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Law signed to curb Abu-Jamal's 'obscene celebrity' 10/22/2014 07:20am • MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Ignoring the chants of protesters on the block where a police officer was killed and the cause célèbre of Mumia Abu-Jamal was born, Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law Tuesday a measure he said would curb the "obscene celebrity" cultivated by con Va. crime panel backs stronger police ID policy 10/22/2014 07:20am • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia State Crime Commission is recommending stronger measures to ensure the accuracy of police eyewitness identifications.The commission agreed Tuesday to back legislation requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a model policy recommend Millions in Social Security for expelled Nazis 10/21/2014 12:46pm • DAVID RISING Associated Press OSIJEK, Croatia (AP) -- Former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger lived the American dream.His plastics company in the Rust Belt town of Akron, Ohio, thrived. By the late 1980s, he had acquired the trappings of success: a Cadillac DeVille and a Lincoln Town Car, a lakefron Police: Naked Fitness Buff Tased in Nauck 10/21/2014 10:15am • A man was arrested Thursday night after allegedly doing push-ups in public while naked, then resisting arrest. The incident happened around 8:00 p.m. on the 3200 block of 24th Street S. Police say a local resident, 31-year-old Timothy Lowe, was nude and doing push-ups in the middle of the street. &# White House opposes Nazi benefit payments 10/21/2014 04:04am • RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Nazis should not be getting the Social Security benefits they are receiving as they age overseas, the White House said Monday, responding to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions of dollars have been paid to war-crimes sus Not all cases cited by FBI hinge on access to data 10/20/2014 04:10pm • JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The text messages captured a cover-up of unimaginable abuse: Parents had struck their toddler so often that they ultimately killed her. The child shook badly because we beat her, the father wrote, and the mother complained that their 2-year-old was the Prominent South African politician shot in robbery 10/20/2014 02:20pm • LYNSEY CHUTEL Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A prominent member of South Africa's ruling party was shot in the chest during a robbery at an ATM in the country's east, the African National Congress said Monday.Jackson Mthembu, a member of parliament and the party's former national spokesman, w Justices will decide privacy case on hotel records 10/20/2014 01:00pm • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to referee a dispute over police access to hotels' guest information without first getting a search warrant.The justices said they will hear an appeal by the city of Los Angeles of a lower court ruling that struck down Court to decide if convicted felon can sell guns 10/20/2014 12:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will decide whether a convicted felon barred from possessing guns can sell or transfer the weapons to another person after he had surrendered them to authorities.The justice on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Tony Henderson, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent Philippine leader: Murder case won't harm US ties 10/20/2014 10:46am • JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Monday that a murder investigation focused on a U.S. Marine should have no bearing on the two countries' relations, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington seeks no "special privilege Colorado candidate's town shapes immigration view 10/19/2014 07:22pm • NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press YUMA, Colo. (AP) -- Andrea Hermosillo rode for hours to protest at her neighbor's office.The high school junior lives only a few blocks from GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner in Yuma, a small town on Colorado's high plains.But this summer, Hermosillo went to the co Sikh massacre in India is issue in California race 10/18/2014 08:20am • FENIT NIRAPPIL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Anger stemming from a 30-year-old religious clash in India that left thousands dead has crept into one of the closest and most expensive congressional races in the country.Some Sikh political activists and the California Republican Party are Do cases FBI cites support encryption worries? 10/18/2014 04:56am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The text messages captured a cover-up of unimaginable abuse: Parents had struck their toddler so often that they ultimately killed her. The child shook badly because we beat her, the father wrote, and the mother complained that their 2-year-old was the New advisers say NFL is serious about reform 10/18/2014 12:48am • JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Beth E. Richie is a professor and a college administrator. She has written articles and books about feminism, battered women and the prison system, and provided training for police, judges and other groups.So when the NFL called to ask for help with its dom Slain Paraguayan journalist was probing drug gangs 10/17/2014 07:26pm • PEDRO SERVIN Associated Press ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- A newspaper said Friday that a journalist who was shot to death was investigating drug gangs with suspected links to Paraguayan politicians.Pablo Medina was killed Thursday in a crime-ridden northern area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms sm