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Texas inmate prepares for 3rd trip death house
September 23, 2012 LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — What Cleve Foster remembers most about his recent brushes with death is the steel door, the last one condemned Texas inmates typically walk through before their …
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Novel courts handle low-level crimes across US
September 23, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In most courtrooms, spontaneous applause could get you thrown out. But in this San Francisco court, it’s expected — and strongly encouraged for the defendants. 2
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6 youth offenders caught after knocking out guard
September 23, 2012 SEATTLE (AP) — The teenage boys apparently planned their escape from the juvenile detention center in Washington state. Some had packed bags with them, and one boy even stuffed his …
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AP Exclusive: Philadelphia man Nazi probe target
September 23, 2012 BERLIN (AP) — Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, The Associated …
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Apple, Samsung demand changes to $1B verdict
September 22, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.’s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics Co. after a three-week trial this summer. …
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Apple, Samsung battle over $1B verdict
September 22, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.’s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics after a three-week trial this summer. Samsung …
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Tom DeLay still waiting to learn legal fate
September 22, 2012 HOUSTON (AP) — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — still waiting to learn his legal fate since being convicted nearly two years ago for his role in a … 4
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Suspect in Guatemala killings extradited to US
September 22, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Guatemalan soldier accused of taking part in a massacre during that country’s civil war more than a quarter century ago has been extradited to …
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Guatemalan massacre suspect extradited to US
September 21, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Guatemalan soldier accused of being involved in a 1982 massacre during that country’s civil war was extradited Friday to California where he faces immigration …
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4 more sentenced in sexual assault of Texas girl
September 21, 2012 LIBERTY, Texas (AP) — Four men who pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of an 11-year-old Texas girl were each sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison, terms they … 2
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Bond at risk for Ohio Amish hate-crime defendants
September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Nine of 16 Amish convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have remained free, but the government asked Friday to have them locked …
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Woman takes helm following Air Force sex scandal
September 21, 2012 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Air Force handed the reins of basic training to a woman Friday following a sex scandal in which 42 female recruits say they were improperly …
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Another sentenced in sexual assault of Texas girl
September 21, 2012 LIBERTY, Texas (AP) — One of six men who have pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of a young southeast Texas girl over a three-month period in late 2010 … 1
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Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio beard-cuttings
September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen men and women who rejected lenient plea deals are facing lengthy prison terms for their convictions in the hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in …
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Colo. shooting suspect in court; DA seeks print
September 21, 2012 CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Seeking to avoid any delays in the Colorado movie theater shooting case, prosecutors gave up their fight to see a notebook the suspect sent to a …
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Family: Minn. Somali left to join al-Shabab
September 21, 2012 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man recently traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabab, a spokesman for his family said, renewing fears that the terror group is continuing to recruit Somalis …
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Judge says anti-Muslim clip can stay on YouTube
September 21, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 14-minute film trailer blamed for protest violence in the Middle East will remain on YouTube, after an actress lost her legal challenge to take it …
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Detroit’s former mayor faces corruption trial
September 21, 2012 DETROIT (AP) — After a last-ditch effort to move the case out of Detroit failed, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is returning to court for the start of a corruption trial …
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Ill. man guilty of murdering wife, kids in 2007
September 21, 2012 JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — It took five years to get to the case to trial and five weeks to get through all the testimony. But it took just 50 minutes …
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Wis. woman convicted in fetal-abduction case
September 20, 2012 MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who confessed to trying to steal a baby by attacking a pregnant woman and slicing out her full-term fetus was convicted Thursday of killing …
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Video shows Lohan-pedestrian encounter at NY club
September 20, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Grainy surveillance footage released Thursday shows Lindsay Lohan’s car driving toward a man who says she hit him outside a nightclub and kept going, but the …
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Bourbon Street ‘no preaching’ law challenged
September 20, 2012 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A street preacher sued on Thursday to block a city ordinance that restricts religious or political speech on Bourbon Street after dark. In his federal lawsuit, …
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Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks
September 20, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious …
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Taiwan co. fined $500 million for LCD price fixing
September 20, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Taiwanese company was fined $500 million Thursday and its former president and executive vice president were each sentenced to three years in prison for their …
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Colo. suspect in court, this time without red hair
September 20, 2012 CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — For the first time with hair that’s brown instead of a wild shade of orangish-red, the suspect in Colorado’s movie theater shooting appeared in court Thursday …
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Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip
September 20, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — An actress who appeared in an anti-Muslim film trailer that sparked violence in the Middle East lost her legal challenge on Thursday to have the 14-minute …
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Penn State brings in victim fund veteran Feinberg
September 20, 2012 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The lawyer who ran the Sept. 11 victim fund and other major victim compensation efforts has been hired by Penn State in its effort to settle …
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Ohio executes man for killing 2 strangers in 1989
September 20, 2012 LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio death-row inmate used his last words Thursday to repeatedly apologize to the family members of his two victims and tell them that he hopes …
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Issa: IG report step toward restoring faith
September 20, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican House committee chairman said Thursday that a watchdog report on a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona is a huge step toward restoring public faith in …
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Man suspected of threats faces weapons charge
September 19, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rants, racist remarks and menacing words permeate the Internet these days, so why did police decide to arrest a Yale dropout for investigation of making online …
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