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ANGLETON, Texas – A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. (MRK) liable for the death of a man who took the once-popular painkiller Vioxx (search) in the first of thousands of lawsuits pending across the country. The decision came during the second day of deliberations. The seven-man, five-woman …

PARIS – Fire raced through a crowded, rundown apartment building housing African immigrants early Friday, trapping residents in their sleep and killing 17 people — 14 of them children, officials said. The blaze began after midnight under the ground-floor stairwell of the seven-story building on the corner of a major …

WASHINGTON – A third person has now come forward to verify claims made by a military intelligence unit that a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it had information showing that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta (search) and other terrorists were identified as being in the United States. J.D. Smith, …