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SEATTLE – A new study is finding encouraging results for a first-of-its-kind Seattle program that aims to keep low-level drug offenders and prostitutes out of jail. The University of Washington review released Wednesday says participants in the program were up to 60 percent less likely to be arrested in the …

LOS ANGELES – The religious controversy surroundingMel Gibson’s (search)yet-to-be released The Passion is reminiscent of 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese. Gibson’s film, which depicts the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ, between the night of the Last Supper and his death— known …

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Authorities say the caregivers of an 82-year-old woman allowed her to sit in the same chair, not moving for six months, until she died earlier this year. Prosecutors are deciding whether to charge Barbara Beam’s caregivers in her Jan. 2 death at her house in Greenville. She …