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- Jury ends day without verdict in ex-Senator Edwards' trial
- U.S. Catholic groups sue to block contraception mandate
- Colombia prostitution scandal sparks U.S. DEA staff probe
- Foundation objects to auction of purported vial of Reagan's blood
- IRS widens taxpayer debt forgiveness program
- Chinese vitamin C maker to settle antitrust lawsuit
- Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls
- Student found safe after two days missing in Yosemite
- U.S. task force: End routine prostate cancer screening
- Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says
- Computer hackers access U.S. Justice Department website: spokeswoman
- Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says
- Former Rutgers student gets 30 days jail for bias crime
- Judge rejects part of IndyMac fraud case
- Ohio man gets six years for plot to smuggle money to Hezbollah
- California college student goes missing in Yosemite
- Record California school districts in "financial jeopardy"
- Dogged by "bully" charge, nuclear chief Jaczko resigns
- U.S. states urge return of drug used in executions
- California Senate votes to allow self-driving cars
- Crews gain upper hand battling wildfires in Southwest
- Apple seeks support for new spaceship-like campus
- Ex-Haiti official gets U.S. prison for telecom bribery
- Four tons of pot found floating off California coast
- California college student goes missing in Yosemite
- Climber killed in McKinley fall identified as German
- Death penalty sought for Iraq war vet in California killings
- Key witness against Clemens says provided drugs to other players
- Mississippi prison under control after inmate riot
- Obama hails spirit rebuilding tornado-struck town
- Colombia prostitution scandal sparks U.S. DEA staff probe
- Chinese vitamin C maker to settle antitrust lawsuit
- Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says
- Foundation objects to auction of purported vial of Reagan's blood
- Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls
- Student found safe after two days missing in Yosemite
- U.S. lawmakers frustrated in Wal-Mart corruption probe
- IRS widens taxpayer debt forgiveness program
- Judge rejects part of IndyMac fraud case
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| U.S. Catholic groups sue to block contraception mandate Posted:
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| Colombia prostitution scandal sparks U.S. DEA staff probe Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service and military personnel ahead of a presidential visit has spawned a separate investigation of the behavior of drug enforcement agents in Cartagena, officials said on Monday. A spokesman for the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said in a statement that its investigators were probing "allegations about potential misconduct" by Drug Enforcement Administration staff. ... |
| Foundation objects to auction of purported vial of Reagan's blood Posted:
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| IRS widens taxpayer debt forgiveness program Posted:
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| Chinese vitamin C maker to settle antitrust lawsuit Posted: (Reuters) - A Chinese company has agreed to pay $10.5 million to U.S. purchasers of vitamin C who accused it of conspiring to raise prices by limiting exports, a proposed settlement showed. The proposed settlement, filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Monday, is the first in a long-running legal battle brought by commercial buyers of vitamin C against four Chinese companies. If it is approved by the judge overseeing the case, it would be the first civil settlement reached with a Chinese company under U.S. antitrust cartel law, lawyers for the purchasers said. ... |
| Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls Posted: BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A man survived a 174-foot (53-meter) plunge over Niagara's Horseshoe Falls on Monday but sustained life-threatening injuries, Canadian police said. The man, whose name has not been released, became only the third person known to have lived through a fall over the massive cataract without safety devices. Canada's Niagara Parks Police said witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a retaining wall about 20 feet above the brink of the falls at mid-morning and deliberately jump into the swift waters. ... |
| Student found safe after two days missing in Yosemite Posted:
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| U.S. task force: End routine prostate cancer screening Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A task force advising the U.S. government on Monday recommended against routine use of the prostate-cancer screening test called PSA, or prostate specific antigen, for lack of a discernible health benefit. Like a draft proposal last October, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gave PSA screening a D, for "don't recommend" in healthy men. The reaction was fast and furious. Screening advocates warned that the recommendation will cost lives, but critics of PSA testing said thousands of men will be spared impotence and incontinence as a result of needless cancer treatment. ... |
| Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says Posted: SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a National Security Agency facility under construction in Utah on Monday but investigators found nothing suspicious and declared the site safe, an FBI spokeswoman said. The spy agency facility is being built at Camp Williams, a military base just south of Salt Lake City. The Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the $1.2 billion project. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Bertram declined to say how the threat was received but said it led to an evacuation at the site. FBI agents spent several hours at the site after the threat was ... |
