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ATF blames Texas church fires on serial arsonist
Recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were likely set by an individual or a group of people, federal authorities said Tuesday.
updated: 4 minutes ago

Court halts rules on Edwards sex tape retrieval
A North Carolina court has temporarily stopped the security rules that a judge issued for the retrieval of the John Edwards sex tape.
updated: 7 minutes ago

Evacuations under way for LA-area foothills
Homeowners in mud-ravaged foothill towns north of Los Angeles packed their cars and fled Tuesday as evacuation orders took hold and a new winter storm approached.
updated: 9 minutes ago

Police debate use of family DNA to ID suspects
Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion.
updated: 10 minutes ago

Killer talks of KS abortion doc's death on YouTube
The confessed killer of a Kansas abortion provider says he has no more sympathy for the doctor's surviving family than he would for that of a hit man.
updated: 11 minutes ago

Man charged in Detroit airport breach ordered held
A federal judge has ordered an Ohio man detained after authorities say he walked through a passenger screening checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport without a boarding pass, prompting an evacuation.
updated: 23 minutes ago

3 acquitted in Ohio teen's restraint death
A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.
updated: 24 minutes ago

State: Birth defect rate in CA town not unusual
State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of birth defects among infants in a San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the largest toxic waste dump in the West.
updated: 35 minutes ago

New endangered pronghorn site eyed in Arizona
Federal wildlife officials plan to move a handful of endangered Sonoran pronghorns to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western Arizona next winter in hopes of establishing a new population of the rare animals.
updated: 40 minutes ago

Police: NH man who took over Clinton office flees
The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is considered dangerous, authorities said.
updated: 41 minutes ago

Ted Anthony named AP assistant managing editor
Ted Anthony, a veteran editor and correspondent for The Associated Press who has helped develop social media strategies and new storytelling techniques in AP newsrooms, has been named an assistant managing editor for the news cooperative.
updated: 58 minutes ago

Michigan man with 100 dogs gets 5 years probation
A Michigan man who had hundreds of live and dead Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes in his home has been sentenced to five years of probation in a mental health program and ordered not to own animals.
updated: 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

Fellow NY Democrats offer Paterson little support
Top New York Democrats were silent Tuesday as Gov. David Paterson, already fighting to remain politically viable, fought to lay to rest unconfirmed rumors and news reports of womanizing and drug use.
updated: 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

Former soldier sentenced to prison for bribery
A retired Army master sergeant who pleaded guilty to bribery and money-laundering charges stemming from his time in Iraq has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
updated: 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

Conn. worker cites gas smell an hour before blast
A worker who was in a Connecticut power plant when it exploded on Sunday tells The Associated Press there was a smell of natural gas in the plant less than an hour before the blast.
updated: 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

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