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MCCALL, Idaho -- A pilot who was trying to crash-land this week in an Idaho field instead brought his small plane to rest at the top of an 18-metre-tall tree, officials said.
Pilot John Gregory was not hurt in the Monday night crash, which happened when his single-engine Piper Cub PA-18 lost power and a wing strut became entangled in the tree, according to the fire department in the resort town of McCall.
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NEW YORK -- A New York jury on Thursday convicted an extravagant socialite who bankrolled an implausibly lavish lifestyle with tens of thousands of dollars she swindled from banks, hotels and friends who believed she was a wealthy German heiress.
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A 17th century Geneva Bible, one of the hundreds of rare books authorities said were stolen from a Pittsburgh library as part of a 20-year-long theft scheme, is back home.
The Bible, published in 1615, was traced to the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, about 70 kilometres from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said FBI agent Robert Jones.
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U.S. President Donald Trump approved payment of a $2 million US bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in a North Korean prison, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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