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NATO says US warplanes have killed a senior Taliban commander in an air strike in the violence-racked southern province of Uruzgan. It says three bombs killed him and 10 to 15 other Taliban militants. NATO says the dead were involved in ambushes of Afghan soldiers and troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Mountainous Uruzgan is a stronghold of the Taliban, ousted by US-led forces in 2001, and next to Kandahar province, the birthplace of the hardline Islamist group. The Taliban have regrouped since their ouster and this has been the bloodiest year since 2001, with more than...

A SUSPECTED member of Al-Qaeda, Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Suwailmi, captured on Tuesday after bloody clashes with Saudi police in the central Qassim province, has died of his wounds, an interior ministry spokesman said. In a communique quoted by the official SPA news agency the spokesman said a second suspect was being sought by security forces after hijacking a car occupied by women in the sector where the clashes took place. Suwailmi "succumbed to his wounds and it turned out that he was wanted by the security authorities," the spokesman said. He ranked number seven on the list of the 36...

Indianapolis, Sept. 24 - A man suspected in the murder of a Butler University Police officer has been shot at 44th Street and Illinois. Police were searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of Officer James Davis. Davis was shot once in the head at 4600 Sunset just outside Hinkle Fieldhouse. Indianapolis Public Schools had locked down Broad Ripple High School along with schools 43, 55, 70, 84 and 91. All Butler students and faculty were asked to remain in classrooms and residences and the nearby International School was also under lockdown. Those lockdowns have now been lifted. Police...

Just heard on KFBK in Sacramento. KFBK is sending reporters to Richmond, CA where skeletal remains of a woman and fetus were found a little while ago. Richmond is on the San Francisco bay, north of Oakland.