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Associated Press Workers board up the house Saturday where three women were held in Cleveland. Suspect Ariel Castro, who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade, is charged with rape and kidnapping.
Recovery just beginning for victims
Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare. Now, for the women...
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Associated Press Internal Revenue Service (Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies Aug. 2 in Washington before the House Oversight Committee. A top IRS official said Friday that the agency inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
IRS shamed for ‘inappropriate’ targeting
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were viol...
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Bloodless bank heist nets substantial score
NEW YORK — A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime analysts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off...
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Associated Press Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. Consulate's burned-out buildings in September in Benghazi, Libya. Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission, expressing concerns that Congress might criticize the Obama administration for ignoring warnings of a growing threat in Benghazi.
State Department sought to hide Libyan warnings
WASHINGTON — Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and ot...
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Administration defends emails on attacks
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says now-discredited talking points about the deadly attacks in Libya are being taken out of context — as are emails seeking to revise the talking points. S...
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FTC puts background check sites on notice
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Tuesday warned several companies that the quick, easy background checks they are providing online might violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The Federal Trad...
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Texas launches probe into plant explosion
WACO, Texas — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treati...
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Spacewalk plans to fix station leak
WASHINGTON — Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station. The leak in a cooling system was ...
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Associated Press O.J. Simpson speaks during his sentencing in December 2008 at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson is heading back to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading five men in an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial.
OJ throws ‘Hail Mary’ for re-trial
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his...
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Associated Press Deborah Knight (center), grandmother of Michelle Knight, drives her wheelchair Friday past the home of Gina DeJesus in Cleveland. Michelle Knight was freed from the home of Ariel Castro along with DeJesus and Amanda Berry on Monday. They were held captive for a decade.
Relatives: Castro had violent streak
CLEVELAND — The mannequin was life-sized, with a mop-like wig and creepy, slanted eyes. Ariel Castro kept it propped against a wall of his house and liked to use it to scare people. Sometimes he dr...
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