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Security fence erected where Ohio women held
An imposing, 10-foot privacy fence has been erected around the home of a Cleveland rape and kidnapping suspect charged with holding three women captive for about a decade.
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Pa. abortion clinic deaths jury split on 2 counts
A Philadelphia jury says it's deadlocked on two counts in the murder trial of a longtime abortion provider.
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2 San Antonio jailers fight, 1 taken to hospital
Two detention officers at a South Texas jail have gotten into a fight, and one has been sent to the hospital.
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Women rescued in Cleveland happy to be home
The three women allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused for years inside a padlocked Cleveland house asked for privacy Sunday, saying through an attorney that while they are grateful for overwhelming support, they also need time to heal.
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Holmes asking judge to change plea to insanity
The long journey toward a verdict in the deadly Colorado theater shootings enters a new and critical phase Monday when suspect James Holmes asks a judge to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Brother's arrest stuns Calif. town in girl's death
People in this quiet Northern California community expressed relief that there had been an arrest in the stabbing death of an 8-year-old girl, but they were stunned by the suspect: her 12-year-old brother.
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4 children, 2 adults die in eastern Pa. house fire
Authorities have identified the four children and two adults killed in an eastern Pennsylvania house fire. A neighbor says the children's mother was doing laundry down the street at her house at the time and survived.
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Police vow to solve shootings of 19 in New Orleans
Video released early Monday by New Orleans police shows a possible suspect in the Mother's Day gunfire that wounded 19 people during a neighborhood parade.
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4 children, 2 adults die in eastern Pa. house fire
Four children and two adults were found dead in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania early Monday morning after neighbors heard cries for help but were turned back by heavy flames.
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End may near for Calif. evangelical radio network
The end may be near for a California evangelical radio network used by a preacher to predict _ incorrectly _ the apocalypse.
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Crucial decision in Iraq murders court martial
A military judge at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington could decide Monday whether an Army sergeant who fatally shot five fellow service members in Iraq acted with premeditation.
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OJ bid for new trial starting in Las Vegas court
The last time O.J. Simpson was in a Las Vegas courtroom, he stood next to defense attorney Yale Galanter before being handcuffed and hauled off to prison for up to 33 years.
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Huge drug cost disparities seen in health overhaul
Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn.
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Monday last day for morning-after pill appeal
The government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill.
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Senator: Obama should 'condemn' IRS targeting
Republicans say the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups was "chilling", and at least one Republican senator called on President Barack Obama to "personally condemn" the actions.
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4 children, 2 adults die in eastern Pa. house fire
Four children and two adults were found dead in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania early Monday morning and authorities were searching for the cause.
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Suspect in 4 Kan. farm deaths to appear in court
The man charged with killing four people on an eastern Kansas farm is set to appear in court Monday afternoon.
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Benghazi depositions to examine Clinton's role
The Republican chairman of the House oversight panel is asking a veteran diplomat and a former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff for sworn testimony about their investigation into the deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
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Report: Detroit's finances crumbling; future bleak
Detroit is broke and faces a bleak future given the precarious financial path it's on, according to a new report out by the city's state-appointed emergency manager.
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4 children, 2 adults die in eastern Pa. house fire
Four children and two adults were found dead in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania early Monday morning and authorities were searching for the cause.
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