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31 min ago | Sunherald.com

Small SC county reels from corruption scandal

When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is deeper and more widespread through the county.

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Related Topix: Union, SC, Federal Prisons, Drugs

4 hrs ago | Gouverneur Times

Italian prosecutors: US student staged break-in

Lead prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said Amanda Knox of Seattle and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito broke a window in a bedroom of the apartment that Knox shared with victim Meredith Kercher.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News

9 hrs ago | KTNV

Hearing begins for Maui man accused of being spy

A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science, Federal Prisons

13 hrs ago | Rome News - Tribune

9/11 trial a death penalty test for NYC juries

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, New York Government, New York, Terrorism, Fordham University, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Thu Nov 19, 2009

ap.onlineathens.com | lois sprague

Gates says Afghan surge could happen swiftly

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S. forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major deliveries of troops and supplies to go by air.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai

CBS 46

Lawyer Says Polanski's Family Suffering

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Entertainment

CBS News

Third Sears Tower Plotter Gets 8 Years

A third man has been sentenced in Miami to federal prison for his role in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower, shown, and blow up FBI offices.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Federal Prisons, Terrorism

The State

Former China student leader tried on fraud charges

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial in southwestern China on Thursday on financial fraud charges after being extradited from Hong Kong, a human rights group reported.

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Related Topix: China, World News

MyFoxDFW

Perry May Decide Killer's Fate Tonight

Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether condemned killer Robert Lee Thompson, set for execution Thursday, lives or dies.

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Related Topix: Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors, Criminal Defense Law, Law

ClipSyndicate

Congress questions officials about vaccine shortage

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US News, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Marsha Blackburn, Medicine, Influenza, US Military Prisons, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Wed Nov 18, 2009

www.cnn.com | lois sprague

Suspect charged with murder of gay teen

The suspect in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and four other counts, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Luis Fortuno, US House of Representatives, World News, Puerto Rico,

Boston Globe

Nicolas Cage visits Kenyan jail to talk to pirates

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, World News, Kenya, Entertainment

Cw56.com

NH Clinton office hostage taker to get out of jail

A man who took hostages at one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's New Hampshire presidential campaign offices in 2007 is expected to be released from state prison.

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Related Topix: Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, State Prisons

Gouverneur Times

Obama: No exact deadline for closing Gitmo

The administration no longer feels it can meet the January 2010 deadline Obama set for closure soon after taking office.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Camp Delta, US News

Kansas City Star

Holder: Don't fear trial of 'coward' 9/11 plotter

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

KSDK NewsChannel 5

Illinois congressman defends 'savage religion' comment about terror suspects

A Republican congressman from Illinois says his comment that suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.

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Related Topix: Donald Manzullo, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Tue Nov 17, 2009

blog.mlive.com | lois sprague

For Michigan prisoners, how much time served is enough?

When Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered state departments last month to propose ways to slash their budgets by 20 percent in advance of her 2011 budget proposal, the Michigan Department of Corrections quickly tabulated that they had to come up with $380 million in savings.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government, Jennifer Granholm, US Governors, Isabella County, MI

ABC News

STUDY: Gay Priests No More Likely to Abuse

The Associated Press 1 comment A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy... A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, ...

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

SILive

Former lawyer in terror case ordered to prison

Former civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart speaks to supporters outside Manhattan federal court following her 2006 sentencing for helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.

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Related Topix: Second Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, Wagner College

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