| Computer hackers access U.S. Justice Department website: spokeswoman Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One or more unauthorized users gained access to the inner workings of a website run by the U.S. Justice Department, a department spokeswoman said on Monday after the hacker group Anonymous said they were behind the incident. The hackers accessed a server that operates the Bureau of Justice Statistics' website, the spokeswoman said. The bureau is responsible for collecting and analyzing data about crime — including computer security incidents — from throughout the United States. ... |
| Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says Posted: (Reuters) - A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a National Security Agency facility under construction in Utah on Monday but investigators found nothing suspicious, an FBI spokeswoman said. The site for the spy agency is being built at Camp Williams, a military base just south of Salt Lake City. The Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the project. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Bertram declined to say how the threat was received but said it led to an evacuation at the site. FBI agents spent several hours at the site after the threat was received. "We found nothing suspicious," Bertram said. U.S. ... |
| Former Rutgers student gets 30 days jail for bias crime Posted:
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| Judge rejects part of IndyMac fraud case Posted: (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday dismissed parts of a securities fraud case against two top executives of failed mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp, according to a lawyer for one of the executives. U.S. District Judge Manuel Real in Los Angeles dismissed claims based on five of seven securities filings at issue in the case, a lawyer for former IndyMac chief executive Michael Perry said. The ruling substantially narrows the Securities and Exchange Commission's case against Perry and former finance chief Scott Keys ahead of a scheduled June trial. ... |
| Ohio man gets six years for plot to smuggle money to Hezbollah Posted: CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man was sentenced on Monday to more than six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to plans to ship $200,000 to the Muslim militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hor Akl, 39, of Toledo had pleaded guilty to planning to send the money inside a sport utility vehicle to Hezbollah to target Israel. Akl was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Carr in Toledo to 75 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement. He had pleaded guilty to five counts. ... |
| California college student goes missing in Yosemite Posted:
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| Record California school districts in "financial jeopardy" Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A record 188 school districts in California are in "financial jeopardy," the office of the state's top schools official said on Monday, just a week after Governor Jerry Brown warned of the potential for deep cuts in education spending. Another 61 local education agencies have been added since February by the state superintendent of public instruction's office to its list of districts with either negative or qualified certifications. Local education agencies include school districts, county offices of education and joint powers agencies. ... |
| Dogged by "bully" charge, nuclear chief Jaczko resigns Posted:
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| U.S. states urge return of drug used in executions Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifteen states asked the U.S. Justice Department on Monday for help in obtaining an anesthesia drug they use in executions but that a federal judge said in March was illegally imported. The dispute is playing out in a lawsuit over whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the authority to allow shipments of the sedative sodium thiopental into the country, even though the drug is not approved for U.S. use. The group of 15 state attorneys general said in a letter to U.S. ... |
| California Senate votes to allow self-driving cars Posted:
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| Crews gain upper hand battling wildfires in Southwest Posted:
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| Apple seeks support for new spaceship-like campus Posted:
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| Ex-Haiti official gets U.S. prison for telecom bribery Posted: MIAMI (Reuters) - A former senior telecommunications official in Haiti was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for accepting about $500,000 in bribes from two U.S. companies that secured lucrative long-distance phone contracts in the Caribbean nation. A jury unanimously found Jean Rene Duperval guilty in March in a case based on 2001-2005 dealings that involved several former officials who served under former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Duperval, a 45-year-old resident of Miramar, Florida, had faced up to 20 years imprisonment at his sentencing. U.S. ... |
| Four tons of pot found floating off California coast Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have recovered more than four tons of marijuana found bobbing in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast, in one of the largest known seizures of its kind on a maritime smuggling route increasingly used by Mexican drug traffickers. The U.S. Coast Guard received a call on Sunday from a boater about suspicious bales spotted floating about 12 miles off the coast of Orange County, south of Los Angeles, the U.S. Border Patrol said. The U.S. ... |
