Michelle Ruiz

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Michelle Ruiz is a freelance journalist in New York, contributing to New York magazine online, ABCNews.com and entertainment site, Popeater.com. She is a former writer-producer at ABC News.

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Protests Mix With Prayer at 'Year of the Priest' Gathering

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(June 10) -- Thousands of priests from around the world are gathered in Rome to celebrate the "Year of the Priest," but many of the clergymen are reflecting on a year marred by the clerical abuse sca ...

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Settlement Awards $712.5M to Ground Zero Workers

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(June 10) -- A renegotiated deal with the city of New York will give more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and cleanup workers a payout of $712.5 million in compensation for health damages they said th ...

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Accused Text-Rage Accomplice Apologizes to Victim

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(June 10) -- Kayla Manson, the 13-year-old Florida girl accused of acting as an accomplice in the brutal beating of 15-year-old Josie Ratley, apologized to her former best friend, saying she never th ...

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'Too Hot' Banker Boosted Assets With Surgery

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(June 10) -- The headline-making New York banker who says Citibank fired her for being too hot underwent four plastic surgery procedures, including two breast augmentations, the New York Daily News r ...

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Tot Struck by Dodger's Line Drive Undergoes Surgery

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(June 9) -- The 3-year-old girl who suffered a fractured skull when she was hit by a line drive during an Los Angeles Dodgers batting practice underwent surgery today, and her doctors are now forecas ...

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Valedictorian Who Lost Dad in Tornado Graduates

posted: 2 days 15 hours ago

(June 9) -- The Ohio valedictorian whose father was killed by a tornado last weekend outside the family home tearfully accepted her high school diploma Tuesday night. Wearing a baby-blue cap and gown ...

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Texas Billionaire's Heirs Will Inherit Fortune Tax-Free

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(June 9) -- After death, there may be no taxes for the relatives of a Texas billionaire. When Houston oil tycoon Dan L. Duncan, 77, died in March of a brain hemorrhage, the man Forbes magazine ranked ...

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Russia: Soldiers Plundered Polish Officials' Plane Crash

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(June 8) -- Four Russian soldiers assigned to guard the site of the April plane crash that killed Poland's president and 95 others have been charged with stealing bank cards from the smoldering wreck ...

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No Sign Yet of Missing 7-Year-Old Oregon Boy

posted: 3 days 14 hours ago

(June 8) --- Relatives of a missing 7-year-old boy pleaded for assistance from the community in Portland, Ore., as 22 local, state and federal agencies began a fifth day of searching for Kyron Horman ...

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Man Mourns Would-Be Fiancee Killed by Lightning

posted: 3 days 17 hours ago

(June 8) -- Richard Butler hoped to begin planning a wedding with his girlfriend of a year, Bethany Lott. Instead, Butler is in mourning. She was struck dead by lightning while they were hiking June ...

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