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Personal relationships at focus in Sands trial
Attorneys told conflicting stories about the role that personal relationships and favors play in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau during opening ...
2 men charged in kidnapping of 10-year-old CA girl
A convicted felon planned to burglarize a San Fernando Valley home but ended up kidnapping a 10-year-old girl at knifepoint and sexually assaulting ...
US won't allow Russians to see Guantanamo prisoner
The U.S. won't grant Russia access to one of its citizens held at the Guantanamo Bay prison because the prisoner refuses to meet with the delegation ...
Both sides rest in Rockefeller impostor's LA trial
The defense and prosecution rested their cases in the murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor Wednesday after his ex-wife called him a ...
Authorities to seek charges against survivalist
Authorities were pushing Wednesday for attempted aggravated homicide charges against a survivalist suspected of burglarizing dozens of remote Utah ...
Fargo takes action to lessen impact of flooding
The landscape has changed dramatically since the record flooding of the Red River: Hundreds of once-vulnerable homes are now gone and miles of ...
Ga. soldier charged in killing of pregnant wife
A Georgia soldier accused of plotting attacks as leader of an anti-government militia group was charged with murder by the Army on Wednesday in the ...
Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return ...
NY barber who survived rampage says he played dead
The barber who survived last month's fatal shooting rampage in neighboring central New York villages said Wednesday he played dead while the gunman ...
Pal: Nightmares drove NJ man to admit 1990 killing
A southern New Jersey man who admitted killing a teenager 23 years ago was haunted by nighttime visions of the boy's mother, according to the ...
Lewinsky lawyer William H. Ginsburg dies at 70
William H. Ginsburg, who was Monica Lewinsky's lawyer during the sex scandal of the Clinton presidency, has died. He was 70. His daughter-in-law, ...
Man convicted in deadly Ariz. fire enters plea
A man who was locked up more than 40 years for a 1970 Arizona hotel fire that killed 29 people walked out of prison a free man Tuesday, hours after ...
Authorities: Nobody hurt in arrest of survivalist
Authorities captured an elusive survivalist on Tuesday who is suspected of burglarizing Utah cabins and leaving some covered with threats and bullet ...
Police: Man in Vegas crash admits using drugs
An 18-year-old driver who plowed into a Las Vegas restaurant during lunchtime in a crash that seriously injured 10 people appeared disoriented ...
2 flee Texas jail, 1 faces capital murder charge
Two inmates with long criminal histories — including one awaiting trial for capital murder — escaped an East Texas jail, dumped their black-and-white ...
Prosecutor: Wis. dad killed girls to hurt ex-wife
The day his ex-wife could legally remarry, Aaron Schaffhausen hopped aboard a train and left North Dakota to go back to Wisconsin. The next day, he ...
Ohio man who killed 6-month-old girl seeks mercy
Condemned killer Steven Smith's argument for mercy isn't an easy one. Smith acknowledges he intended to rape his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter but ...
Transgender man plans to keep seeking divorce
A transgender Arizona man whose divorce request was rejected after his marriage was declared invalid plans to keep trying to get his 9-year union ...
Okla. board pushes for charges against dentist
Citing the scope of a public health scare involving thousands of patients of an Oklahoma oral surgeon, the head of the state's dentistry board said ...
US, French tourists kidnapped, 1 raped in Rio
A night out on the town turned into a nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transport van while her French ...
Southern Calif. man stages April Fool's plane joke
It's the plane crash that wasn't in Southern California. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports (http://bit.ly/YQ8fyA ) a Yucaipa businessman staged ...
Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the US
Antonio Hammond is the $18,000 man. He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore, one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul ...
Family grieves 5 relatives dead in Nevada crash
A Nevada judge set bail at $3.5 million on Monday for a California teenager jailed on felony drunk driving charges in a weekend crash that killed five ...
Suspect in Colo. prison chief death got out early
Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month's killing of Colorado's corrections chief was freed from prison in January — four years ...