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Correction: Newlyweds-Craigslist Killing story 09/19/2014 02:28pm • SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) -- In a Sept. 18 story about the sentencing of a couple who lured a stranger to his death with a Craigslist ad, The Associated Press erroneously reported how The Daily Item newspaper interviewed one of the defendants. It was conducted in person, not by telephone. The story also inc UN rights chief: Migrant deaths may be mass murder 09/19/2014 06:38am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The deaths of up to 500 migrants and refugees in an intentional boat-ramming in the Mediterranean Sea last week could be an act of mass murder, the U.N. rights chief said Friday, calling for nations to properly investigate the incident.Up to 500 Syrians, Belgium arrests Liberian ex-rebel commander 09/18/2014 03:38pm • JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgium has arrested a high-ranking member of the rebel movement that plunged Liberia into conflict more than two decades ago and charged her with war crimes and crimes against humanity, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said Thursday.The charges aga Barry Bonds appeal heads back to court 09/18/2014 03:10am • RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer Nearly 11 years after Barry Bonds testified before a grand jury investigating the illegal distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, a group of judges will hear arguments on whether baseball's career home-run leader should have his obstruction of justice conviction thr Police: Ambush suspect was military re-enactor 09/18/2014 01:36am • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Schools closed, kids stayed inside and authorities chased down several false sightings Wednesday in their hunt for the suspect in a fatal ambush outside a rural Pennsylvania State Police barracks.Police released new details about the background of Eric Frein, a 31-y Beanie Babies creator's sentence debated in court 09/18/2014 12:18am • JASON KEYSER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal prosecutors seeking to put the billionaire creator of Beanie Babies in prison for hiding millions in Swiss bank accounts told appellate court judges Wednesday that the toymaker's sentence of probation threatens to erode the judicial system's abil TV show helps spur arrest in 1997 Arizona killing 09/17/2014 11:44pm • FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- A television show that featured the nearly two-decade-old killing of an Arizona teenager and her unborn baby helped lead to the arrest of her ex-boyfriend, police said Wednesday.Cecilio Cruz is charged with second-degree murder and manslaught Texas woman set to die for starvation of child, 9 09/17/2014 07:40pm • MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a last-day appeal from a Texas woman convicted of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend's 9-year-old son a decade ago, clearing the way for her execution.Lisa Coleman, 38, would be th Holder calls for increased whistleblower rewards 09/17/2014 06:40pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department expects to bring criminal charges in the coming months in investigations involving financial institutions, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday as he called for better incentives for Wall Street whistleblowers who report c Investigators close in on answers in Lyon sisters case 09/17/2014 05:49pm • WASHINGTON - Multiple people likely were involved in the abduction and murder of two Montgomery County sisters who disappeared in 1975, investigators suggested Wednesday as the search of a Virginia mountain for evidence related to the case continued. "We are looking to recover evidence that will 2014 MacArthur 'genius grant' winners unveiled 09/17/2014 03:40pm • DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- A professor whose research is helping a California police department improve its strained relationship with the black community and a lawyer who advocates for victims of domestic abuse are among the 21 winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius gr Belgium grants jailed rapist, murderer euthanasia 09/17/2014 12:42pm • JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- A Belgian man convicted of murder and rape is being put to death. Yet the country doesn't have the death penalty. Confused? Authorities have granted a request for assisted suicide by the man, who says he's a menace to society and can't live knowing tha Bangladesh court reduces sentence of Islamist 09/17/2014 09:02am • JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh's Supreme Court commuted on Wednesday the death sentence of an Islamist political leader whose conviction last year for war crimes during the nation's 1971 war for independence sparked deadly protests.Delwar Hossain Sayedee, one of th AP Interview: Feds launch policing bias study 09/17/2014 03:20am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Broadening its push to improve police relations with minorities, the Justice Department has enlisted a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities and recommend strategies to address the problem Threat conviction tossed in violent poem case 09/16/2014 04:40pm • LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal appeals court has tossed the conviction of a Utah man who was found guilty of threatening a professor by sending a violent anti-immigrant email.The judges ruled the verdict violated Aaron Michael Heineman's freedom of speech becaus