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A Korean couple let their baby starve to death while they were busy raising a virtual child online, police said. The couple, from Suwon in South Korea, would leave their three-month-old daughter home alone in their apartment while they spent up to 12 hours a day playing a Second-Life style3D fantasy game called Prius Online, The Sun newspaper reports. Police said the couple had become totally immersed in the online game and neglected their real lives, giving their daughter just a bottle of milk per day. Father Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and 25-year-old mother Choi Mi-sun called paramedics when they arrived...

The 13th Fighter Squadron, grounded by heavy snow at Misawa Air Base in Japan over the weekend, began pulling out early Monday for a six-month deployment in South Korea. The first wave of pilots and F-16s flew out, with the main body of more than 300 support airmen expected to follow Tuesday. The Misawa squadron, known as the Panthers, is supplying 14 jets to temporarily fill the close-air support role held by an Army Apache helicopter unit — the 1st Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment at Camp Eagle. The regiment will move to Fort Carson, Colo., this spring. The fighters and...