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Raft of office-buying fuels disgust from Chinese
In a small town in northern China's Inner Mongolia where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, Fan Chen paid a Communist Party boss three times ...
ABC News asks judge to toss 'pink slime' lawsuit
Lawyers for ABC News asked a judge Wednesday to toss out a $1 billion defamation lawsuit filed by a South Dakota-based meat processor over a meat ...
Justices: Do drug-sniffing dogs pass smell test?
Can you trust what a dog's nose knows? Police do, but the Supreme Court considered Wednesday curbing the use of drug-sniffing dogs in investigations ...
DA: Grand jury to consider Texas chopper shooting
A grand jury will consider the case of two Guatemalan immigrants killed when a Texas state trooper in a helicopter opened fire to stop a tarp-covered ...
Ex-players reply to NFL's motion to dismiss cases
Arguing that "football has become the site of perhaps the gravest health crisis in the history of sports," lawyers for thousands of former NFL players ...
Teen deaths case behind French riots reopens
France's highest appeals court on Wednesday reopened a trial of two police officers accused of failing to help two teenagers whose 2005 electrocution ...
Mother: Execution brings relief, not closure
Tina Curl was so eager to see her 9-year-old daughter's killer executed Tuesday night that she couldn't even take her seat in the witness room. "I was ...
Vietnam sentences 2 songwriters to prison terms
Two musicians in Vietnam whose topical songs are popular among overseas Vietnamese were sentenced to prison Tuesday, prompting criticism from the ...
Ohio teen faces life after Craigslist conviction
An Ohio teen faces life in prison with no chance of parole for his role in killing and robbing three men and trying to kill a fourth in a deadly ...
SD executes man for rape, death of 9-year-old girl
A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar ...
Stepmother: Boy, 10, shot his neo-Nazi dad
The 10-year-old son of a neo-Nazi leader told his younger sister that he planned to shoot their father, then a day later took a gun from his parents' ...
Opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in Rwanda
A Rwandan court sentenced the country's top opposition political leader to eight years in prison on Tuesday for treason and on a charge stemming from ...
Mexican man pleads guilty in killing of US agent
A Mexican man pleaded guilty Tuesday in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death revealed the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling ...
Correction: Oil Pipeline-Texas Landowners story
In a story on Oct. 17 about TransCanada Corp.'s effort to build a pipeline in Texas, The Associated Press erroneously reported that landowners are ...
Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
Six Chileans and an American accused of the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of a Spanish U.N. official in Chile were indicted Tuesday by a Spanish ...
Faulkner estate sues over quotes in movie, ad
William Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead. His heirs say their copyright to that phrase is very much alive. The author's literary estate is ...
Pole gets 30 years for killing 6 on Channel Island
A Polish builder who killed six people, including his wife and children, on the British Channel Island of Jersey has been sentenced to 30 years in ...
Court skeptical about tossing surveillance suit
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of a government request to invalidate a lawsuit challenging the expansion of a surveillance law used to ...
Cyprus police: hit on attorney general foiled
Three men including a "paranoid" convicted felon allegedly plotted to assassinate the country's attorney general using an anti-tank weapon, a police ...
Greek publisher in court over Swiss bank names
A Greek publisher appeared in court Monday following the publication in his magazine of a list of the names of more than 2,000 Greek residents with ...
Hulk Hogan settles sex tape lawsuit with DJ
Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit with a disc jockey over a sex tape involving Hogan and the DJ's wife. A statement by Hogan's ...
Former suspect in Etan Patz case to be freed
While prosecutors weigh what to do about a suspect who surprisingly surfaced this spring in the landmark 1979 disappearance case of Etan Patz, the man ...
Trial in 1977 killing asks: Were suspects framed?
Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them ...
Execution looms for SD killer, ending 22-year saga
Torrential overnight rains had washed away the blood so the searchers at first thought the pale form lying on the earthen berm might be a mannequin.
FBI tip leads French police to wanted US mogul
An FBI tip helped French police track down and arrest an 87-year-old real-estate developer and his wife wanted by U.S. authorities — more than a year ...