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Police: Suspect in 4 Calif. homeless men linked to 2 more deaths

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:11pm MST

An ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Southern California has been linked to the stabbing deaths of a woman and her son, police said Thursday.
Teen deported in error: 'I made ... horrible mistakes'

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:00pm MST

Jakadrien Turner has a message for other girls thinking about running away from home: It’s just not worth it.
Too crazy to kill? Supreme Court might decide

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:17pm MST

Defense attorneys say that when Edwin Hart Turner killed two people in a gas station robbery, he was mentally unbalanced, and they want the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his execution.
Document: NYPD sought to spy on Muslims

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:03pm MST

The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, the AP reports.
School playground 'rape tag' sparks alarm

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:35pm MST

Freeze tag during recess seldom raises eyebrows, but a variation of the game known as “rape tag” at a Minnesota elementary school has alarmed administrators and parents.
Mystery teen illness grows in upstate NY, more cases reported

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:33pm MST

Three more teens and a 36-year-old nurse have been stricken by the same symptoms first observed in 12 teenage girls.
Lesbian couple: Catholic college's alumni contest rejects love story

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:32pm MST

A contest by St. Joseph’s University’s Alumni Association to share the stories of how alumni couples met is raising allegations that the Catholic university is discriminating against same-sex alumni.
Complaint about accused ex-teacher made years ago

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:11pm MST

A longtime Los Angeles teacher accused of bizarre acts of lewd conduct and taking photographs of children was investigated in 1994 for allegedly trying to fondle a 10-year-old girl, according to authorities.
Teen pageant winner loses title for being 20 days too old

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:41pm MST

Aspen Brito won the Jr. Miss Antelope Valley Pageant but was stripped of the title after another contestant's parent complained about her age.
Law schools sued over job-placement claims

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:33pm MST

Fifty law school graduates from across the country are suing their schools, alleging they were misled about job prospects and burdened with huge amounts of student debt.
Lawsuit: Gulf oil spill still leaking after 7 years

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:21pm MST

Environmental groups on Thursday sued an oil company over the pace of its cleanup of a Gulf of Mexico spill that continues seven years after it was triggered by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
Marrow donor case involving fashion models settled

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:20pm MST

Massachusetts officials have announced an agreement that requires a bone marrow registry and medical laboratory agency that hired fashion models to recruit donors to pay $520,000.
Verisign, at Web's core, hacked: What does it mean to you?

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:57pm MST

It should be clear by now that nothing online is sacred, and no security company is safe from hackers.
Bishop Long crowned 'king in God's government'

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:33pm MST

Bishop Eddie Long, the subject of sexual allegations made by male members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, is making headlines again.
Under fire, Komen CEO denies politics in Planned Parenthood cuts

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:11pm MST

Nancy G. Brinker rejected accusations that the organization caved to political pressure in cutting ties to Planned Parenthood. She spoke to NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
$1 million lottery winner won't quit waitress job

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:07pm MST

One 21-year-old Florida waitress has no plans to quit her day job – even after winning a $1 million lottery prize.
Committee to Holder: 'Give us the documents'

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:25am MST

Committee to Holder: 'Give us the documents'
Committee to Holder: 'Give us the documents'

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:25am MST

Attorney general takes heat for government's role in a gun-smuggling program called Fast and Furious.
Bald suspect wanted for stealing Rogaine

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:26am MST

Police are looking for two men, one of whom is bald, caught on surveillance cameras stealing Rogaine from a CVS Pharmacy on Long Island. Authorities say the men walked into the CVS in Sayville on Dec.
Dallas gets some relief from historic drought

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:11am MST

For millions of residents in the Dallas area, one of the most severe droughts in Texas history is no longer a concern — for now.
Fla. teenage crash survivor won't be deported

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:30am MST

Immigration officials say the lone survivor of a family killed in a mile-long pileup along Interstate 75 on Sunday south of Gainesville, Fla. will not be deported. Relatives who want Lidiane Carmo, 15, to live with them in the United States feared she may be deported.
More than a foot of snow forecast for Denver area

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:15am MST

One of the few snowy stormfronts so far this winter is about to hit the central U.S., but snow-starved areas in the north -- from Minnesota to New England -- won't be getting any.
550 abuse claims filed against Milwaukee Archdiocese

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:53am MST

About 550 people are asking for restitution for alleged sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee — more than in any of the other U.S. dioceses that have filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a lawyer involved in the Milwaukee case.
Deadly rabies fear after man shows off bat in box

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:24am MST

Health officials are warning people who were in downtown Providence last week that they may have been exposed to rabies when a man showed off a bat he had in a box.
Deadly rabies fear after man shows off bat in box

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:24am MST

Health officials are warning people who were in downtown Providence last week that they may have been exposed to rabies when a man showed off a bat he had in a box.
Feds' secret no-fly list more than doubles in a year

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:53am MST

The size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, The AP has learned.
Treasure hunter claims to have found $3 billion wreck

Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:43am MST

A treasure hunter claims he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship sunk off Cape Cod during World War II while allegedly carrying cargo now worth more than $3 billion.