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Obama's intel team: Blair and Panetta
The Swampby Greg Miller President-elect Barack Obama formally introduced his choices to lead the U.S. intelligence community on Friday, nominating retired U.S. Navy Admiral Dennis C. Blair to serve as director of national intelligence, and former California...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Rights, International Military Interventions, Terrorism, Justice and Rights
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More taxpayer-funded lawyers sought for poor
A lawyer for poor defendants in Baltimore told Maryland's highest court today that his clients and others like them are entitled to taxpayer-funded lawyers at bail hearings held within 24 hours of their arrest. Should a majority of the court agree, the...Tags: Maryland, Defendants, Lawyers, Court Administration, Justice System
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Baltimore mayor indicted on theft, perjury charges; accused of accepting gifts from developers
Associated Press WriterBALTIMORE (AP) — Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted Friday on charges that she accepted illegal gifts during her time as mayor and City Council president, including travel, fur coats and gift cards intended for the poor that she allegedly used...Tags: Video Games, Electronics, American Express Company, Values, Annapolis
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Man faces obstruction charge in father's death
Authorities have charged a northeast Iowa man with obstruction of prosecution, saying he failed to cooperate with an investigation into his father's death. Police charged Nathan McKinney on Friday, two days after he testified in the first degree-...Tags: Trials, Iowa, Murder, Crimes
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Detroit mom, 2 others face trial in sex-party case
A woman accused of hosting a party at her Detroit home where men could pay for lap dances and sex is headed to trial. District Judge Ronald Giles on Friday ordered the 34-year-old woman bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court for trial on charges of...Tags: Trials, Lawyers, Court Administration, Justice System
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AP top news in Iowa at 4:58 p.m. CST
Gov. Chet Culver said Friday he will ask the Legislature next week to use the state's bonding power to pay for a major new program to repair flood damage and fix Iowa's aging infrastructure. In an interview with The Associated Press, Culver said it...Tags: Court Administration, Colleges and Universities, Floods, Casino and Gambling Industry, Tourism and Leisure
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Charges dropped against ex-Reagan budget director
Associated Press WriterFederal prosecutors dropped charges Friday against former Reagan budget director David Stockman, who was accused of overseeing a sweeping fraud at a troubled auto parts supplier that he led before the company collapsed into bankruptcy. The U.S....Tags: Fraud, Securities, Car Repair, Bankruptcy, Budgets and Budgeting
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Son of former Liberian president gets 97 years in prison for torture
The Associated PressThe son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga imposed the sentence on Charles McArthur Emmanuel, 31, who...Tags: Punishment, Defendants, Metal and Mineral, Abusive Behavior, United Nations
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Shiite activist in Bahrain says he was summoned on suspicion of inciting against regime
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A leading Shiite human rights activist in Bahrain said he was summoned Friday by Bahrain's state prosecutors on suspicion of inciting against the kingdom's Sunni rulers. Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja said he was interrogated for four...Tags: Human Rights
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Ex-'Sopranos' actor gets 10 years for botched burglary that ended with NY police death
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) — A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. A jury acquitted Lillo Brancato Jr. of second-degree...Tags: Punishment, Drug Trafficking, Bars and Clubs, Assault, Court Administration
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Actor Ryan O'Neal pleads guilty to drug charge, sentenced to drug diversion program
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O'Neal has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. He entered the plea in a Malibu courtroom Friday morning and was ordered into an 18-month drug diversion program. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says the...Tags: Trials, Drug Trafficking, Celebrity, Los Angeles, Farrah Fawcett
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Pastor arrested in teen-sex case
Sentinel Staff WriterA pastor at a Wildwood church has been arrested and charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a teenaged girl. Michael Kennedy, 51, of Mount Dora, was charged with two counts of sexual battery. He was released from the Lake County jail after posting $20,...Tags: Mount Dora, Christianity, Anglican, Sexual Assault, Police Arrests
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