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Bennett sentenced after murder conviction 10/31/2014 05:31pm • Upper Marlboro, Md. - Eighteen-year-old honor student Marckel Ross was headed to school early two years ago, books in hand, when he was shot and killed during a robbery attempt. At first, police had no suspect and no motive. But after what judge Nicholas E. Rattal called A-plus police work, Tr Justice Dept watchdog faults agency grenade probe 10/31/2014 04:20am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal agents and prosecutors in Arizona made multiple errors in their investigation of a U.S. citizen who was suspected of smuggling grenade components to Mexico, including failing to arrest him when there was more than enough evidence to do so, the N. Korea says it has invited EU rights official 10/31/2014 03:40am • CARA ANNA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea on Thursday said it has invited European Union's top human rights official to visit the country, but it threatened to drop recent offers of visits by United Nations rights officials unless a U.N. resolution on the country removes any refe Court: Illegal police search led to dog death 10/30/2014 09:00pm • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A Connecticut city's reputation as one of America's most dangerous communities did not give police officers the right to invade a yard where they killed a family dog after getting an erroneous tip that guns were hidden in an abandoned car behind the Defense asks for new judge in Iraq war crime case 10/30/2014 08:10pm • ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Defense lawyers called a military judge biased and unfair on Thursday and asked him to remove himself from the case of a Marine being retried on a murder charge in a major Iraq war crime case.The judge, Marine Capt. Andrew Henderson, reje Arias judge bars public from witness' testimony 10/30/2014 06:08pm • JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- The judge in the Jodi Arias trial has barred the public from watching the first witness called by the convicted murderer in her bid to be spared the death penalty for the brutal 2008 killing of her former boyfriend.Maricopa County Superior Court Judg Justices consider Texas rape-murder case 10/30/2014 05:38pm • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A black inmate on Texas' death row who claims he had a clandestine relationship with a white woman but did not rape or kill her is asking the Supreme Court to take his case.Rodney Reed tells the court that his trial lawyers did a poor job defending hi Group says militants killed 600 Iraqi prisoners 10/30/2014 11:40am • SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Militants from the Islamic State carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi prison inmates when they seized the country's second-largest city of Mosul in June, an international rights group said on Thursday.Some 600 male Shiite inmates from Bado Attorneys: GPS clears man of 2009 Md. Shooting 10/29/2014 01:07pm • JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) -- Lamont Davis has a seemingly ironclad alibi for why he can't have been the triggerman in a Baltimore shooting that left a 5-year-old girl paralyzed. A GPS tracking device he'd been ordered to wear puts him in his home half a mile away at the time. Ye Appeal heard in racing great murder case 10/28/2014 07:25pm • LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A lawyer for a man convicted of murdering auto racing great Mickey Thompson and his wife urged a California appellate court panel on Tuesday to overcome distaste for defendant Michael Goodwin and reverse his case.Defense attorney Gail Harper Focus on NSA surveillance limits turns to courts 10/28/2014 11:08am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Congress mulls how to curtail the NSA's collection of Americans' telephone records, impatient civil liberties groups are looking to legal challenges already underway in the courts to limit government surveillance powers.Three appeals courts are h Malaysia's Anwar makes final appeal in sodomy case 10/28/2014 04:22am • EILEEN NG Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia's top court on Tuesday began hearing a final appeal filed by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim against a sodomy conviction widely regarded as a means to neutralize the threat he poses to the country's ruling coalition.Anwar was sentenced NSA surveillance limits: The focus turns to courts 10/28/2014 02:58am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Congress mulls how to curtail the NSA's collection of Americans' telephone records, impatient civil liberties groups are looking to legal challenges already underway in the courts to limit government surveillance powers.Three appeals courts are h China considers ending death penalty for 9 crimes 10/27/2014 09:30am • BEIJING (AP) -- China may scrap the death penalty for nine out of 55 crimes, including counterfeiting and smuggling nuclear materials, state media said Monday.China executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined, according to Dui Hua, a U.S.-based rights group that focuses on le South Africa soccer team captain shot and killed 10/27/2014 05:50am • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The captain of South Africa's national soccer team was fatally shot at a friend's house during an attempted robbery on Sunday night, police said.Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was killed around 8 p.m. after two gunmen entered a house in Vosloorus to