| California college student goes missing in Yosemite Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities combed California's Yosemite National Park on Monday for a 22-year-old college student who disappeared over the weekend after declining to join fellow students on a long back-country hike. John Paul Chaufan Field, a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, was last seen on Saturday morning in the Hetch Hetchy area of the nearly 1,200-square-mile (3,100-square-kilometre) park, Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said. ... |
| Climber killed in McKinley fall identified as German Posted: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A climber killed in a 1,100-foot (335-meter) fall on Alaska's Mount McKinley as he tried to retrieve a sliding backpack during an ascent of North America's tallest peak has been identified as a 49-year-old German man. Denali National Park officials said Steffen Machulka of Halle, Germany, fell down a ridge to his death on Friday after reaching for the backpack at the mountain's 16,200-foot (4,900-metre) level. ... |
| Death penalty sought for Iraq war vet in California killings Posted:
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| Key witness against Clemens says provided drugs to other players Posted:
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| Mississippi prison under control after inmate riot Posted: TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Authorities regained control of a privately owned prison in Mississippi on Monday after a 12-hour riot in which one guard was killed and nearly 20 other people were injured, prison officials said. Authorities took control of the 2,567-bed Adams County Correctional Center, a low-security prison in Natchez, Mississippi, that houses mostly illegal immigrants for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, at around 2:45 a.m. CDT, according to the Corrections Corporation of America, which owns and operates the facility. ... |
| Obama hails spirit rebuilding tornado-struck town Posted:
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| Colombia prostitution scandal sparks U.S. DEA staff probe Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service and military personnel ahead of a presidential visit has spawned a separate investigation of the behavior of drug enforcement agents in Cartagena, officials said on Monday. A spokesman for the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said in a statement that its investigators were probing "allegations about potential misconduct" by Drug Enforcement Administration staff. ... |
| Chinese vitamin C maker to settle antitrust lawsuit Posted: (Reuters) - A Chinese company has agreed to pay $10.5 million to U.S. purchasers of vitamin C who accused it of conspiring to raise prices by limiting exports, a proposed settlement showed. The proposed settlement, filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Monday, is the first in a long-running legal battle brought by commercial buyers of vitamin C against four Chinese companies. If it is approved by the judge overseeing the case, it would be the first civil settlement reached with a Chinese company under U.S. antitrust cartel law, lawyers for the purchasers said. ... |
| Bomb threat forces evacuation at Utah spy site, FBI says Posted: SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a National Security Agency facility under construction in Utah on Monday but investigators found nothing suspicious and declared the site safe, an FBI spokeswoman said. The spy agency facility is being built at Camp Williams, a military base just south of Salt Lake City. The Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the $1.2 billion project. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Bertram declined to say how the threat was received but said it led to an evacuation at the site. FBI agents spent several hours at the site after the threat was ... |
| Foundation objects to auction of purported vial of Reagan's blood Posted:
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| Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls Posted: BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A man survived a 174-foot (53-meter) plunge over Niagara's Horseshoe Falls on Monday but sustained life-threatening injuries, Canadian police said. The man, whose name has not been released, became only the third person known to have lived through a fall over the massive cataract without safety devices. Canada's Niagara Parks Police said witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a retaining wall about 20 feet above the brink of the falls at mid-morning and deliberately jump into the swift waters. ... |
| Student found safe after two days missing in Yosemite Posted:
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| U.S. lawmakers frustrated in Wal-Mart corruption probe Posted:
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| IRS widens taxpayer debt forgiveness program Posted:
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| Judge rejects part of IndyMac fraud case Posted: (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday dismissed parts of a securities fraud case against two top executives of failed mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp, according to a lawyer for one of the executives. U.S. District Judge Manuel Real in Los Angeles dismissed claims based on five of seven securities filings at issue in the case, a lawyer for former IndyMac chief executive Michael Perry said. The ruling substantially narrows the Securities and Exchange Commission's case against Perry and former finance chief Scott Keys ahead of a scheduled June trial. ... |
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