than 25 Americans are believed to have been abducted by militants in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Here are some of them:____ May 12, 2007: Three U.S. soldiers were abducted in an ambus...
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The state's largest theme park said it will end its summer season four weeks early this year as its corporate parent continues to suffer financial problems.
Six Flags Darien Lake, located ...
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A 43-foot-long magnet for the world's largest particle collider broke "with a loud bang and a cloud of dust" during a high-pressure test, and officials said Tuesday they are working to find a repla...
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Home projects are inherently messy, but the undisputed champion of messes is the blizzard of fine dust unleashed as drywall joint compound is sanded and re-sanded.It's fruitless to cordon off rooms...
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Batavia
School bus, dump truck collide
