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Release denied for dying Charles Manson follower (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:03 +0800

In this 1969 file photo, Susan Atkins, is shown. Atkins was convicted of the 1969 cult killings of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. California parole officials on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 considered releasing Atkins, who is dying of brain cancer, from prison, but the governor and others said her decades-old crimes were too brutal for her to be shown such mercy. (AP Photo)AP - Nearly 40 years ago, Susan Atkins was a leading character in one of the most horrific chapters in California history.


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Mass. Senate votes to let out-of-state gays marry (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:28:27 +0800

A legislative aide walks toward the Senate chamber, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at the Statehouse in Boston. The Massachusetts Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying here. The law prohibits couples from obtaining marriage licenses if they couldn't legally wed in their home states. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - Gay couples from across the country are one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding.


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New Chicago police superintendent gets a grilling (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:12:09 +0800

New Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis speaks with members of the Chicago City Council police and fire committee to address concerns about the city's crime rate Tuesday, July 15, 2008. City councilmen grilled Weis asking him to explain why the numbers of murders and other violent crimes are rising at the same time police are making fewer arrests, seizing fewer guns and even making fewer traffic stops. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Just months into his job, the outsider brought in to shake up Chicago's police department is on the hot seat over an increase in homicides and other violent crimes and a decrease in g! un seizures, arrests and even traffic stops.


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Fire crews make progress on California wildfires (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:34:01 +0800

In this July 5, 2008 file photo, Firefighters monitor a burning redwood tree along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif. Back on June 20, 2008, a lightning storm sparked 1,781 separate blazes throughout the drought-striken state burning 1,176 square miles. Tens of thousands fled their homes, and about 100 residences have burned down. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Fire crews started a controlled burn in the Los Padres National Forest in hopes of halting the massive blaze's spread through the ravaged hills of the central California coast.


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Restitution hearing set for boy band creator (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:35:34 +0800

AP - A restitution hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in Florida to determine how many investors were bilked — and of how much money — by convicted boy band architect Lou Pearlman.

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Life for killer of 11 in LA commuter rail disaster (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:07:12 +0800

AP - A man who murdered 11 people by causing a commuter rail disaster was spared the death penalty Tuesday by jurors who wept while listening to victims' relatives but decided he should get life in prison without parole.

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Videos provide glimpse of Ky. plant shooting (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:26:27 +0800

Superior Court Judge James Bodiford listens to listens to Christopher Quinn, center,standing, as Henderson Hill, right, standing, looks on during jury selection Thursday morning July 10, 2008, in Atlanta, Ga. Jury selection in the much-delayed trial of Nichols, the accused courthouse killer, got underway Thursday at the Fulton County courthouse. Nichols, who is accused of a courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, more than three years after prosecutors say he confessed to the killings.(AP Photo/John Spink,pool)AP - Newly released surveillance videos pr! ovide a glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead last month.


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Woman gets nearly 11 years for NY adoption fraud (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:42:14 +0800

This 2007 file photo provided by the St. Lucie County, Fla., Sheriff's Department shows Judith Leekin, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., who bilked a child welfare agency out of more than $1 million in adoption subsidies while allegedly abusing 11 disabled children. Leekin was sentenced in New York Tuesday, July 15, 2008 to nearly 11 years in prison. She also faces abuse charges in Florida and could be sentenced to as much as 120 years in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/St. Lucie County Sheriff's Dept., File)AP - A woman who lied to adopt 11 disabled children whom authorities say she abused while she raked in! more than $1 million in subsidies was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison.


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US moves to revoke citizenship of suspected Nazi (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:36:34 +0800

AP - The Justice Department asked a federal court Tuesday to revoke the citizenship of an 86-year-old Seattle-area man, saying he served in a Nazi unit that slaughtered 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II.

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Study: When kids become teens, they get sluggish (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:42:11 +0800

Mary Lee is shown chatting with friends online, Monday, July 14, 2008, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Among a nationwide group of about 1,000 American children followed for several years, 90 percent were physically active for at least two hours each weekday at age nine. But by age 15, that plummeted to less that 3 percent of kids. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do.


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E. coli linked to beef now reported in 5 states (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:58:00 +0800

AP - An E. coli outbreak traced to recalled beef in Michigan and Ohio has spawned cases in three other states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.

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Court: Enemy combatant can challenge designation (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:48:46 +0800

In this image reviewed by the US Military, The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, in June 2008 in Cuba. A US federal appeals court has overturned the designation of a Muslim from western China as an enemy combatant and sharply criticized the government's evidence against him, court documents showed Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - The Bush administration has the authority to capture and detain suspected enemy combatants in this country but must give them an adequate opportunity to challenge their military detention, a clos! ely divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.


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Energy tsunami coming, ex-policymakers warn (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:23:58 +0800

AP - A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress saying the country faces "a long-term energy crisis" that threatens the security and prosperity of future generations if swift action isn't taken.

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Former fugitive asks Mich. court to toss sentence (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:17:10 +0800

In a photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections, Susan LeFevre is shown in a May 2008 booking photo. LeFevre, caught at her upscale home near San Diego 32 years after escaping a Michigan prison asked a judge Tuesday, July 15, 2008, to set aside her original sentence for selling heroin in hopes of winning back her freedom. LeFevre has been in a Detroit-area prison since May, where she is serving out at least 5 1/2 years of her sentence. Under sentencing laws from the 1970s, LeFevre will have to serve at least that many years before being eligible for parole in 2013, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. (AP Photo/Mi! chigan Department of Corrections, File)AP - A housewife caught at her upscale home near San Diego 32 years after escaping a Detroit-area prison asked a judge Tuesday to set aside her original sentence for selling heroin in hopes of winning back her freedom.


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Wildfires bring demand for private firefighters (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:08:11 +0800

Casey Armstrong, left, clears defensible space as Colin Stewart, hoses down a home in a demonstration of the service provided by Wildfire Defense Systems, at a home in Paradise, Calif., Thursday, July 10, 2008. Business is booming for private firefighting companies as drought, dry lightning storms and soaring temperatures create a combustible combination across the west, stretching the fire season from early summer late into fall. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Seated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires. His job: protect high-end ! real estate and save an insurance company millions of dollars.


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Elderly women get life in L.A. insurance killings (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:50:29 +0800

This combination of photos released by the Los Angeles Police Department in 2006 shows Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt. The two women were sentenced in Los Angeles on July 15, 2008 to spend the rest of their lives in prison for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department)AP - Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.


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NYPD: Off-duty cop in shooting failed drunk test (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:37:45 +0800

AP - An off-duty police detective failed a required sobriety test after wounding an armed suspect, leading a union official to suggest Tuesday that officers will think twice about stepping in when they're off the job.

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N.J. towns' sex-offender residency limits rejected (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:59:23 +0800

AP - New Jersey towns cannot ban sex offenders from living near schools, parks, or other places where children gather, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

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`Cuckoo's Nest' hospital to be torn down (AP)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:37:38 +0800

Oregon State Hospital is seen in a June 12, 2008 photo, in Salem, Ore. Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - So long, Cuckoo's Nest.


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