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Texan gets 20-year prison term for al-Qaida links
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A Texas man convicted of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to give al-Qaida restricted military documents, GPS equipment and money was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison _ the maximum punishment he could receive.
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NJ casino carjacking couple sentenced to decades
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A woman who pleaded guilty in the carjacking and murder of an Atlantic City casino patron cried as she apologized for not stopping it.
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Ohio teen to be tried as adult in school shooting
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A 17-year-old boy will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday.
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Fire on nuclear sub in Maine slightly hurts 7
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Officials at a Maine shipyard are preparing to ventilate a nuclear submarine so that people can get inside to assess damage from a fire.
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14-year-old Texan wins National Geographic Bee
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A first-time National Geographic Bee contender from Texas has won the annual competition in Washington.
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US deportee's lawyer denies war crimes allegation
27 mins ago
A Nevada immigration lawyer who fought the deportation of a former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a role in a 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims says his client is no war criminal.
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Jury in John Edwards trial asks for 20 exhibits
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The jury in the John Edwards campaign-finance fraud trial is asking to see about 20 more evidence exhibits during its fifth day of deliberations.
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Monsignor: I didn't put list of predators in safe
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A Roman Catholic church official says he typed a list of 35 accused predator-priests on his computer, but couldn't find it 10 years later to show a Philadelphia grand jury.
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Iowa man with zebra, parrot in truck gets DUI
An Iowa man stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck has been charged with drunken driving.
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Panel examining flaws in food-for-troops contract
The Pentagon and the company that supplies U.S. troops in Afghanistan with food and water are locked in a billion-dollar billing dispute that illustrates the flawed management of contracts for battlefield support, ...
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Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis
A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, ...
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