Report: $15M ransom for Urbina&#39;s mother
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Kidnappers of Maura Villareal, mother of Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Ugueth Urbina, have demanded a ransom payment of $15 million, according to Venezuela Electronic News.
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HERI Golun&#39;s mother covered her face with her hands and rocked backwards. The news her son was a suicide bomber was almost too much to bear.
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Officers who believe they have traced the mother of a new-born found dead in a garden, say a 15-year-old is receiving medical help.
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Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl's mother, is not his daughter.
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ANKARA, TURKEY - Abductors have nabbed one of Turkey&#39;s richest men in southern Iraq and are demanding $25 million US in ransom, a Turkish television station reports.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan gunmen  kidnapped the mother of major-league baseball pitcher Ugueth  Urbina after breaking into the family's home near Caracas,  police said on Thursday.
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By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 18--The Strickland administration plans to ask the state Controlling Board today to release initial funds to pay for the state's response to last week's theft of a data-rich computer backup tape.
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Baseball players and their families have become increasingly concerned about theft and kidnapping in Venezuela after the recent abduction of Ugueth Urbina's mother.
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Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested.    This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog  (which btw is news in of itself).
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The wife of a disgraced American contractor moved at least $2 million into overseas bank accounts to hide her husband's money, according to a letter from a German prosecutor, which was provided to the Associated Press.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday gave a judge all written communications in which he discussed state business with a union leader he once dated, as Republicans raised new questions about $15,000 he gave the union chief's brother-in-law.
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Iraqi kidnappers may have sold two Italian women hostages to militants tied to Al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Deputy Iraqi Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati has been quoted as saying.
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A lawyer's $15.7 million fee for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, relatives of the toddler said on Friday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The mother of one of three  American contractors abducted by guerrillas in Colombia 18  months ago on Tuesday called on President Alvaro Uribe to  negotiate his release and that of other kidnapping victims  throughout the country.
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The parents of a US-born Jewish teen killed by Palestinian militants near a West Bank bus stop eight years ago call a $156 million federal court award against three Islamic charities and an alleged Hamas fundraiser &quot;justice.
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It is suspected that they were freed in exchange for a $1 million ransom, a belief that has cast a cloud over national celebrations of the release.