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It sounded like a thunderstorm as windows broke and the ground shook, but vacationers who were awakened from their rooms at a villa near Orlando soon realized that the building was starting to collapse - parts of it swallowed by a 100-foot sinkhole that also endangered two neighboring resort buildings.
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- 'Hyperloop' would link LA-SF in 30 mins, if built
- August 12, 2013 (LOS ANGELES) - Imagine stepping into a car-sized capsule in downtown Los Angeles and, 30 minutes later, emerging in San Francisco.
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- August 12, 2013 (WASHINGTON) - With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.
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- August 12, 2013 (BANNING, Calif.) - Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
- Egypt postpones dispersing pro-Morsi protest camps
- August 12, 2013 (CAIRO) - Egyptian authorities on Monday postponed plans to disperse two Cairo sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, saying they wanted to "avoid bloodshed," security officials said.
- Mona Lisa model hunt leads to Florence tomb
- August 12, 2013 (FLORENCE, Italy) - Researchers trying to identify the Renaissance model for Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" have excavated bones in a tomb in a Florence basilica in hopes they are the remains of her descendants.
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- August 12, 2013 ( PORTLAND, Maine) - A shell disease that has plagued the southern New England lobster industry for years by making lobsters unsightly and in some cases unmarketable appears to be creeping northward to the lobster-rich grounds off the coast of Maine.
- 'Dufnering' pioneer Jason Dufner wins PGA Championship
- August 12, 2013 (PITTSFORD, N.Y.) - Golf, not gardening is Jason Dufner's strong suit. But the just-crowned PGA Championship winner decided he wanted something more to remember Oak Hill by than the usual souvenirs - a hefty check, a gleaming trophy and a host of good memories.
- 'Breaking Bad' airing last 8 shows on AMC
- August 12, 2013 (BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.) - How many of the fans who watch the hit AMC series ''Breaking Bad'' actually know what that title means? Star Bryan Cranston says he didn't know before he came on as teacher-turned-drug-lord Walter White.
- Lon Snowden gets visa to visit son in Russia
- August 11, 2013 (WASHINGTON) - National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said Sunday.
- Father kills son, himself at YWCA offices in NH
- August 11, 2013 (MANCHESTER, N.H.) - A New Hampshire software engineer shot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office, officials said Sunday.
- Connecticut plane crash pilot had survived earlier crash
- August 11, 2013 ( HARTFORD, Conn.) - The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot, a former Microsoft executive who was taking his teenage son on a tour of East Coast colleges.
- Northern Ireland militants clash with police, injuring 56 officers
- August 11, 2013 ( DUBLIN) - Northern Ireland's police chief vowed to hunt down and imprison scores of Protestant militants after they attacked and wounded 56 officers protecting a parade by Irish Republican Army supporters.
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