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Ex-Detroit mayoral aide pleads guilty in scandal
Ex-mayoral aide Christine Beatty pleaded guilty Monday in a text-messaging sex scandal with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that gripped the city for nearly a year. She will spend four months in jail.
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FBI: Birmingham Mayor arrested on federal charges
The mayor of Alabama's largest city, a player in a multibillion dollar sewer bond deal that drove the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy, was arrested on Monday on federal criminal charges, an FBI spokesman said.
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Juror didn't feel defendant expected teen's death
The jury forewoman in the internet suicide trial said she didn't feel the defendant expected the teenage victim would harm herself after being subjected to an Internet hoax.
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Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted
The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.
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Customers stew as kosher meat gets scarce
Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.
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Study shows families' financial strain from autism
More than half a million U.S. children have autism with costly health care needs that often put an unprecedented financial strain on their families, national data show.
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Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California
Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station.
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Federal judges to rule on Calif. prison crowding
California's day of reckoning has finally come for three decades of tough-on-crime policies that led to overcrowded prisons and unconstitutional conditions for inmates.
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Refill of vanished Wis. lake about to begin
The road is back. The shoreline is reinforced. The dam is stronger. And maybe the dollar signs won't be far behind.
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The week in photosA look at the top news, politics and sports stories of the week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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Gallery: Black Friday shoppingA look at shoppers across the country on Black Friday.
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The week in entertainmentA look at the top entertainment stories this week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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Apex vs. Wake Forest-Rolesville (November 28, 2008)Wake Forest-Rolesville beat Apex 35-7 in the third round of the NCHSAA 4-AA playoffs.
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Slideshow: Hillside vs. Southeast Raleigh (November 28, 2008)Hillside beat Southeast Raleigh 30-12 in the third round of the NCHSAA 4-A playoffs.
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