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Fake officer accused of pulling over a real one 06/06/2014 07:28pm • ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a man impersonating an officer face charges after signaling a real detective to pull over on a road in Florida.St. Johns County authorities say 20-year-old Matthew Michael Lee McMahon activated a red and blue light Monday while driving behind an unmarked sherif 9-year-old with leukemia becomes superhero for day 06/06/2014 07:01pm • FERNANDO PEINADO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- When Jaylen Hyde woke up on Friday -- his 9th birthday -- and turned on the TV, his jaw dropped.A phony breaking news segment -- recorded just for him by the local NBC station -- called on Jaylen to become superhero "Striker Boy" and sa Photo gaffes generate attacks in Kentucky campaign 06/06/2014 03:30pm • BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Campaign photos showing a Greek power plant and a Ukrainian model posing as a coal miner have raised questions about the authenticity of the candidates' pitches to voters in Kentucky's hard-hitting Senate race.Accusations of misusing stock pho Iraqi goes from translator for US Army to soldier 06/05/2014 02:58pm • BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- In the months after American forces invaded Iraq in 2003, Abdulla Mizead would look warily as soldiers carrying heavy weapons patrolled his neighborhood in Najaf.Normally, he would keep his distance. But one afternoon he approached some A Ex-Richmond developer pleads guilty to 2 charges 06/05/2014 04:10am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A former Richmond developer awaiting sentencing for fraudulently obtaining historic tax credits has pleaded guilty to two additional charges.Billy Gene Jefferson Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to unlawful transfer of a false identification document and aggravated Woman sentenced in fraudulent tax refund scheme 06/04/2014 09:18pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- A woman who prosecutors say recruited people to file for fraudulent tax refunds has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.Forty-three-year-old Tonia Lawson of Middle River was also ordered to pay more than $500,000 in restitution at sentencing Wednesday in federal court in Baltimor Ohio man held, accused of faking diplomatic papers 06/04/2014 07:20pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Ohio man who says he is the keeper of the seal of St. Peter and immune from U.S. law was ordered held without bond Wednesday on charges that he issued hundreds of fraudulent diplomatic credentials to people who paid to be part of his movement.James T. McBride, 60, who is l Man convicted in car bomb plot seeks new trial 06/04/2014 06:28pm • NIGEL DUARA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The defense team of a man convicted of terrorism in Oregon is seeking to challenge both his conviction and the government's secret, warrantless searches of Americans' communications collected as part of foreign surveillance.The Oregon federal court D-Day narrative started early, and still evolves 06/04/2014 06:24am • JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- From the first sketchy German radio broadcast to the distribution of images filmed in color, it has taken decades for the full story of the D-Day invasion to come out.As world leaders and veterans prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion thi Once-declared dead banker takes plea deal in fraud 06/04/2014 05:30am • RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- In the past two years, a former Georgia investment adviser has been wanted as a fugitive, declared dead and captured alive.It appears the strange case against Aubrey Lee Price will come to an end Thursday, after prosecutors said they had reached a pl Romanian health care tycoon falls to death 06/03/2014 04:10pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A Romanian tycoon whose pharmacy chain is at the center of a corruption investigation died Tuesday after falling from his house, a medical clinic said.The Polisano clinic said 58-year-old Ilie Vonica, one of Romania's richest men, died in his hometown of Sibiu. A police sp Officer's demise causes deep problems for Arpaio 06/02/2014 09:20pm • JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- When sheriff's deputy Ramon Charley Armendariz hanged himself, he left behind a house full of questions.Among the items at his house were a stash of drugs, evidence bags from old cases, hundreds of fake IDs and thousands of his video-recorded traffic Chinese man stranded in S. Korea after son scribbles in passport 06/02/2014 01:59pm • WASHINGTON -- A passport photo recently went viral after a Chinese tourist was supposedly stranded in South Korea when his four-year-old son scribbled on his picture. The man allegedly took to Chinese microblogging site Weibo to decry the situation: "It is so depressing. What am I supposed to d 41 charged in insurance scam involving dead deer 06/01/2014 09:50am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.Ronald Galati Sr. is accused of running a $5 million scam out of his auto body shop.District Attorney Seth Williams said Wed Shinseki resigns amid vets' health care problems 06/01/2014 08:14am • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beset by growing evidence of patient delays and cover-ups, embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned from President Barack Obama's Cabinet Friday, taking the blame for what he decried as a "lack of integrity" in the sprawli