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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A small airplane hit a bald eagle before it crashed and burst into flames just north of Anchorage last month, killing all four people on board, authorities said Wednesday.

Big game hunting does not enjoy the same reputation it had back when President Theodore Roosevelt killed 512 animals during a 1909 safari through eastern Africa.

Last night, after the Indiana primary results were called, almost immediately, for reality television star and R'lyehian love-pillow Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz -- thought to be the last hope of the "#NeverTrump" movement if we weren't counting John Kasich (and we weren't) -- bowed out of the race, elbowing his wife in the face in the process.

It’s spring and I’m getting ready to hit a favorite local stream, a tumbling freestoner that carves its way through a rocky gorge. Four-weight bamboo fly rod, check. Fly boxes, check. Waders, check. Chain stringer, check. Chain stringer? What the…? 

The City captain lasted less than ten minutes against Real Madrid before another muscle injury cut his night short.

John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio and a moderate voice who tried to portray himself as the adult in the Republican primary field but failed to win any state but his own, will end his long-shot quest for the US presidency on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), according to two people briefed on his decision.

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Preparations for next month’s African Athletics Championships in Durban are finally in full swing.

SAN FRANCISCO (ANP) - Neelie Kroes wordt voorzitter van een belangrijke adviesraad van taxibedrijf Uber. De voormalig minister en eurocommissaris gaat Uber adviseren over zaken als regelgeving en mededinging. Dat heeft Uber-directeur David Plouffe woensdag via een blogpost bekendgemaakt.

BOSTON - Massachusetts has paid out more than $687,000 to deceased pensioners. That's according to an audit released Wednesday that also found the agency had underpaid pensioners whose designated beneficiaries had died by more than $271,000.

CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is turning to a federal appeals court in his increasingly desperate attempt to keep filmmaker George Lucas from building his museum in another city.

Emanuel's office says in a news release Wednesday that it's filing a petition with a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parks advocacy group Friends of the Parks, which opposes the lakefront museum.

Dow off triple digits in final hour; Caterpillar, GE, Goldman top decliners

Uber has appointed Allan Fels, the former head of Australia's consumer watchdog, to a new global advisory board on public policy.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Long-denied tensions between Turkey's president and prime minister are beginning to surface publicly, leading to speculation from political observers that the country's powerful leader may be considering replacing the premier with a figure more willing to…

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (UPI) -- Popular Internet forum Reddit constructed a "horse-sized duck" made entirely out of balloons in honor of a long-running joke.

The 2016 race season should be a good one at the Tomah/Sparta Raceway, said Steve Jorgensen, race director.

DAMASCUS, Syria - The Latest on Syria's civil war (all times local):

A gait expert has testified in the case against renowned artist Zwelethu Mthethwa who is on trial for the murder of a sex worker.

SHIPROCK, New Mexico - The Latest on the abduction and killing of an 11-year-old girl on the Navajo Nation (all times local):

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that formed Iraq, Syria and the other fragile nations of the modern Middle East. The past few weeks have provided dramatic new evidence, if more were needed, that the old colonial framework created by Britain and France isn’t working.

NEW YORK - U.S. and global stock indexes were lower for a second day Wednesday following a dismal report on job creation that gave investors concern over the state of the economy. The data followed a round of economic news out of China and Europe a day earlier that also suggested sluggish growth.