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Man gets 4 years for gift card conspiracy 07/01/2014 09:31pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- A store owner has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for running a scheme in which he directed others to steal items from large retailers and then return them for gift cards.Forty-five-year-old John Tadros of Baltimore was also ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution a Leader of multistate fake ID ring sentenced in Va. 07/01/2014 04:30pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A man from Mexico who oversaw a sophisticated multistate fake identification ring has been sentenced in Virginia to 12 years and one month in federal prison.U.S. District Judge James Spencer sentenced Manuel Hidalgo Flores on Tuesday. Flores, who lived in Pawtucket, Rhode Islan Ukrainian president ends unilateral ceasefire 07/01/2014 05:56am • DAVID McHUGH Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he was abandoning a unilateral cease-fire in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists and sending military forces back on the offensive after talks with Russia and European leaders failed to start a broade Reaction to Supreme Court birth control decision 07/01/2014 04:33am • The Associated Press The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies like the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, if they have religious objections.A sampling of reaction:___"Today, t Marine who said he was kidnapped returned to US 06/30/2014 08:00pm • EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from his unit in Iraq nearly a decade ago under mysterious circumstances. A week later, a photo of a blindfolded Hassoun with a sword poised above his head turned up on Al-Jazeera television. There was US game seems made for Belgium's Hazard to shine 06/28/2014 08:40pm • RAF CASERT AP Sports Writer MOGI DAS CRUZES, Brazil (AP) -- Belgium coach Marc Wilmots was sure about two things coming into the World Cup: A single action can turn a match, and Eden Hazard can produce that single decisive action.The Belgian playmaker goes into the second-round game against the Unit Twins get Arcia HR, little else in 6-2 loss to LAA 06/26/2014 02:16am • GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Oswaldo Arcia snapped his 0-for-31 skid with a long homer in the second inning off Angels starter Garrett Richards, who had given up just two homers all season.Nothing else went particularly well in another loss for the Minnesota Twins, who also Garrett Richards pitches Angels past Twins 6-2 06/26/2014 02:05am • GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Garrett Richards felt he was getting squeezed on balls and strikes, and he saw nothing special about his stuff.He still led the Los Angeles Angels to yet another victory in his breakout season.Richards pitched four-hit ball into the eighth inning Indiana man pleads guilty in fake credit union 06/25/2014 07:18pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An Indianapolis man has pleaded guilty to defrauding thousands of investors through a fake online credit union.Sixty-three-year-old Timothy Coughlin entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria.According to a statement of facts, from around 2006 through March 201 Judge: Warrantless bulk surveillance is legal 06/25/2014 04:50pm • NIGEL DUARA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government's bulk collection of phone and email data from foreign nationals living outside the country -- including their contact with U.S. citizens -- in denying a man's motion to dismiss his t UK payday lender used fake lawyers to chase debts 06/25/2014 09:50am • LONDON (AP) -- Regulators have ordered Britain's biggest payday lender to pay 2.6 million pounds ($4.4 million) in compensation to tens of thousands of people for unfair debt collection practices.Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said the company, Wonga, sent letters from non-existent law firms 'Retired' Russian mafia boss arrested in Thailand 06/25/2014 03:20am • BANGKOK (AP) -- A Russian mafia gang leader wanted back home for his alleged involvement in scores of killings and other criminal activities since 1995 was arrested in Thailand while living on a retirement visa, police said Wednesday.The mafia boss, Alexander Matusov, was arrested Monday in front of Review: 'They Came Together' a parody party 06/24/2014 03:42pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer David Wain's "They Came Together" identifies the tropes of the romantic comedy with uncommon acuity. If only it would stop winking so much.Wain has made his film with an enviable collection of funny people. It stars Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as the intractably drawn togethe It's a frog, it's a gorilla? No, it's Pig the dog 06/24/2014 09:00am • JAY REEVES Associated Press ALABASTER, Ala. (AP) -- It's impossible not to stare at Kim Dillenbeck's dog Pig.Born in Atlanta with severe deformities and adopted by the Alabama woman, the 8-month-old mutt has gangly legs, a body that appears to have been chopped in half and no neck.Pig looks like one Brothers sentenced to prison in marathon fund scam 06/24/2014 06:10am • PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) -- Two brothers convicted of filing a false $2 million claim to the Boston Marathon victims' compensation fund using the name of a long-dead aunt were sentenced Monday to three years in prison.Branden Mattier, 23, and Domunique Grice, 28, were convicted th