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2 NC men's convictions overturned in 1983 killing 09/03/2014 10:00am • JONATHAN DREW Associated Press LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- One of North Carolina's longest-serving death-row inmates and his half brother are being freed after three decades in prison after another man's DNA was discovered on a cigarette butt left near the body of a girl the siblings were convicted of k 5 women named to Japan's Cabinet, tying past high 09/03/2014 09:35am • YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's prime minister picked five women for his Cabinet on Wednesday, matching the past record and sending the strongest message yet about his determination to change deep-seated views on gender and revive the economy by getting women on board as workers Police: Death of teen whose body burned was random 09/03/2014 05:54am • KEN KUSMER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A 15-year-old Indianapolis girl whose burned body was found over the weekend was likely abducted and killed by someone she didn't know, police and family members said Tuesday.Dominique Allen's death was a homicide resulting from asphyxiation, Marion C Greece to toughen penalties on hate speech 09/02/2014 11:50am • DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Lawmakers in Greece on Tuesday began debating draft legislation to outlaw Holocaust denial and expand prosecution powers against the incitement of racial violence, following scores of violent attacks against immigrants and a surge in popular s Anti-China group nabbed for planned Manila attacks 09/02/2014 06:58am • OLIVER TEVES Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine authorities said Tuesday that they arrested three men linked to a group that was planning to set off firebombs at Manila's international airport and a major mall in the city to protest the government's alleged "soft" stance in its Israeli fire on Gaza town raises war crimes claim 09/01/2014 02:22am • KARIN LAUB Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The first of August dawned as a day of promise for the Mahmoum clan and thousands of other Palestinians stuck in United Nations shelters in Rafah -- thanks to a temporary cease-fire with Israel they could go home for three days.But the expected r Transgender women's killings test police outreach 08/30/2014 10:34am • JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) -- The day after Mia Henderson's body was found in a Baltimore alley, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts invited members of the city's LGBT community to a meeting. "We are listening. We are paying attention," he told them. "We are responding, and we No new trial for doctor convicted of killing wife 08/29/2014 10:00pm • LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah doctor convicted in November of killing his wife won't get a new trial, a judge ruled Friday.Martin MacNeill argued that his cellmates lied when they testified that he confessed to the crime.Judge Derek Pullan denied the motion for a NH high court: New sentence hearings in killings 08/29/2014 12:40pm • LYNNE TUOHY Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Four men convicted of murder as teenagers should receive new sentencing hearings in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that mandatory life sentences for juvenile are unconstitutional, New Hampshire's Supreme Court ruled Friday.The New Hampshire Clinton says frayed trust led to Ferguson violence 08/29/2014 07:28am • HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton broke nearly three weeks of silence Thursday on the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, saying his death and the violent protests that followed resulted from frayed bonds of trust in a racially divided Matt Stroud named AP reporter in Morgantown, W.Va. 08/28/2014 03:04pm • MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Matt Stroud, a reporter covering criminal justice for technology website The Verge, is joining The Associated Press as a correspondent based in Morgantown, home of West Virginia University.Stroud, 32, will be responsible for coverage of the northern part of the state, cover Dad acquitted in slaying of driver who killed sons 08/27/2014 07:33pm • JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press ANGLETON, Texas (AP) -- A southeast Texas man says that despite his acquittal Wednesday for the shooting death of the drunken driver who caused a crash that killed his two sons, there are no winners."This was a loss for everybody," said a visibly relieved David Baraja More Colorado pot seized in the mail, report says 08/27/2014 04:40pm • SADIE GURMAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- The amount of Colorado marijuana being seized en route to other states through the U.S. mail has more than quadrupled since 2010 and was destined for more states than before, according to a new report by a federally funded drug task force.Postal inspector Colombian kingpin's former hit man leaves prison 08/27/2014 08:40am • JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's army of assassins has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard.John Jairo Velasquez, better known by his nickname "Popeye," was parole Can Ferguson change the 'ritual' of black deaths? 08/27/2014 05:44am • JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- The choir sang, the preachers shouted and the casket stayed closed. The body was taken to the cemetery, and Michael Brown was laid to rest.Thus went the most recent enactment of "the ritual" -- the script of death, outrage, spin and mourning