US swine flu deaths surpass 1,000
ATLANTA - More Americans have been vaccinated against seasonal flu this fall than ever before by this time of year, federal health officials said Friday.
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2009-10-25
UConn mourns stabbing death of football player
STORRS, Conn. - A Connecticut football player who was an expectant father was stabbed to death early Sunday after an on-campus dance, just hours after helping his team to a homecoming victory.
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2009-10-18
Former Yale lab tech appears in court, hearing set
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday, but did not enter a plea to murder.
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2009-10-06
U.S. jobless rate hits 26-year high of 9.8 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers unexpectedly cut more jobs in September than in August, underscoring the fragility of the economy's recovery from its worst recession in 70 years as businesses remain cautious about the future.
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2009-10-03
Mourners in Calif. remember slain Yale student
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - A Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day is being remembered Saturday as a brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.
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2009-09-26
School drinking water contains toxins
CUTLER, Calif. - Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
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2009-09-25
Experts: Defense in Yale killing has tough job
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Defending a Yale lab technician charged with murder against what appears to be a mountain of forensic evidence might mean trying to convince jurors that the crime scene was contaminated because police didn't immediately shut down the lab where the victim was eventually found, legal experts said.
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2009-09-19
Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.
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2009-09-17
Lab technician arrested in slaying of Yale student
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with the suffocation death of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a research building wall on what would have been her wedding day.
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2009-09-17
Clues point to inside job in Yale killing
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.
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2009-09-14
Police: Found body is likely missing Yale student
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden inside the wall of a university building where she was last seen five days before.
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2009-09-13
Hillary Rodham Clinton surprises Yale graduates
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a surprise return to her alma mater on Monday, picking up an honorary degree from Yale University 36 years after earning her law degree from the Ivy League school.
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2009-05-26
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