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Poll: Most of Ireland favors wider abortion access
Most people in Ireland want lawmakers to give women wider access to abortion, a poll revealed Thursday as senior clerics testified before a ...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyers argue for new trial
Jerry Sandusky emerged from prison to attend a hearing 200 miles away at which his lawyers argued Thursday he deserves a new trial on child ...
Massacre-hardened Colorado a gun control test case
After the annual late-summer harvest on his farm in the eastern reaches of Colorado, Greg Brophy has a few friends over, breaks out the handguns and ...
UK detective found guilty in phone hacking scandal
A top British counterterrorism detective was found guilty Thursday of trying to sell information to one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloids, becoming the ...
Daughter claims Klaus Kinski abused her as child
Klaus Kinski's eldest daughter claims the late German actor raped her when she was a child, showering her with gifts as he used her as a "sex object," ...
Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects
Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men ...
3 Kurdish women shot dead at Paris office
Police say three Kurdish women have been shot dead at a pro-Kurdish center in Paris in what the French interior minister is calling an execution.
Owners try to ID items stolen in NY burglaries
It wasn't Francesco Venturiello's night. The Schenectady man whose home was burglarized in May was among the hundreds of people who came to the ...
Indian park battles poachers targeting rhino horn
Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of ...
Police in NY seek owners of 30,000 pieces of bling
For five years, someone prowled rural counties in upstate New York, pilfering pearl necklaces, gold chains, bracelets, coins, silverware and other ...
Steroids fallout: No BB Hall for Bonds, Clemens
No one was elected to the Hall of Fame this year. When voters closed the doors to Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, they also shut out ...
Documents show battle over lottery winner's estate
The widow of a Chicago lottery winner who authorities say was poisoned with cyanide has battled with his siblings over control of his estate, ...
Mother of serial killer Ted Bundy dies in Wash.
Louise Bundy, who was a staunch defender of her serial killer son, Ted Bundy, before he made a series of death-row confessions, has died. She was 88.
Mom who shot intruder inspires gun control foes
A Georgia mother who shot an intruder at her home has become a small part of the roaring gun control debate, with some firearms enthusiasts touting ...
Biden pledges urgent Obama action on gun control
Vice President Joe Biden vowed urgent action against gun violence in America Wednesday, pledging steps by the Obama administration that he said could ...
Reward offered for jewel box taken from museum
The Oakland Museum of California offered a $12,000 reward Wednesday for the safe recovery of a stolen gold-encrusted jewel box — the latest in a ...
Arizona sheriff launches patrols outside schools
The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has launched a plan to have as many as 500 armed volunteers patrol areas just outside schools in an effort to ...
Police: Fla. clerk's gun beats thief's cattle prod
Authorities say a Florida Panhandle man has been arrested after he tried to rob a convenience store with a cattle prod but was thwarted by a clerk ...
Conn. moves cautiously on guns in Newtown's wake
A month after the Newtown school tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is moving cautiously on gun control in Connecticut, a relatively liberal Northeastern ...
Va. man pleads guilty to theft of Obama van
A Richmond man has pleaded guilty to stealing a truck containing President Barack Obama's audio equipment. Eric Brown entered his plea Wednesday in U.
Ex-Okla. teacher pleads no contest to child porn
A retired college professor pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges Wednesday and a former third-grade teacher pleaded no contest to exploitation ...
Iowa officials warned of inmate before release
An Iowa man charged with killing his mother and kidnapping another woman hours after being released from prison made disturbing drawings while behind ...
Trial near end for boy charged with killing father
A slender blond boy with big eyeglasses appeared to listen intently Wednesday as lawyers argued over whether he knew the difference between right and ...
Self-portraits: Holmes sticks out tongue, has guns
The photos were chilling and enigmatic, just like their subject. In the pictures, taken on his IPhone hours before the Aurora movie theater massacre, ...
Review: 'Gangster Squad' is a numbing barrage
"Gangster Squad," a pulpy, violent tale of cops and mobsters in 1949 Los Angeles, rides an uncomfortable line between outlandishness and outright ...