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Sao Paulo could face gang war with truce collapse
A tenuous six-year truce between police and gang members is over in Sao Paulo — that much seems clear to shopkeeper Vanuza Alves da Silva, who has ...
Strait-laced Singapore hit by teacher scandals
Their affair started with her giving him a copy of the mushy memoir "Eat, Pray, Love." It ended with the 32-year-old female teacher in Singapore ...
US deplores murder of Honduran teen by military
U.S. officials are demanding answers after learning soldiers trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government chased down and killed a teenager in ...
Obama responds warily to sex scandal, FBI probe
Responding warily to his administration's sudden sex scandal, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he's seen no evidence that national security was ...
Venezuela deports alleged drug lord to Colombia
Venezuelan authorities deported a prominent drug-trafficking suspect to Colombia on Wednesday, nearly two months after his capture at a payphone in ...
Man put to death for Texas woman's 2001 slaying
A registered sex offender was put to death Wednesday for the rape, robbery and slaying of a woman abducted from a San Antonio bus stop 11 years ago.
Lawyers: Colo shooting suspect can't go to hearing
A court hearing for the man charged with the Colorado movie theater killings has been postponed after his attorneys said Wednesday that he had been ...
Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force
A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the ...
Ohio mom: Grandmother, uncle not in 'right minds'
The mother of three children killed this week in what police believe was a murder-suicide said Wednesday her mother and brother weren't in their ...
Witness: Day care owner concealed criminal history
A Texas woman convicted of murder for a fire that killed four children at her home day care lied in her application to run the business about having ...
Judge tosses anti-paparazzi counts in Bieber case
A judge dealt a blow Wednesday to a California law meant to crack down on reckless driving by paparazzi by saying the statute is overly broad and ...
Chicago's top cop: 'Code of silence' not tolerated
Just before the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer persuaded him to end his own career, then-police Superintendent ...
Jordan: 1 gunman killed in police station attacks
Gunmen attacked two police stations in Jordan Wednesday as demonstrators threw rocks and denounced their king over price hikes in a rare spike of ...
Prosecutor: Embezzlement plea a warning to others
A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that a small-town Illinois bookkeeper's admission that she embezzled more than $50 million should serve as a ...
Austerity protests stall several European nations
Hundreds of thousands of Europe's beleaguered citizens went on strike or snarled the streets of several capitals Wednesday, at times clashing with ...
False info in NY lottery led to arrest in $5M scam
The New York State Lottery put out false information to snare two Syracuse-area brothers accused of scamming a customer out of a winning $5 million ...
Lawyers surrender tapes in Waffle House CEO suit
Lawyers turned over recordings Wednesday of Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in sexual acts that were made by a woman who alleges the executive ...
What does it take to get people to flee a storm?
Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders ...
Man thought linked to huge art heist pleads guilty
A 76-year-old reputed Connecticut mobster pleaded guilty from his wheelchair Wednesday in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed the ...
Israeli airstrike kills Hamas military chief
Israel killed the commander of the Hamas military wing in one of some 20 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip Wednesday, the heaviest barrage on the ...
Bon Jovi daughter ODs on heroin
Jon Bon Jovi's 19-year-old daughter was hospitalized and facing drug charges Wednesday after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her college in upstate ...
Beating tax cheats key to Italy's recovery plan
Good plumbers may be worth their weight in gold, but when one was spotted zipping around in a bright red Ferrari, Italian tax police were fast on his ...
South Africa labor strikes, unrest expand to farms
Down a two-lane road, where slag heaps tower and miners' shack homes crowd against each other, the labor unrest now gripping South Africa first caught ...
Preliminary hearing in Afghan massacre case ends
As Army officials weigh whether a case against a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn rampage will proceed to a ...
S. Africa police: Smuggler swallowed 220 diamonds
Police in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country.