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WASHINGTON (AP) -- While California faces the nation's greatest earthquake risk, a government report says the threat of severe damage from these tremors crosses the nation. New York and Boston in the East and Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis in the middle are among the places at risk for damage and loss caused by quakes. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director James Lee Witt said that while the chance of being in an earthquake remained fairly constant over the years, the risk of damage has increased substantially. ''That's because of the increase of urban development in high seismic hazard areas ...

FACATATIVA, Colombia (AP) -- Police raiding a warehouse in this rural town stumbled upon a most unusual drug trafficking tool: A 100-foot-long, half-built submarine they say would have been able to ship up to 200 tons of cocaine below the ocean's surface. Colombian authorities displayed their find on Thursday, a day after they discovered it along with documents in Russian in this town a half-hour's drive outside Bogota. Police and journalists crawled through the snub-nosed submarine's three unattached reddish metal sections and gazed in wonder at its size and sophisticated design. ''It was between 30 and 40 percent completed ...

In the middle of a gunbattle with deputies trying to arrest them, an ex-stripper killed her former husband, a onetime FBI agent, with a shot to the head. She then killed herself. ''No one had any idea they were going to turn into Bonnie and Clyde on us,'' said Carlos Baixauli, an agent of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Former agent Justin Haberski, 40, who had become a lawyer and part owner of a strip club, and ex-wife Jennifer Bradberry Haberski, 29, were shot to death Friday as they ran from their car during the shootout with ...

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