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A major earthquake in Indonesia today killed at least 75 people, according to a Red Cross disaster report, citing an official report from the country’s vice president. Earlier, Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Ministry of Health’s crisis center, said thousands may be trapped by collapsed buildings and houses.

Residents of close-knit American Samoa are pulling together to help Pago Pago recover from Tuesday′s devastating earthquake and tsunami, one resident told CNN today. “That’s how we operate over here in American Samoa — basically everyone is related,” said iReporter Maneafaiga Lagafuaina, of Lu’uuli. “We have pulled together as one.”

The would-be assassin of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism efforts, hid his bomb in his underwear, apparently believing that cultural taboos would prevent a search in that part of his body, according to a Saudi government official close to the investigation.

A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said. John Evander Couey, 51, died of natural causes, the Florida Department of Corrections said. “I never dreamed it would happen like this,” Jessica’s father, Mark Lunsford, told CNN. “I’m relieved. I’m glad it’s over with.”

Actor Dennis Hopper was taken to a New York City area hospital Wednesday morning for an undisclosed ailment, according to a publicist.

What appears to be the outline of a child in a fetal position can be seen in a photograph of the trunk liner from the car driven by Casey Anthony, a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, according to documents released in the case.

The videotaped beating death of an honors student in Chicago, Illinois, is “chilling” and one of the most shocking things “you can ever see,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

A small plane crashed outside Muncie, Indiana, as military F-16s trailed it Wednesday after its pilot failed to respond to radio calls, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.

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