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2 hrs ago | KIDK CBS 3

US releases names of Guantanamo 'indefinite detainees'

The names of dozens of detainees held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released for the first time on Monday after a newspaper sued the federal government for the information.

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

6 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Chicago's next US attorney faces urgent dilemma

Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Senator Mark Kirk, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Bobby Rush, Illinois, Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois Government

6 hrs ago | Stuff.co.nz

9/11 accused in Guantanamo court but trial distant

IN COURT: A sketch of self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, wearing a camouflage jacket and white turban, made during a break in the pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Cuba, World News, US Military, US Navy

9 hrs ago | KOAT-TV

Sesame Street: 'P' is for prison and that's OK

"Alex" has blue hair, a green nose and wears a hoodie. He seems like any other inhabitant of "Sesame Street," except his dad is in jail.

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Related Topix: Sesame Street, Animated TV, Children TV, Entertainment, Television, Family, Kids

9 hrs ago | Seattle Times

A look at who is still held at Guantanamo

President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Cuba, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Terrorism

11 hrs ago | KCRA-TV Sacramento

Snowden claims Obama did not fulfill promises

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

14 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Judge considers effect of fungus on Calif. inmates

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday is scheduled to consider whether an airborne fungus that occurs naturally in the San Joaquin Valley presents enough of a public health danger that thousands of vulnerable state prison inmates should be moved to other locations.

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

14 hrs ago | Mid Devon Star

Rare glimpse of child killer Brady

Ian Brady wants to be transferred to a prison from the secure Ashworth Hospital, where he is on hunger strike Moors Murderer Ian Brady has been seen in public for the first time in decades as his mental health tribunal began.

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15 hrs ago | Detroit News

Prisoners accused of orchestrating 9/11 attacks due back in court at Guantanamo

Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are due back in court as the U.S. government tries to push the long-stalled case forward.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

16 hrs ago | Click Orlando

Chen Guangcheng: NYU is forcing me out

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist whose dramatic escape from house arrest last year provoked a diplomatic firestorm between Washington and Beijing, said he is being forced to leave New York University over fears his presence there is affecting the university's relationship with China.

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Related Topix: New York University

20 hrs ago | BroadcastNewsroom

Faster than speeding bullet, 'Man of Steel' win box office race

"Man of Steel," the big-budget reboot of the Superman franchise, leaped over the apocalyptic buddy comedy "This is the End," collecting a muscular $113.1 million to lead the domestic box office with the year's second-largest opening weekend and the biggest June opening ever.

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Related Topix: The Purge

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Seattle Times

Vietnam arrests third blogger in less than a month

Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, the third blogger to be locked up in the past month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent, state media reported Monday.

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Related Topix: Blog News

KTEN-TV Denison

15 beauty queens left in Miss USA contest in Vegas

A group of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia are preparing to smile and strut their way toward the 62th Miss USA title.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire

WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so

When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.

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WINK-TV Fort Myers

Obama chooses lawyer as Guantanamo closure envoy

President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Cuba, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

ABC15.com

16-year-old IN death row inmate released

An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme Court intervened.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Death Penalty, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Boston Herald

Men wrongly convicted or arrested on bite evidence

At least 24 men convicted or arrested based largely on murky bite-mark evidence have been exonerated by DNA testing, had charges dropped or otherwise been proved not guilty.

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Related Topix: Dentistry, Violent Crime, Opinion

The News-Messenger

Miss Ohio contestants strut their style at fashion show

Twenty-three contestants modeled outfits provided by Richland Mall merchants Saturday afternoon, from casual shorts and tops to sundresses and skinny jeans in front of a crowd of well-wishers.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Mansfield, OH, Columbus, OH, State Prisons, Ohio State Reformatory, Wapakoneta, OH, Theater, Arts

KRMG-AM Tulsa

In Ga., a push to change civil forfeiture laws

Alda Gentile was not arrested. She was not charged with a crime. Yet police in Georgia seized $11,530 in cash that Gentile said she had in a car for a house-hunting trip in Florida.

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Related Topix: Nathan Deal, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Georgia, Georgia Government

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Los Gatos Weekly-Times

San Jose attorney sentenced to prison for embezzling $860,000 from...

A San Jose attorney was sentenced to state prison Thursday on charges he embezzled more than $860,000 from a client in 2011, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

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Related Topix: State Prisons, Santa Clara County, CA