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Reputed Detroit mob boss Jack W. Tocco dies at 87 07/16/2014 11:45am • GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Reputed Detroit mob boss Jack W. Tocco, who was convicted of racketeering in 1998 in a federal crackdown on organized crime, has died. He was 87.Tocco, who said he fought his entire life to clear his name, died Monday at home in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe P 2 Utah ex-attorneys general charged with bribery 07/16/2014 10:04am • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As candidates for attorney general, Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow vowed to root out fraud and uphold the laws of Utah with the highest integrity. They served a combined 13 years as attorney general while holding significant political sway a UK lawmakers debate emergency data-retention law 07/15/2014 10:40pm • LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers debated the balance between privacy and security Tuesday during an unusual one-day session designed to rush an online surveillance bill through Parliament.A series of government and opposition legislators spoke in the House of Commons to condemn the Data Retention an 2 ex-Utah attorneys general charged with bribery 07/15/2014 08:00pm • MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two former Utah attorneys general were arrested on an array of bribery charges Tuesday stemming from cozy relationships with several businessmen, a stunning fall for a pair of politicians who built immense political clout in their years at th FBI cyber expert is ex-discount furniture salesman 07/15/2014 07:20pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- J. Keith Mularski's world has expanded greatly since he stopped selling discount furniture to join the FBI in 1998. Especially since he transferred from Washington, D.C., in 2005 to fill a vacancy in the Pittsburgh field office's cyber squad -- which he Missouri man gets 14 years in sex trafficking case 07/15/2014 05:20pm • JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Missouri man was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison for taking a developmentally delayed teenage girl from Massachusetts to a motel in Rhode Island, where he sold her to a man for $40 and two packs of cigarettes to use for sex.Thirt Kenya postelection violence victims seek justice 07/15/2014 12:09pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An international human rights group says victims of the violence in Kenya that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced more than 600,000 from their homes six years ago are still seeking justice and reparation.Amnesty International said Tuesday that Kenya's government and p US jails struggle with role as makeshift asylums 07/15/2014 05:26am • ADAM GELLER AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something's not right."They say I got bipolar, tha Court issues partial win to bin Laden assistant 07/15/2014 01:20am • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Monday set aside two of three convictions against a former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the ruling in the case of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who produced After appeal, jail in NYC Dead Sea Scrolls case 07/14/2014 06:10pm • JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A man convicted of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his father's academic rivals on the ancient subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls was sentenced Monday to two months in jail after the state's highest court tossed out some of his convicti 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