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Judge to Edwards jurors: Don't discuss the case
Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case - but not talk about it - as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations.
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Images vary of man charged in old murder of NY boy
The anniversary of the day 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school dawned with his suspected killer in police custody, but it ended with a muddled portrait of the man who confessed to strangling the little boy and dumping his body in the trash.
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Ind. man takes hostages, shoots self in office
Accountant Carolyn Biesen was working in her Indiana real estate office when she heard a commotion near the front desk. She walked out, saw a man standing over her injured co-worker on the ground, then yelled at him to leave.
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Quotations of the day
"Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail." - NASA astronaut Donald Pettit after he used the International Space Station's 58-foot robot arm Friday to snare SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station.
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Tropical storm warnings for Southeast coast
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength early Saturday and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend.
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Oregon police find mother of 3 abandoned kids
The mother of three young children abandoned in a Portland shed was found by police on Friday, a day after the kids were taken to safety.
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Wis. officials unknowingly break law with Facebook
High-ranking members of both political parties were unaware that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal in Wisconsin, and they promised to quickly take down the posts Friday after election officials reminded voters of the law.
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BUSINESS
Barbara Graves, wife of prominent publisher, dies
Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday.
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NATIONAL
Bus driver taking kids to Disneyland arrested
An alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said Friday.
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2 female Army officers sue to reverse combat ban
Two women in the Army Reserve have sued the U.S. Department of Defense and the Army in a bid to reverse military policies banning women from serving in combat roles.








