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DUI charges filed against limo driver after prom
A limousine driver who was allegedly drunk when he drove more than 20 suburban Chicago teenagers to a prom says he wasn't intoxicated and that mechanical problems caused his erratic driving.
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Va. entrepreneur caught in growing political drama
Lavish gifts and political donations have whisked a car salesman turned serial entrepreneur into the center of a growing scandal dogging Virginia's two top Republicans.
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Ohio suspect's brothers: Hope he 'rots in jail'
The two brothers of the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade say they have no sympathy for him. One called him a "monster" who he hopes "rots in jail."
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US government files morning-after pill appeal
The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.
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Police vow to solve shootings of 19 in New Orleans
A medical student who witnessed the shooting that wounded 19 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans says it was hard to tell whether the gunman was picking targets randomly or was trying to hit specific people.
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Judge delays decision on Holmes insanity plea
Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect told a judge Monday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge won't immediately rule on whether to allow it.
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Obama says he won't tolerate political bias at IRS
President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency's admitted targeting of conservative groups.
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OJ returns to Las Vegas court in bid for new trial
O.J. Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.
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Obama: Targeting by IRS is 'outrageous'
President Barack Obama says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups is "outrageous" and anyone involved needs to be "held fully accountable."
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Future of house where Ohio victims held debated
An imposing, 10-foot privacy fence has been erected to guard the home of Cleveland rape and kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro, with windows and doors boarded shut to keep people out of the place that police say was once meant only to keep people in.
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Guide to Philadelphia abortion doctor murder case
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial, charged with murder, in the deaths of a female patient and four babies prosecutors say were born alive at the abortion clinic he ran. A look at key facts in the case:
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Pa. abortion clinic deaths jury split on 2 counts
Jurors in the murder trial of a longtime Philadelphia abortion provider said Monday that they were divided on two of the more than 200 counts in the case, but the judge asked them to try again to reach a unanimous verdict.
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Landmark $240M EEOC verdict to be slashed to $1.6M
A landmark $240 million verdict awarded to 32 mentally disabled Iowa plant workers who were subjected to years of abuse by their handlers will be reduced to just $1.6 million because of a federal cap, attorneys in the case agree.
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NJ ex-trooper get probation for high-speed escort
A judge has sentenced a former New Jersey state trooper who led a high-speed escort of luxury sports cars to one year of probation.
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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, a newspaper reported.
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US government files morning-after pill appeal
The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-second appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.
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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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Judge delays decision on Holmes insanity plea
Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect told a judge Monday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge won't rule on whether to allow that yet.
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Va. entrepreneur caught in growing political drama
When Jonnie R. Williams believed he had discovered a way to make tobacco less harmful, the Virginia car salesman-turned-entrepreneur tried to sell his method to anyone who would listen.
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4 kids, 2 adults dead in Pa. fire on Mother's Day
Fire tore through a family's eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother's Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while their mother was across the street doing laundry at a friend's house.
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