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LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The first inmate to die by lethal injection in Ohio in more than a year argued to the end that his obesity would make it difficult for prison staff to find suitable veins in his arms to deliver the deadly chemicals....
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A man who had been charged with manslaughter in the death of a fellow inmate at the Prince George's County jail was sentenced yesterday to probation on a lesser charge.
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Canada's currency ended an awful week on Friday, down more than 3½ cents US in the week's final session and briefly touching its lowest point in four years.
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Many retirement savers now have approximately the same balance they had in 2005.
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Despite Korean cease-fire, too many standards will stymie new handheld sets.
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Wong was a Los Angeles commissioner for more than a decade. He used his influence during Mayor James Hahn's administration in seeking city deals for Evergreen, a Taiwan-based shipping company. A judge on Friday sentenced former Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong to five years in state prison for his role in a "pay to play" corruption scandal that plagued the administration of former Mayor James Hahn.
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How the Gamecocks and Wildcats match up.
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KENT, Wash. (AP) -- A man faces more than 97 years in prison for his killing his boss and two others in Kent....
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Lawyers for an Ohio death row inmate who unsuccessfully argued that he is too fat to die by lethal injection have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Tuesday's execution....
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Last month was the dullest September since 1985, according to a conservation charity.
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The WiPC protests the three-year prison sentence and exorbitant fine imposed on the well known singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga (real name Pierre Roger Lambo Sandjo) on 24 September 2008 for allegedly taking part in anti-government riots. Mbanga is known as
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The Senate was yesterday shocked once again, when it was told of how a whooping sum of N453. 589 billion was squandered by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) between 1999and 2008, even as it queried the N9.450 billion extra- budgetary
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Rachael Mullenix, 19, expresses grudging remorse as she is sentenced for conspiring with her boyfriend to stab her mother and dump her body into Newport Harbor. Rachael Mullenix, the Huntington Beach teenager who conspired with her love-struck boyfriend to murder her mother and dump the slashed body into Newport Harbor, expressed only grudging and limited remorse Friday as a judge sentenced her to 25 years to life in prison.
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RETAIL sales have suffered their biggest drop in almost a quarter of a century as recession-hit shoppers stay away in their droves.
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A Dublin man who systematically raped and sexually abused the daughter of a family friend over a period of six years has been jailed for 12 years.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) -- A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays....
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Once dubbed the world’s fastest man, Tim Montgomery, the former Olympic track star, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.
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The sentencing of Solizhon Abdurakhmanov, a human rights activist, prompted calls for extended sanctions on Uzbekistan.
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Feels like a few years ago
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TWENTY-ONE years ago today I co-presented RTE's first ever TV business programme, Marketplace. There was no glitzy launch and, apart from my doting mother, very few people watched the series. Last week I was back in RTE for their launch of a very different business programme, The Dragons' Den. I am not a presenter this time but a participant or a Dragon.
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The conviction of the activist, Solizhon Abdurakhmanov, was on drugs charges. He says the illegal substances were planted on him.
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Scientists believe they have found the oldest ever footprint - dating back 570 million years.
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Motorway toll lanes which drivers pay to use to avoid traffic could be trialled within two years after the Government sent a team to the USA to study how the scheme works.
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Fun note from Dodgers PR in the pregame notes: Tonight’s game is the first NLCS game at Dodger Stadium in exactly 20 years. Game 7 of the 1988 NLCS vs. New York was on Oct. 12, 1988. Orel Hershiser, who...
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How Robby Benson, the Jewish-born '70s Tiger Beat fixture, found himself directing a feature about Christian evangelist Billy Graham. "IT WAS one of those wonderful phone calls," Robby Benson says, recalling February when producer Larry Mortoff dialed him up and asked if he wanted to direct "Billy: The Early Years," a new film about evangelist Billy Graham being released in late October. "It's why so many people are in show business. Because, mostly, you don't get the good phone calls."
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Residents celebrate 50th anniversary of library system
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Disgraced former track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.
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Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU External Relations Commissioner, said her meeting Monday with Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov could be seen as a reward after Belarus freed political prisoners.
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Cheating athletes who evaded detection during the Beijing Olympics will only know if they got away with it in eight years' time.
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In the Renaissance city of Venice, at the Palazzo Grassi, French billionaire and philanthropist François Pinault has financed a retrospective exhibit of 40 years of Italian modern art.
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Two more people involved in the killing of former Villanova basketball star Howard Porter were sentenced on Monday.
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Dicky Lyons Jr.'s season and collegiate career at Kentucky are over. Surgery to repair the posterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments will keep him sidelined for eight months to a year, coach Rich Brooks said Monday.
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Estate agents are selling less than one property a week as prices continue to tumble, figures showed today.
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A criminal who poured petrol over a man and threatened to set him alight during a terrifying carjacking ordeal has been jailed for more than five years.
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