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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- They never knew Dharun Ravi to say anything bad about gays. But they also never discussed it with him....

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish immigrants killed while building a Pennsylvania railroad in 1832 - murder victims, researchers believe, of local vigilantes who buried them anonymously near the tracks - will be re-interred Friday in a suburban Philadelphia cemetery....

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish immigrants killed while building a Pennsylvania railroad in 1832 - murder victims, researchers believe, of local vigilantes who buried them anonymously near the tracks - will be re-interred Friday in a suburban Philadelphia cemetery....

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish immigrants killed while building a Pennsylvania railroad in 1832 - murder victims, researchers believe, of local vigilantes who buried them anonymously near the tracks - will be re-interred Friday in a suburban Philadelphia cemetery....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists - most of whom had arrived late - a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand. They outnumbered the congregation itself: a handful of elderly black men and women wearing suits and dresses and old-fashioned pillbox hats....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists - most of whom had arrived late - a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand. They outnumbered the congregation itself: a handful of elderly black men and women wearing suits and dresses and old-fashioned pillbox hats....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists - most of whom had arrived late - a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand. They outnumbered the congregation itself: a handful of elderly black men and women wearing suits and dresses and old-fashioned pillbox hats....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities still don't know why a man armed with two semiautomatic handguns entered the lobby of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing one person and wounding seven others....

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Gospel tourists" are descending upon Harlem churches en masse, causing friction with the faithful....

BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish immigrants slain while building a Pennsylvania railroad in 1832 are being re-interred in a cemetery near Philadelphia....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Defense lawyers will begin calling witnesses in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An Albuquerque woman who had been missing for nearly a month has been found alive in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, authorities said Thursday....

SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- The abandoned school bus had no engine and no front wheels. But there were crude curtains in the windows, an air conditioner and even bunk beds inside....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not to posthumously baptize....

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ars technica: Obama admin wants warrantless access to cell phone location data by Timothy B. Lee:

A Maryland court last week ruled that the government does not need a warrant to force a cell phone provider to disclose more than six months of data on the movements of one of its customers. Two defendants had been accused of armed robbery, and a key piece of evidence against them was data about the movements of the pair's cell phones. The defendants had sought to suppress this location evidence because the government did not get a warrant before seeking the data from network providers. But last Thursday, Judge Richard D. Bennett ruled that a warrant is not required to obtain cell-site location records (CSLR) from a wireless carrier.

Courts all over the country have been wrestling with this question, and the government has been on something of a winning streak. While one court ruled last year that such information requests violate the Fourth Amendment, most others have reached the opposite conclusion.

The Obama administration laid out its position in a legal brief last month, arguing that customers have "no privacy interest" in CSLR held by a network provider. Under a legal principle known as the "third-party doctrine," information voluntarily disclosed to a third party ceases to enjoy Fourth Amendment protection. The government contends that this rule applies to cell phone location data collected by a network provider.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not to posthumously baptize....

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Coast Guard officials say they have recovered the body of the fourth crewmember that had been missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay in Alabama....