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Celebrity dermatologist charged in drug scheme 07/10/2014 09:30am • NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City dermatologist has been arrested and charged with writing fake prescriptions for painkillers using her patients' names and filling them.Dr. Cheryl Karcher pleaded not guilty Wednesday to drug possession, selling prescriptions, falsifying business records, fraud and ot No practicing on patients: New docs get boot camp 07/10/2014 03:32am • CHICAGO (AP) -- First-day jitters come with any new job but when the work involves pushing needles into strangers' bellies, stitching up gaping wounds or even delivering babies, that debut can be especially nerve-wracking -- for everyone involved.Brand-new doctors often launch right into patient car Oregon man impersonates deputy while on test drive 07/09/2014 04:10pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon man impersonated a sheriff's deputy while taking an SUV for a test drive and pulled over a motorcyclist, authorities said.Anthony McGuire, 39, of Salem was arrested Saturday after the motorcyclist and two employees from the car lot sens Fake ID sellers from Va., Rhode Island sentenced 07/09/2014 01:20pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Two more participants in a sophisticated multistate fake identification ring have been sentenced in federal court in Virginia.U.S. Attorney Dana Boente (BEN-tay) says 35-year-old Ivan Patino Sanchez of Richmond was sentenced this week to eight years in prison and 46-year-old Fe Soda tax's last stand? Bay Area preps for showdown 07/09/2014 09:20am • CANDICE CHOI AP Food Industry Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- If two of the most progressive U.S. cities don't pass a tax on sugary drinks, will the idea finally fizzle out?Sugary drinks have been under fire for years, with many blaming them for rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases. Yet efforts to Report: Good service keeps customers coming back 07/08/2014 11:31am • WASHINGTON -- Businesses' low prices won't keep customers coming back, according to a new Gallup report. While Americans value a good deal, low prices can't be the only thing that distinguishes the business, according to the Gallup report, State of the American Consumer, which examined what con Fire, Sporting KC play to 1-1 tie 07/06/2014 06:30pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Mike Magee scored in the 40th minute to give the Chicago Fire a 1-1 draw with Sporting Kansas City on Sunday.Sporting failed to clear a loose ball in its own end and Chicago midfielder Alex collected it and found Magee on the left flank. Magee settled the pass and calmly be 9 arrested in Macedonia over fake utility websites 07/06/2014 11:00am • SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Macedonian police say they have arrested nine men suspected of creating fake websites for public utilities in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to steal money from their customers.Police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said Thursday that the gang made an estimated Corporations are people? It's a real legal concept 07/04/2014 10:28am • NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- There may be more to that "we the people" notion than you thought.These are boom times for the concept of "corporate personhood."Corporations are people?Mitt Romney got mocked during the 2012 presidential campaign for the very idea.But it turns out the AIDS scientist pleads not guilty to faking study 07/02/2014 05:32pm • DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A former Iowa State University scientist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges alleging that he falsified research for an AIDS vaccine to secure millions of dollars in federal funding.Dong-Pyou Han, 57, entered his not guilty pleas to four counts Pistorius is not a narcissist, psychologist says 07/02/2014 03:26pm • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius does not display the narcissism associated with men in abusive relationships and linked to "rage-type" murders, according to a psychologist's report read Wednesday at the athlete's murder trial.The report adds to con Review: McCarthy's 'Tammy' misses the funny bone 07/02/2014 07:16am • JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Meet Tammy. Boy, is she a mess. Angry, profane and aggressive, then suddenly shy and sweet. Sometimes she's funny, sometimes totally not. She can't figure out what she wants to do or be, or where to go. She has loads of people around her, yet can't figure out what t 4 guilty in California in fake kidnapping scheme 07/02/2014 07:10am • SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Four people have pleaded guilty to running a scheme that collected ransoms from 128 families across the United States by falsely claiming their loved ones had been kidnapped.Ruth Raygoza of Chula Vista, California, Maria Contreras of Los Angeles and Adrian and Jonathan Rocha of Tij Manziel's playbook: hanging with Justin Bieber 07/02/2014 04:54am • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) -- Johnny Manziel went from hanging out with the Browns to hanging with the Biebs.Cleveland's rookie quarterback, whose social life has overshadowed his NFL arrival, posted photographs on Twitter of him and Justin Bieber.Manziel promised last week he would A look at South Carolina sheriffs in legal trouble 07/01/2014 11:12pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The longest-serving sheriff in South Carolina, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts, has pleaded not guilty to federal bribery and fraud charges. But sheriffs charged under the laws they are supposed to uphold is nothing unusual in South Carolina these days. Metts is the eight