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DEXTER, Mich. (AP) -- A tornado ripped through a rural southeastern Michigan community Thursday, damaging or demolishing many homes, downing trees and power lines, sparking fires and flooding neighborhood roads....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle lawyer representing the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians says the soldier had been very upset that somebody in his unit had been "gravely injured."...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) -- An Oklahoma man convicted of killing his wife with help from a relative of his mistress to collect insurance money was put to death by injection Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An adoptive father accused of raping three boys in his care was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday after an investigation police say began with an undercover detective talking online with someone who had expressed an interest in taboo sexual encounters....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An adoptive father accused of raping three boys in his care was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday after an investigation police say began with an undercover detective talking online with someone who had expressed an interest in taboo sexual encounters....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An adoptive father accused of raping three boys in his care was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday after an investigation police say began with an undercover detective talking online with someone who had expressed an interest in taboo sexual encounters....

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Killer gets life without parole; victim's wife now a suspect

DECATUR | A corporate engineer who fawned over a female subordinate was found guilty but mentally ill Thursday of fatally shooting the woman's husband in an ambush outside a suburban Atlanta preschool.

After a judge sentenced Hemy Neuman to ...

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Convicted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich never allowed himself to even think about spending the next decade of his life behind bars. Less than an hour before he began serving his 14-year sentence on corruption charges, he could hardly say that word: "prison."...

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Convicted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich never allowed himself to even think about spending the next decade of his life behind bars. Less than an hour before he began serving his 14-year sentence on corruption charges, he could hardly say that word: "prison."...

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Convicted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich never allowed himself to even think about spending the next decade of his life behind bars. Less than an hour before he began serving his 14-year sentence on corruption charges, he could hardly say that word: "prison."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for the accused madam of a multimillion-dollar brothel said Thursday he wants to explore the possibility of a plea deal, though he cautioned that he was only gauging options in a case enveloped in attention and innuendo....

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign is releasing a 17-minute documentary that portrays the president as a determined figure who confronted the economic downturn and handled a series of problems with tough decisions....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A nuclear reactor on the California coast will remain shut down indefinitely while a team of federal inspectors determines why several relatively new tubes became so frail that tests found they could rupture and release radioactive water, a federal official said Thursday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A nuclear reactor on the California coast will remain shut down indefinitely while a team of federal inspectors determines why several relatively new tubes became so frail that tests found they could rupture and release radioactive water, a federal official said Thursday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A nuclear reactor on the California coast will remain shut down indefinitely while a team of federal inspectors determines why several relatively new tubes became so frail that tests found they could rupture and release radioactive water, a federal official said Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A mentally ill man accused of stabbing four people at a downtown office building before he was shot on the street by a police officer has been charged with four counts of felonious assault, authorities said Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A mentally ill man accused of stabbing four people at a downtown office building before he was shot on the street by a police officer has been charged with four counts of felonious assault, authorities said Thursday....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle lawyer representing a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians has only appeared in military court a handful of times in a career spanning 40-plus years, but he's no stranger to high-profile clients....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle lawyer representing a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians has only appeared in military court a handful of times in a career spanning 40-plus years, but he's no stranger to high-profile clients....