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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 Man convicted on terror charges files appeal 07/07/2014 07:50am • PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Nine years ago the FBI made a startling announcement: A "sleeper cell" of al-Qaida operatives was uncovered in California's Central Valley.Following the arrests of five terror suspects, journalists swarmed to this sleepy farming city of 60,000 known Charges against bombing suspects' pals questioned 07/06/2014 09:32pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- In the weeks after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, prosecutors charged three of the surviving suspect's friends with obstructing the investigation or lying to authorities.More than a year later, they charged a Clashes break out during Palestinian funeral 07/05/2014 02:40am • YOUSUR ALHLOU Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands mourned at the funeral for an Arab teen who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack.Palestinian militants, meanwhile, fi Suspect arrested in Bourbon St. shootings 07/04/2014 09:04pm • KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with a gunfight that erupted on Bourbon Street, killing one bystander and wounding nine others on the thoroughfare of nightspots that is one of New Orleans' biggest tourist draws.Police chief Ronal Israel rushes forces to southern border with Gaza 07/04/2014 06:26am • JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military rushed additional forces to its southern border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, vowing to halt a growing wave of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory, while new clashes erupted in east Jerusalem in response to the death of Court backs police pension in Chicago torture case 07/03/2014 05:17pm • DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- An imprisoned former Chicago police commander accused of overseeing the torture of dozens of men -- almost all of them black -- to coerce confessions will keep his pension of more than $3,000 a month, under a decision Thursday by the Illinois Supreme Court Lawyer for Libyan militant says evidence lacking 07/03/2014 12:32pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A lawyer for a Libyan militant charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Wednesday that she had seen no evidence tying her client to the violence, but a judge nonetheless directed Ahmed Abu Khattala to remain in custody as the Justice Department builds Court backs police pension in Chicago torture case 07/03/2014 11:40am • CHICAGO (AP) -- An imprisoned former Chicago police commander accused of overseeing the torture of suspects will keep his $3,000-a-month pension following a ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court.Justices ruled 4-3 Thursday that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan cannot challenge a police pension 6 sheriff's employees convicted in LA jail probe 07/01/2014 08:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Six Los Angeles County sheriff's employees were convicted Monday of obstructing a federal investigation into the abuse of inmates at county jails.After a week of deliberations, a federal jury convicted Lts. 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Scott Craig and Maricela Long Leaders get immunity at new African rights court 07/01/2014 01:00pm • MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Leaders at an African summit have voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights.The decision comes as the continent conf Indonesia's ex- top judge gets life for corruption 07/01/2014 03:32am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An anti-graft court has sentenced Indonesia's former top judge to life imprisonment for corruption and money laundering.Akil Mochtar was chief of the Constitutional Court when the Corruption Eradication Commission captured him red-handed last October for accepting bribes t US soldier suspected of slaying Panamanian woman 06/30/2014 08:00pm • KATHIA MARTINEZ Associated Press PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Activists in Panama are demanding that a career U.S. soldier suspected of killing a local woman be tried in local courts.Master Sgt. Omar Velez is being held at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in connection with the murder of woman in her mid Ex-pastor pleads no contest to killing first wife 06/30/2014 07:20pm • LEBANON, Pa. (AP) -- A former Pennsylvania pastor serving a life sentence in the fatal bludgeoning of his second wife entered a surprise no-contest plea Monday to charges that he killed his first wife in 1999.Arthur "A.B." Schirmer pleaded no contest to third-degree murder during a pretrial hearing UK TV host Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assault 06/30/2014 03:59pm • GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Television entertainer Rolf Harris, known to generations of children in Britain and Australia for his friendly screen presence, was found guilty Monday of a string of indecent assaults on young girls that took place from the '60s to the '80s.The convictio