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Amish beard-cutting ringleader gets 15 years
CLEVELAND — Denying he ran an Amish cult, the 67-year-old ringleader of hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow members of his faith in Ohio was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison, while fami...
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Associated Press A man walks his dog past the snow covered "Boy and Bird" fountain Friday in the Boston Public Garden. Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency and banned travel on roads as of 4 p.m. as a blizzard that could bring nearly 3 feet of snow to the region began to intensify.
Snowstorm hits northeast
BOSTON — A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books began clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights, closing workplaces and sending peop...
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Bishops want broader birth control exemption
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops say the Obama administration’s compromise plan for religious employers and birth control coverage doesn’t go far enough. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho...
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Associated Press Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) arrive Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. They testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon's role in responding to the attack last year on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
US plans forces to handle Benghazi-like situations
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is determined to position small, quick reaction forces closer to global crises after the rapid assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September kept U.S...
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Amish in beard attacks face sentencing today
BERGHOLZ, Ohio — More than 50 Amish children could lose one parent to prison — and most of the youngest could lose both — today when 16 men and women are sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fello...
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Associated Press A SWAT team enters a home Thursday in search of shooting suspect Christopher Dorner in Big Bear, Calif. Thousands of police officers hunted Thursday for a former Los Angeles officer angry over his firing and sought in a deadly shooting rampage.
Mountain manhunt continues for ex-cop accused of killing 3
LOS ANGELES — A fired police officer who threatened to bring “warfare” to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extra...
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Brennan defends drone strikes on Americans
WASHINGTON — Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing Thursday the United States employs drone strikes only as a deterrent against imminent terro...
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Blizzard threatens NYC, New England; 2 feet feared
BOSTON — A blizzard of potentially mammoth proportions threatened to strike the Northeast with a vengeance today, with up to 2 feet of snow feared along the densely populated Interstate 95 corridor...
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Woman gives sexual details about slain lover
PHOENIX — Testimony has concluded for the week in the Arizona trial of a woman charged with fatally stabbing and shooting her lover. Jodi Arias testified this week in Phoenix about the volatile ...
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Charity set up after club fire has modest effect
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Months after they were sentenced for a 2003 fire at their Rhode Island nightclub that killed 100 people, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian set up a charity to help educate the dozens...
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