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Terror plot ringleader gets 13-year prison term

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison.Read more

Pa. judges in juvenile kickbacks case win immunity

|Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking kickbacks to supply private detention facilities with juveniles have been granted partial immunity from civil liability.Read more

Murder trial move to LA a setback for transit cop

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day.Read more

Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.Read more

Lawyer: Ohio's legal injection a human experiment

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.Read more

Atty: Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect

|Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.Read more

Pa. university students must pass fitness class

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.Read more

Panel: Extending nuclear weapons life successful

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

An independent panel says the United States can extend the life of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing programs, a finding that activists contend means there's no need for the nation to design replacements for the nuclear arsenal.Read more

Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.Read more

Giuliani back in spotlight _ but what's the show?

| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Whether he's planning another run for the White House or a bid for senator or governor, or he just misses the spotlight, Rudy Giuliani is suddenly back and talking about the topic that made him a national star - Sept. 11.Read more