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KETCHIKAN, Alaska – Ed and Renee Schofield were surprised when they got a call from the pound in Ketchikan. They were indeed missing their chocolate Labrador, Bently. But the Ketchikan Gateway Borough animal shelter is a long swim from their home on Pennock Island. The Schofields were told Wednesday that …

LONDON – A British man who beheaded an 82-year-old woman in her backyard has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Nicholas Salvador stabbed Palmira Silva to death in north London in September. He cut off her …

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. panel is calling for Internet and social media companies to respond to the exploitation of their services by al-Qaida and other extremist groups who use the web to recruit fighters and spout “increasingly horrific propaganda.” The panel recommended in a report circulated Wednesday that these …