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- Jury sides with New Orleans in police taping case NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal jury on Wednesday rejected allegations that New Orleans police unlawfully arrested two men who were videotaping them along a Carnival parade route in 2007....
- Police: 2 bank holdup suspects chased, shot dead GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in Tennessee say two bank robbery suspects have been shot and killed after they fired at police officers during a car chase....
- Saving rare fish may require moving mouth of river SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Saving Utah's endangered June sucker may require moving a river....
- Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group....
- Jury recommends death for Ohioan in teen slayings CINCINNATI (AP) -- A jury has recommended the death penalty for an Ohio registered sex offender jurors convicted of killing two teenage Cincinnati girls and burning their bodies....
- Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History....
- Landmark exoneration in NC almost never happened RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Nearly two years ago, North Carolina's groundbreaking innocence panel received the evidence it needed to free a man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prostitute....
- NY Gov.'s press aide quits in scandal; 4th to fall ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. David Paterson's press secretary on Wednesday became the fourth top staffer to quit amid dual scandals, resigning just hours after her boss publicly proclaimed for the first time that he did nothing wrong when he talked to a woman who had accused one of his top aides of abuse....
World News (AP)
- Yemen-American imam calls for US Muslim revolt CAIRO (AP) -- A Yemeni-American Muslim preacher has called on American Muslims to turn against the U.S. government because of its actions against Muslims around the world....
- Priests with love lives speak out against celibacy PARIS (AP) -- Leon Laclau shared his life, and often, his bed, with Marga over 20 years - all while serving as a Catholic priest in a town in the French Pyrenees....
- Iraq PM back in the lead in vote count BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi prime minister's coalition has retaken the lead from his secular challenger in a preliminary tally of votes in Iraq's parliamentary elections, the country's election commission said Wednesday....
- Cuban security agents break up protest march HAVANA (AP) -- Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented the mothers and wives of dissidents from marching on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday to demand release of their loved ones, shoving them into a bus when they lay down in the street in protest....
- Israel lifts closure of West Bank as tensions calm JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Wednesday lifted its tight restrictions on Palestinian access to Jerusalem's holiest shrine and called off an extended West Bank closure after days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces....
- Book makes new claims about Anne Frank AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A Holocaust survivor claims in a new book that Anne Frank distracted younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales - an account disputed by at least one Frank authority and a childhood friend of the diarist....
- Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said....
- Merkel: Sex abuse scandal major challenge BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."...
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