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Investigator: Missing Iowa girl’s blood found

This image from video provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15, as she exits a school bus shortly before her abduction on Monday, May 20, 2013. Investigators say they recovered Shepard's backpack along with one belonging to a 12-year-old who escaped from the kidnapper. Police continued their search Wednesday, May 20, for Kathlynn around Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Investigators have discovered the blood of a missing 15-year-old Iowa girl on the truck of a registered sex offender suspected of kidnapping her Monday, diminishing the chances of finding her alive, a lead investigator said Thursday.

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Santa Fe police investigate fatal hit-and-run

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Chimayo man is dead after a hit-and-run accident in Santa Fe.

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Man shot by FBI had spoken with bombing suspect

FBI investigators walk near the crime scene of an apartment where a man was shot by an FBI agent, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Orlando, Fla.  The man who was shot and killed by the agent early this morning was friends with the Boston bombings suspects, according to a friend of the victim. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said.

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Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States.

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Man who kidnapped 2 Iowa girls had long record

This image from video provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15, as she exits a school bus shortly before her abduction on Monday, May 20, 2013. Investigators say they recovered Shepard's backpack along with one belonging to a 12-year-old who escaped from the kidnapper. Police continued their search Wednesday, May 20, for Kathlynn around Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When Michael Klunder enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa school bus stop Monday, it was at least his third kidnapping in a long criminal history in which he was ordered to receive sex offender treatment starting as a teenager.

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