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APNewsBreak: Family sues over Minn. office attack
The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of ...
Indian film star faces homicide charge
An attorney says Indian movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago.
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a ...
Authorities release photo of accused Ala. abductor
After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a ...
Chicago takes leading role in national gun debate
They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the ...
Police chief: No sign of fear from slain attorney
Authorities don't know whether a Texas prosecutor who had extensive experience with organized crime feared for his life before he was fatally shot, ...
Hunt for murderer mistakenly freed in Chicago
Authorities searched Friday for a convicted murderer from Indiana who was mistakenly released after a Chicago court appearance, as officials in ...
Sweden orders retrial for convicted serial killer
Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them.
Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks
Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ...
Woman who received stolen Hilton jacket sentenced
A woman who pleaded no contest to receiving a jacket stolen from Paris Hilton received three years of supervised probation on Friday in a sentence ...
Milan court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnapping
A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 ...
18 killed in northeast Nigeria military raid
Nigerian soldiers attacked training camps for suspected members of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram deep in a game reserve in the nation's restive ...
Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds
A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has become the second victim to die in the attack, authorities said Friday.
Nigeria lawmaker charged over alleged bribery
A Nigerian lawmaker who led a probe into the nation's fuel subsidy program that saw billions of dollars lost through fraud has been charged with ...
Shot Armenia presidential hopeful seeks vote delay
The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the ...
Teenage hacker sentenced in UK for cyber-attacks
A British court has sentenced a teenage hacker to youth rehabilitation after he and other members of the Anonymous movement carried out cyber-attacks ...
Spanish economy minister to testify in bank probe
Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has been called by the National Court to testify in a probe into alleged fraud at one of the country's major ...
Jury: Oregon car-bomb suspect guilty of terrorism
Three hours before they handed down a sentence that could put an Oregon man in prison for life, deliberating jurors sent a note to a trial judge with ...
Eating champ 'El Wingador' indicted on drug charge
A five-time wing-eating champion known as "El Wingador" has been indicted in New Jersey on cocaine distribution charges. William Simmons is charged ...
British detective jailed in phone-hacking scandal
A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe
More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes ...
TeliaSonera boss quits over Uzbekistan allegations
The chief executive of TeliaSonera resigned Friday after an independent review on alleged bribery by the telecoms company found it had failed to ...
LA archbishop relieves retired cardinal of duties
Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was stripped of his duties Thursday by his successor ...
Metal detectors at Ga. school where student shot
A middle school where a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded in the neck by a fellow student had metal detectors, and school officials were ...
9 judges charged with Philly traffic ticket fixing
Get caught speeding? Running a red light? Leaving the scene of an accident? For years, it was no problem, authorities say — so long as you were in ...