
Charges have been dismissed against an Army soldier accused in what prosecutors described as a conspiracy to kill Afghan civilians for sport and then cover it up, the military said Friday.
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Another teacher has been arrested at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on allegations of lewd acts on young pupils, authorities said Friday.
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The man that prosecutors say is behind the stabbing deaths of four homeless men in Southern California now stands accused of the brutal killing of a mother and brother of an old friend, authorities said.
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Justice Department prosecutors said Friday that they are closing a criminal investigation of champion cyclist Lance Armstrong without filing charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
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An Alabama robbery suspect fatally stabbed a police officer in jail, escaped in a stolen patrol car and wounded another officer before he was killed, authorities said Friday.
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Unraveling the complex back stories of the more than 200 pardons issued by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is revealing serious questions about how pardon review decisions were carried out.
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Rick Martin says he cried after interviewing the sister of Harry “Mike” Ainsworth, who was gunned down mercilessly in New Orleans in front of his two sons, ages 9 & 11.
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Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, who is suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, will be court martialed on charges that could lead to a sentence of life in prison, the Army said Friday in a statement.
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Despite below-freezing temperatures, divers searched two bodies of water in central Maine on Friday, looking for signs of a toddler last seen more than seven weeks ago.
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Brian Terry’s life serves as inspiration to those who knew him. His death, a thorn in the side of the federal government.
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A human smuggling ring used non-Spanish speaking African-Americans to drive suspected illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexican border to the Los Angeles area, according to immigration authorities.
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A Florida man accused of kidnapping, molesting and killing a 7-year-old girl will be in court Friday for a hearing that a sheriff’s office said could include “significant court action” regarding his case.
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Drug gangs in the Mexican border city of Juarez are killing police officers daily in a bid to force the police chief to resign, authorities there say.
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Cambodia’s war crimes court is to rule Friday on an appeal by a man who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
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Investigators waited more than a year before arresting an elementary school teacher after finding bondage photos apparently taken in his Los Angeles classroom, but a sheriff’s sergeant says, “We always had our eyes on him.”
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A bill that clarifies the illegality of insider trading of stocks and other securities by members of Congress and their staff members won approval Thursday from the U.S. Senate.
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A North Carolina teacher is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court after being accused in a plot to behead witnesses who testified against a would-be terrorist. A criminal complaint alleges the woman was part of a thwarted conspiracy to kill three people who testified against Hysen Sherifi, who was convicted last year in what prosecutors called a “violent jihad” plot.
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Gay rights advocates in South Africa hailed a judge’s sentencing of four men to 18 years each in prison for brutally slaying a 19-year-old lesbian.
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Setting up a white-hot face-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, the Justice Department late Wednesday sent a sharp letter to Issa rejecting his demands from a day earlier for documents by a next-week deadline.
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Setting up a white-hot face-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, the Justice Department late Wednesday sent a sharp letter to Issa rejecting his demands from a day earlier for documents by a next-week deadline.
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Setting up a white-hot face-off between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, the Justice Department late Wednesday sent a sharp letter to Issa rejecting his demands from a day earlier for documents by a next-week deadline.
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Attorneys for Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, will seek a delay of his court-martial in a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
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Attorneys for Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, will seek a delay of his court-martial in a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
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Attorneys for Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, will seek a delay of his court-martial in a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
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Joe Mathewson says the Supreme Court should start by televising the planned five hours of argument on the Obama health care law
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