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NEW YORK - A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result — a mistrial for John "Junior" Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last. Full Story »
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RISING SUN, Ind. - Showing no emotion and with his parents a few blocks from the courthouse, an Indiana teenager pleaded not guilty to killing his 10-year-old brother. His mother and father were greeting mourners who came to pay respects to their slain younger son. Full Story »
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - New details on the response to the first shootings of what would become the Virginia Tech massacre show that at least two administrators alerted their family members well before the rest of the campus was notified that a gunman was on the loose. Full Story »
DETROIT - A Flint woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter to death and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter. Full Story »
CHICAGO - A defense attorney for Rod Blagojevich says the former Illinois governor will take the stand at his fraud trial but claim his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify in a $90 million civil suit. Full Story »
NEW YORK - A defense attorney with a high-profile client list was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday for plotting with a Guyanese businessman to use bribes and threats to silence witnesses in the businessman's drug-trafficking case. Full Story »
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The campaign manager for longtime U.S. Rep. Chris Shays pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he embezzled about $250,000 in campaign funds. Full Story »
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A judge says prosecutors don't have to disclose before trial any payments from a federal informant to four men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues. Full Story »
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PERUGIA, Italy (AFP) - Italian jurors withdrew Friday to decide whether 22-year-old American Amanda Knox should spend the rest of her days in prison for the 2007 murder of her British housemate. Full Story »
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Lawyers for a former stripper convicted of a murder conspiracy asked the Alaska Court of Appeals to overturn her conviction because a jury was allowed to read a victim's "letter from the grave." Full Story »
WARWICK, R.I. - A federal prosecutor from Rhode Island has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving after police decided to charge him following questions about whether he was let off the hook because of his connections. Full Story »
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NEW YORK - A New Jersey blogger crossed the line protecting free speech by writing that three federal judges in Chicago "must die" for a decision supporting gun control, a prosecutor said Friday, as the defense countered in closing arguments that giving a passionate opinion is not a crime. Full Story »
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GSTAAD, Switzerland (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski was released on bail into house arrest at his Swiss chalet on Friday while he fights extradition to the U.S. over a 1977 charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Full Story »
NEWARK, N.J. - One of the New Jersey politicians arrested in a corruption sweep last summer has pleaded not guilty. Full Story »
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. - A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing to death two Army buddies at their apartment fled to Ohio in a car belonging to one victim and admitted to an investigator that he killed them, authorities said Friday. Full Story »
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GSTAAD, Switzerland (AFP) - Roman Polanski settled down with his family at his snowbound Swiss chalet on Friday, after being placed under house arrest while he fights extradition to the United States on a child sex case. Full Story »
Film director Roman Polanski will be confined to his chalet in the Alpine village of Gstaad until the Swiss decide if he will be extradited to the United States for a 32-year-old sex case. Here are some details about the exclusive winter resort: Full Story »
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A judge in Florida wants footage to be turned over to the court so he can decide on a motion to dismiss a civil suit against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis. Full Story »
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