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NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Friday released the Los Angeles Police Department from a decade-long consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that was aimed at ensuring reforms after a corruption scandal. Full Story »
AP NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress bought the gun she used to kill him from a convicted murderer whose fiancee was afraid to have it in the house, authorities said Friday. Full Story »
AP TEXARKANA, Ark. - A woman who said evangelist Tony Alamo had sexually abused her since she was 8 acknowledged to jurors Friday that she hates him, but said the reason she agreed to testify was because she is afraid he will molest her little sister. Full Story »
AP TRENTON, N.J. - The last time Monique Hosendove spoke to her brother, Hassan Shakur, she begged him to turn himself into South Carolina police. Full Story »
AP CONCORD, N.H. - A Massachusetts teenager who spent three nights alone on Mount Washington in April after he sprained an ankle and veered off marked trails has been fined more than $25,000 for the cost of his rescue. Full Story »
ATLANTA - Metro Atlanta and its 4 million residents have almost no rights to a massive federal reservoir and must stop taking water from it within three years unless Congress authorizes continued withdrawals, a federal judge ruled Friday. Full Story »
AP COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford shed his fiscal conservatism on several taxpayer-funded international trips, including a South American jaunt that included time with his mistress, choosing expensive first-class or business-class seats while his aides sat in coach. Full Story »
AP OTISFIELD, Maine - The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night. Town officials also threatened to chain themselves to the blue box if necessary. Full Story »
AP RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Ben Novack Jr. grew up in the penthouse of Miami Beach's famous Fontainebleau Hotel, pampered by the staff, patted on the head by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, and whisked off to school in a limousine. Full Story »
AP MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - A waterfront mansion known as the "North Bay Road Castle" for its quirky medieval decor was engulfed in flames on Friday in a morning blaze that authorities said spread quickly throughout the sprawling home. Full Story »
Gunmen have seized three foreign aid workers in northern Kenya and taken them across the border into Somalia, a security official said Saturday. Full Story »
The big banks are making big money again, but they won't be back to health as long as they have to deal with a recession and customers defaulting on mortgages and credit cards. Full Story »
President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to "lose heart" Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans. Full Story »
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