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Romania puts former prison commander on trial 07/14/2014 04:52am • ALISON MUTLER Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- For the first time since communism collapsed in Romania 25 years ago, a former prison commander goes on trial Monday charged with being responsible for the torture and murdering prisoners considered a threat to the country's old order.Survivo 2 more charged in death of girl riding scooter 07/11/2014 09:21pm • PATERSON, N.J. (AP) -- Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday evening for a funeral for a 12-year-old girl killed when she was hit by a stray bullet while riding a scooter in her neighborhood, and three young men faced charges in her death.A 19-year-old who turned himself in earlier in the week pleade UK govt seeks data retention law after EU verdict 07/11/2014 10:44am • DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Concerned after a European court ruled in favor of citizens' right to privacy, Britain's prime minister pledged Thursday to rush through emergency measures to force phone and Internet companies to store call and search records for a year.The European Cour South Africa denies parole to apartheid killer 07/10/2014 08:30am • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The former head of a South African covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during white minority rule was denied parole because the families of his victims were not consulted, the government said Thursday.Eugene de Kock, Israel steps up offensive as diplomacy kicks off 07/10/2014 03:40am • JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- With rockets raining deep inside Israel, the military pummeled Palestinian targets Wednesday across the Gaza Strip and threatened a broad ground offensive, while the first diplomatic efforts to end two days of heavy fighting got underway.Egypt, which Report: US spies on prominent Muslim-Americans 07/10/2014 01:00am • STEPHEN BRAUN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- An online magazine reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency and the FBI covertly scanned the emails of five prominent Muslim-Americans under the government's secret surveillance program aimed at foreign terrorists and other national secur Syria rebels storm Sunni village, kill 14 07/09/2014 04:20pm • BARBARA SURK Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels rampaged through a Sunni village in the central province of Hama Wednesday, firing indiscriminately at civilians and killing 14 people, including seven women, state media and opposition activists said.State news agency SANA said an "armed te Arrest made in shooting death of girl on scooter 07/09/2014 02:01pm • PATERSON, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities on Wednesday announced an arrest in the deadly shooting of a 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet while riding a scooter in a northern New Jersey neighborhood increasingly frustrated by gun violence.Jhymiere Moore, 19, of Paterson, was charged with first- No new hearings for Michigan juvenile lifers 07/08/2014 08:00pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Hundreds of Michigan prisoners automatically sentenced to life behind bars for murder as teens aren't entitled to a new day in court, the state Supreme Court said Tuesday in a major decision that blocks one route to possible release but won't be the final wo Music duo Insane Clown Posse loses gang lawsuit 07/08/2014 06:50pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- The federal government can't be blamed for any fallout from a 2011 FBI report that put a gang tag on fans of the music group Insane Clown Posse, a judge said.U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland dismissed a lawsuit by the rap-metal duo and fans, known as Jugga Alaska man gets 4 life terms in Coast Guard deaths 07/08/2014 05:19pm • RACHEL D'ORO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An Alaska man was sentenced Tuesday to four consecutive life terms in the 2012 shooting deaths of two co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station that mystified an island community for nearly a year before an arrest was made.Prosecutors Council Candidate Criticizes County’s Marijuana Decriminalization Push 07/08/2014 12:05pm • A Republican political candidate and Bethesda resident says the County Council has surrendered in the War on Drugs by passing a marijuana decriminalization resolution on Tuesday. Robert Dyer, one of four Republican at-large Council candidates who will be on the ballot in November, released a stateme NYC man gets 18 years in college essay rape case 07/08/2014 01:20am • JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- She never told her family that her then-stepfather had raped her when she was 8, then revealed the allegation in a college application essay. Telling her painful story to a jury finally put it to rest, she wrote in a statement read Monday as her ex-st Guam rampage suspect accused of witness tampering 07/08/2014 12:00am • GRACE GARCES BORDALLO Associated Press HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- A Guam man accused of killing three Japanese tourists in a rampage inappropriately spoke with two witnesses from jail, prosecutors said Monday.Judge Anita Sukola will consider a motion Wednesday accusing 22-year-old Chad Ryan DeSoto of wit Hamas says 7 militants killed in Israeli strikes 07/07/2014 08:54am • JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday in the grisly slaying of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week -- a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country.Leaders of the Jewish state appe