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Nebraska court: Woman must testify in rape case
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:44PM May 11, 2012 CommentOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman can be sent to jail for refusing to testify against the man she has accused of sexual assault, the Nebraska Supreme Court said Friday, although it suggested that might not be the best way to address her reluctance to take the stand.
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Ex-NE mob boss gets 5½ years in RI strip club plot
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:20PM May 11, 2012 CommentPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The former New England Mafia boss was sentenced Friday to 5½ years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Providence strip clubs, becoming the first ex-mob leader to be locked up in a case that has ensnared nine people described by prosecutors as having ties to organized crime.
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Nebraska court: Woman must testify in rape case
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:13PM May 11, 2012 CommentOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court says a Kansas woman can be sent to jail for refusing to testify against the Nebraska man she has accused of sexual assault.
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2 New Charges for Alleged White House Shooter
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The bullet hole in the window on the residential level on the south side of the White House. According the the U.S. Secret Service, it was allegedly fired by Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, on November 11, 2011. O
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of shooting an assault rifle at the White House and charged with the attempted assassination of President Barack Obama faces two additional counts.
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Man freed in NYC Tamil Tiger case
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:49AM May 11, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a U.S. citizen accused of supporting Sri Lankan rebels to time served in jail on Friday — about five years — after casting doubt on the terrorism case and calling the 20-year term sought by prosecutors excessive.
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Obama jokes with Clooney at star's gala fundraiser
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:42AM May 11, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — George Clooney played the suave host, chef Wolfgang Puck whipped up something for dinner and President Barack Obama and about 150 of his Hollywood-set donors enjoyed a few laughs at Clooney's good-humored expense.
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Judge rejects effort to open CIA volume on Cuba
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:27AM May 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA's three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product.
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Biden Apologizes to Obama For Gay Marriage Announcement
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Vice President Joe Biden gestures during a speech on college spending on April 3, 2012, at Maury High School in Norfolk, Va.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sorry, Mr. President.
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Guinness recognizes surfer for riding 78-foot wave
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50AM May 11, 2012 CommentHONOLULU (AP) — Dude, that was the gnarliest wave ever. Guinness World Records says so.
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Flight academy camp teaches teens math, science
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22AM May 11, 2012 CommentPENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) — The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room — one of the aircraft carrier's young pilots was in trouble.
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Cashman not ideal gov't witness in Clemens case
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:51AM May 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — No one worked harder than Roger Clemens. He would will himself to win. The New York Yankees traded for him after winning the World Series because they didn't want complacency to set in.
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Gay rights backers see history in Obama's stand
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:03AM May 11, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a man beaten to death because of his sexuality said words couldn't express her gratitude. An 82-year-old photographer who chronicled protests in the 1960s called it "a new dawn."
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Obama touts gay marriage stance with top donors
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:22PM May 10, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling major Hollywood donors that his decision to support same-sex marriage is a logical extension of where he believes America ought to be.
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Minn. Senate vote clears Vikings for new stadium
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:10PM May 10, 2012 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After a plan to build the Minnesota Vikings a new home cleared its final hurdle Thursday in the state Senate, the team executive who spent much of the past decade lobbying for the nearly $1 billion stadium could hardly contain himself.
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Horst Faas, AP combat photographer, dies at 79
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:39PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.
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Poll shows Americans' pessimism on economy growing
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:31PM May 10, 2012 Comment (1)WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and handling it remains President Barack Obama's weak spot and biggest challenge in his bid for a second term, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
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Civil rights lawsuit filed against Ariz. sheriff
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:22PM May 10, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law.
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Prosecution rests in John Edwards trial
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:05PM May 10, 2012 CommentGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising politician's infidelity and the secret money they say he used to cover up the affair he feared would derail his presidential ambitions.
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Gunman dies, 2 officers shot on Florida's Turnpike
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:59PM May 10, 2012 CommentHOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who apparently fired a weapon while walking on a median of the busy Florida's Turnpike has been killed in a shootout that wounded two South Florida law enforcement officers.
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Jury in Hudson family slayings case requests video
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:36PM May 10, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Jurors deliberating in the case of the man charged with murdering Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew asked Friday to re-watch video footage shown during the trial.
