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2 plead guilty in Miss. chemotherapy fraud case

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT

A cancer doctor and a billing agent have pleaded guilty to charges related to a scheme to dilute chemotherapy drugs as part of multimillion dollar health care fraud.

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Houston-area rain floods homes, may end drought

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Officials say historic rainfall levels that drenched the Houston area this week flooded dozens of homes but probably also resulted in the end of drought conditions in Southeast Texas.

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Prosecutor: Fla. teen not insane in girl's beating

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT

A Florida prosecutor is urging jurors to reject the insanity defense for a 17-year-old boy accused in the kicking and stomping attack on a girl outside a middle school.

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Judge upholds payments in Russian adoption

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT

The Tennessee woman who ended her Russian adoption by sending the 7-year-old boy to Moscow on a plane by himself has lost her bid to get a judge to set aside an order that she pay child support.

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Texas: State voter ID law does not discriminate

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Lawyers for the state of Texas argued Friday that a contentious voter ID law should go forward because it doesn't limit minorities' right to vote and, therefore, does not violate the federal Voting Rights Act.

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US diplomats seek changes to insider trading rule

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT

American diplomats are asking to be exempted from parts of a law that bans members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job.

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George Zimmerman asks for new judge again

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT

The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin is again asking for a new judge.

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Thomson Reuters comes out against gay marriage ban

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT

The legal and business information company Thomson Reuters has come out against an amendment to ban gay marriage in Minnesota.

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UN expects to provide food to 850,000 Syrians

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT

The United Nations and its partners in Syria have stepped up their humanitarian operation and expect to provide food to 850,000 people this month compared to 200,000 people in April -- but they are running out of money.

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Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Uzbek man gets more than 15 years for Obama threat

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:28 PM PDT

A federal judge in Alabama has sentenced a man from Uzbekistan to more than 15 years in prison for plotting to kill President Barack Obama.

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2-faced kitten dies in RI; had 4 eyes, 24 toes

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT

A kitten with two faces born days ago in Rhode Island has died. His name was Gemini. He had four eyes, two noses, two mouths, two ears and 24 toes -- seven on each front paw and five each on the back.

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Ex-intelligence official sentenced to 20 months

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT

The former acting intelligence director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Homeland Security Department has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for defrauding the government of more than $180,000.

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2 charged with trying to export material to Iran

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Two men have been charged with trying to illegally export nuclear-related material to Iran that could be used in gas centrifuges to enrich uranium, the Justice Department announced Friday.

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Ind. woman sentenced to prison in baby theft try

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

A western Indiana woman who acknowledged that she stabbed a couple while trying to kidnap their month-old son so she could pass the boy off as her own was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison.

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Landslide hits Canada town; 4 thought missing

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

Four people were believed to be missing Friday after a wall of rock, mud and trees cascaded down the side of a mountain, flattening several homes in a tiny western Canada community.

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Faithful see Virgin Mary in tree, flock to NJ city

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT

People are flocking to a tree in northern New Jersey where some say they see the image of the Virgin Mary.

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Officers plead not guilty in death of homeless man

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

A Southern California police officer and a former officer have pleaded not guilty in the beating death of a mentally ill homeless man.

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Trial ordered for ex-wife in boiling water attack

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

A judge has ordered trial for a Northern California woman charged with pouring boiling water on her sleeping ex-husband in a jealous rage over another woman.

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CEO of troubled Iowa brokerage arrested, charged

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

The chief executive officer of an Iowa-based brokerage firm admitted in a suicide note that he carried out an elaborate fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $100 million from customers over nearly two decades, federal investigators said Friday.

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