NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers whom he called heroes....
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child....
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SEATTLE (AP) -- A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities searched unsuccessfully for his missing mother....
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Gardeners and landscapers along the Eastern seaboard are making haste - and money - as spring begins and they pick up the pieces from the region's particularly harsh winter, which toppled more than snowfall records....
8 hrs ago By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years....
2 hr ago By WILLIAM McCALL |
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair....
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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) -- A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussions between the ruling military junta and the U.S. State Department....
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Contractor URS Corp. and the state of Minnesota reached a $5 million settlement Friday in the state's lawsuit over the 2007 downtown Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others....
7 hrs ago By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI |
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City's police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his officers followed department protocol....
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CHICAGO (AP) -- A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago - including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old girl, nearly 200 guns and hundreds of bags of narcotics, officials said Friday....
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