Terror plot ringleader gets 13-year prison term
| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MIAMI — 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
SCRANTON, Pa. — 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
SAN FRANCISCO — 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
BRUNSWICK, Maine — 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
COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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
SAN ANTONIO — 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
PHILADELPHIA — 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
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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
SAN DIEGO — 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
NEW YORK — 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
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Fighting tears, Oprah Winfrey says her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season.
