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    New indictment in AIM slaying days after dismissal (AP)
    AP - A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:58:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mom says at KC trial she waited for girl to die (AP)
    AP - The mother of a little girl long known as "Precious Doe" testified Tuesday she knew the injured 3-year-old needed medical attention but that she feared going to jail and instead waited for the child to die. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:19:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Gay candidates anticipate breakthroughs on Nov. 4 (AP)
    AP - In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov. 4 in a congressional race would be a historic milestone and, he hopes, send an encouraging message to gay and lesbian young people nationwide. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Navy blames crew, command for fire aboard carrier (AP)
    AP - A fire aboard the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier resulted from a failure to properly store hazardous materials and other missteps that allowed the fire to burn unchecked for more than eight hours, Navy investigators found. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:40:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man accused of binding teen's hands on flight (AP)
    AP - A 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly binding the hands of a teenager sitting next to him on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to tape her older sister's hands as well. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:13:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Simpson's future now hangs on armed robbery appeal (AP)

    Co-defendants Clarence 'C.J.' Stewart and O. J. Simpson, second from right standing, and their defense teams listen as the two are found guilty on all 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of double murder charges. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool)AP - O.J. Simpson's attorneys in his armed robbery case could be fighting long odds to convince an appeals court that he was a victim of racial prejudice and payback for his murder acquittal, legal experts say, but there may be other grounds for a new trial.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:25:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ill. gov to convicted fundraiser: Tell the truth (AP)
    AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday called on Antoin "Tony" Rezko to tell the truth, a day after federal prosecutors strongly hinted that the political fundraiser, convicted in a state corruption scandal, might be cooperating in their investigation. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:39:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Pa. widow sues US over Iraq vet-husband's suicide (AP)
    AP - The widow of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide while in outpatient care for depression at a Veterans Administration hospital is suing the federal government for alleged negligence. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:47:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Iowa AG decision means Chicago cop will be freed (AP)

    This undated photo, supplied by the Iowa Department of Corrections, shows Chicago police officer Michael Mette, who is serving a five-year sentence in an Iowa prison cell after being convicted of assault causing serious injuries. The charges stem from a 2005 fight in which Mette punched Dubuque student Jake Gothard, who suffered a broken nose, cheek and jaw.  The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, ordered that Mette be freed from prison.  In its ruling Wednesday the appeals court says there wasn't enough evidence for a Dubuque County district court judge to find that Mette could have retreated from the altercation on Oct. 9, 2005, in Dubuque. (AP Photo/ Iowa Department of Corrections, File)AP - A Chicago police officer could be released within days after the Iowa attorney general's office announced Tuesday it would not seek a state Supreme Court review of his case.


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    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:06:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law (AP)
    AP - A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl's home state, Nebraska health officials said. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:41:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    300 suspected illegal immigrants caught in SC raid (AP)

    Santa Maria Diego, 68, center, is comforted by her granddaughter, Maria Juan, right, after Diego was released at The House of Raeford's Columbia Farms chicken plant Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008, in Greenivlle, S.C. Some 300 suspected illegal immigrants were detained by federal agents at the chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Federal agents swept through a chicken processing plant Tuesday, detaining more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, sending panicked workers running and screaming through the hallways. Worried relatives collected outside, fearful their loved ones would be deported.


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    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:45:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Body found in suitcase contained 50 heroin packets (AP)
    AP - An autopsy has revealed that a man found dead in a suitcase in a suburban park was a drug "mule" who had 50 packets of heroin in his body and probably died when one or two of them broke open. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:24:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Girls strip-searched at Mich. school, parents say (AP)
    AP - Three seventh-grade girls at a school in Monroe were ordered to strip to their underwear while a teacher investigated the alleged theft of $42, their parents charge. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:57:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    1998 school shooter pleads guilty to theft charges (AP)

    In this photo released by by the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Fayetteville, Ark., Mitchell Johnson is shown Jan. 1, 2007. Johnson, who served time as a boy in juvenile detention for the Jonesboro school shootings of a teacher and four students, faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft and marijuana possession.  Johnson, now 24, entered his plea Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008,  before a Benton County circuit judge. Sentencing was set for Nov. 14.   (AP Photo/Washington County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - One of two young men who killed four students and a teacher at a middle school a decade ago faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft and marijuana possession.


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    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:35:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Rezko sentencing date canceled as deal sought (AP)

    In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail  in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - A federal judge canceled convicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's sentencing date Wednesday and one of his lawyers said he is working with federal prosecutors in hopes of getting a break for his client.


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    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:06:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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