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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 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