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NEW YORK – Gunfire erupted in the storied Waldorf-Astoria hotel during a brazen robbery attempt Saturday at a lobby jewelry store, wounding a security guard and sending guests diving for cover. The 54-year-old guard, Gregory J. Boyle, was shot in the chest but was expected to survive. A suspect was …

The pirates who seized a Saudi oil supertanker in a brazen hijacking dropped anchor near a Somalia fishing village as a Somali official vowed to rescue the vessel and “use force if necessary.” The ship anchored near the impoverished village of Harardhere, a pirate stronghold some 265 miles by land …

DENVER – A man used a hydrogen-peroxide powered jet pack to travel 1,500 feet across the Royal Gorge near Canon City on Monday. Daredevil Eric Scott said it was incomparable to anything he’d done in the past, saying he’d never gone that far or had such a huge gap below. …