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More than four years after the death of 14-year-old Florida boot camp inmate Martin Lee Anderson, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced no federal criminal civil rights charges will be filed against eight staff members.

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Charges have been dropped against nine of the American missionaries held in Haiti earlier this year, according to a spokesman for Idaho Sen. Jim Risch.

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Mexican actress Fernanda Romero and her American husband face federal charges of entering a sham marriage so she could get legal residency in the United States.

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The woman who accused football star Ben Roethlisberger of raping her in March in a bar in Georgia described the alleged incident to police as the culmination of a night of bar-hopping.

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As she began a foot pursuit of a suspect down a dark alley and around a forbidding street corner, Cincinnati police officer Mandy Curfiss radioed to headquarters that she was heading toward a local gas station.

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Yvonne Simons is hoping to make it to Amsterdam Friday to spend time with her father before he has heart surgery next week.

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Lisa Alexander woke up early on February 18, the same way she does every morning.

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Former President Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House.

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China’s dominant position in the production of rare earth minerals has long-reaching implications for the U.S. Department of Defense, according to a recent government report.

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Most Americans — and most American Catholics — think Pope Benedict XVI has done a bad job of dealing with the problem of sexual abuse by Catholics priests, according to a new national poll.

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