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Blaze hits Baltimore adult entertainment district

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:01 PM PST

Firefighters are battling a multi-alarm blaze in a row of strip clubs in downtown Baltimore.

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Elizabeth Edwards seriously ill with cancer

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:01 PM PST

Elizabeth Edwards is seriously ill and doctors say further treatment for her cancer would be unproductive.

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Utah lottery winners keep winning ticket in safe

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:01 PM PST

A family holding an Idaho Lottery ticket worth $1 million wasn't taking any chances while traveling from their home in Brigham City, Utah,to claim their winnings in Boise.

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Elizabeth Edwards seriously ill with cancer

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:01 PM PST

Elizabeth Edwards is seriously ill and doctors say further treatment for her cancer would be unproductive.

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Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:01 PM PST

NY agency sued over GPS tracker on worker's car

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:40 PM PST

The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the state on behalf of a labor department worker who was fired after investigators used a GPS device to track his car and show he falsified his time sheets.

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Obama to meet with Democratic leaders

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST

Officials say President Barack Obama is about to meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders to firm up their strategy before negotiating with Republicans over extending tax cuts and jobless benefits.

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Schools, lawmakers cut sabbaticals to trim costs

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 11:50 AM PST

Under pressure to cut costs, state universities and lawmakers across the nation are going after one of the oldest traditions in the academic world: the professor's cherished sabbatical.

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Warrant: NC sailor looked to sell military secrets

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 11:40 AM PST

A search warrant says a U.S. Navy sailor stationed at Fort Bragg sold classified documents to someone he thought worked for a foreign government.

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Ex-suspect testifies in AIM activist slaying trial

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 11:01 AM PST

A former suspect in the slaying of an American Indian Movement activist has testified in the trial of the man accused of shooting her, saying he doesn't remember much about the night prosecutors say he met her.

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Correction: Lobster Trap Trees

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:40 AM PST

In a story Dec. 5 about Christmas trees being made out of lobster traps, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the last name of a man who has has written about the trees on his blog, Good Morning Gloucester. The man's name is Joey Ciaramitaro, not Ciaramicato.

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Germany doubles money to aging Holocaust survivors

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:30 AM PST

The German government has agreed to double the money it provides for the at-home care of aging victims of the Holocaust, increasing it to 110 million euros ($146 million) worldwide for 2011, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced Monday.

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Japan, India pressed to curb child abductions

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:20 AM PST

Japan and India are among America's most prized allies. Yet to scores of embittered parents across the U.S., they are outlaw states when it comes to the wrenching phenomenon of international child abduction.

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GOP candidate concedes in NY state Senate race

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:19 AM PST

New York Republican Bob Cohen has conceded defeat to Democratic incumbent Suzi Oppenheimer after a recount of Nov. 2 election results in a state Senate race. Still Republicans insist they will control the New York Senate in January.

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Case alleging sodomy by police emerges in NY court

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:41 AM PST

A Wall Street financial worker says New York City police officers responding to a noisy domestic dispute in 2004 sodomized him with a baton, allegations that recall the more notorious cases of a Brooklyn tattoo parlor employee in 2008 and Haitian immigrant Abner Louima a decade earlier.

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3 who admitted to CA teen torture get 30 years

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:41 AM PST

Three adults who admitted to holding captive and torturing a 16-year-old boy inside a Central California home for more than a year are each headed to prison for at least 30 years.

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NH man admits hacking woman, girl, claims insanity

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:41 AM PST

A 21-year-old man admitted in court Monday that he hacked a mother to death and seriously wounded her young daughter during a 2009 home invasion but said he was insane when he did it.

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Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:41 AM PST

Lawyer wants video of Conn. boy's Uzi death barred

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:41 AM PST

A lawyer for a former Massachusetts police chief charged with manslaughter in the accidental Uzi shooting death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair has asked a judge to exclude a graphic videotape of the shooting.

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Mich. woman may sue over toilet paper dispenser

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:30 AM PST

A Michigan woman whose hand was broken while she was reaching for toilet paper can sue a restaurant over her injury.

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