Police: Livery cab driver hit with hockey stick before death

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City police say a livery cab driver has died after he crashed shortly after an angry pedestrian struck him in the head with a hockey stick.

Police say the 68-year-old Lincoln Town car livery cab driver was hit in the head by the pedestrian ...
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New garden by Piet Oudolf planned for Detroit's Belle Isle

DETROIT (AP) - Open houses are planned this month on a proposed garden for Detroit's Belle Isle by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Garden Club of Michigan are hosting public meetings Tuesday and Nov. 28. Oudolf's work is seen at Lurie Garden in ...
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A small-town doctor wanted to operate on transgender women. He faced an uphill battle.

Geoff Stiller works in a conservative community on the Washington-Idaho border. He didn't realize what he was in for when he asked a hospital to allow him to perform vaginoplasties — the final and most significant step of a female transition.
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In Boston, a Dutch treat of donated Golden Age masterpieces

BOSTON (AP) - Boston's art scene is getting a Dutch treat with a twist: a flurry of donated 17th-century masterpieces that experts say will change the city's museum landscape for decades to come.

First, collectors gifted the Museum of Fine Arts with 113 leading Golden Age masterpieces - including a ...
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Kalalei wins Athens Marathon amid Kenyan sweep of top 5

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Samuel Kalalei has won the Athens Marathon, beating Milton Rotich by just over two minutes in a Kenyan sweep of the top five.

Kalalei broke away from the pre-race favorite Rotich after the 35-kilometer mark to win the hilly course in 2 hours, 12 minutes and ...
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South Africa's Johnny Clegg sings, kicks on farewell tour

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At 64, his pancreatic cancer in remission, South African musician Johnny Clegg kicked high and stomped five consecutive times - the signature move of Zulu war dancing - during a packed Johannesburg concert that he says is one of his last.

Clegg performed what he called an ...
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A small-town doctor wanted to perform surgeries for transgender women. He faced an uphill battle.

Geoff Stiller works in a conservative part of the Pacific Northwest. He didn't realize what he was in for when he asked a hospital to allow him to perform vaginoplasties — a surgical procedure to construct vaginas for transgender women.
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