JACKSON, Mississippi – A reputed Ku Klux Klansman will remain in prison after a federal appeals court ruled Friday that his conviction shouldn’t have been thrown out in the kidnappings of two black teenagers who were slain in 1964. James Ford Seale, 73, was found guilty in June 2007 of …
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OREGON CITY, Ore. – A judge on Monday rejected defense arguments that claimed selective and vindictive prosecution in the manslaughter trial of a couple whose 15-month-old daughter died of pneumonia while they prayed for her recovery. Clackamas County Circuit Judge Steven Maurer told lawyers for Carl and Raylene Worthington that …
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BERLIN – “There is such a lot of unbelievable things here,” 27 year-old Jay Baumgarten told me. Jay was the first newcomer from the East I spoke with in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago. It was an incredible moment. For decades East Berlin had been …
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That was a long deal Wednesday night, was it not? But I have to say the president delivered the speech very well. He seemed relaxed and in charge. Now because I am a simple man, I’m going to break the State of the Union down in a very basic way. …
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“There is no education like adversity.” — Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister twice during the 1800s. His simple words have eternal and profound meaning. We are judged by what we are able to conquer or overcome. World War II is a pristine example of this …
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A blind phone hacker from the Boston area just turned 19 — and will be spending the next 11 years in federal prison. Matthew Weigman, a.k.a. “Li’l Hacker,” of Revere, Mass., was sentenced to 135 months by a federal judge in Dallas Friday, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to retaliate …
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Drugmakers are on track to have a vaccine against the new H1N1 strain of flu ready for the northern hemisphere autumn after receiving seed virus samples, company officials said on Wednesday. Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Solvay all said their vaccine teams had obtained the new influenza A (H1N1) seed virus …
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“Hills” star Stephanie Pratt is opening up about her struggle with bulimia and the agony of working with her skinny co-stars, all while posing in a bikini on the cover of Us magazine. The 23-year-old star – and sister to reality television’s most hated man Spencer Pratt – says the …
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LOS ANGELES – Hollywood nursed another big weekend hangover. The Warner Bros. comedy “The Hangover” hauled in $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The tale of a Las Vegas bachelor party gone to extremes raised its total to $105.4 …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state radio says the country’s parliament has approved a bill earmarking $20 million to support militant groups opposing the West. It was not immediately clear which groups would receive funding from Iran, but Tehran already backs the Islamic militants Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the …
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