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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outgoing Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's unconditional pardons for several convicted murderers still serving prison sentences - among more than 200 acts of clemency in all - was an unusually bold use of executive power, legal experts said on Thursday. Barbour's pardons,...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested a man who forced a 73-year-old grandmother to enter an Arkansas bank in a thwarted robbery attempt with what he told her was a bomb strapped to her ankle. Officers arrested Paul Bradley, 60, of Elkins, Arkansas, on Wednesday night at his home,...
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS Research scientists are up to something fishy. In the race to find new medical treatments, they have turned to the striped zebrafish—tiny tropical creatures that share two-thirds of their genes with humans and can be bred to carry some of the same diseases. They are...
A Hopewell police officer was arrested and charged with forcible sodomy Thursday, according to the Virginia State Police. The charge against Mark D. Baggett, 34, of the 500 block of MacArthur...
NEW YORK - (AP) -- A second drug company has confirmed it plans to market a new form of the powerful and addictive painkiller hydrocodone, worrying experts who fear a narcotics "arms race" that could worsen a national problem with prescription drug abuse. Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals says its...
Quick ReadNYC lawsuit: Diamond stolen in bold '07 London heist made its way to Hong Kong pawn shop (AP) -- A big diamond snatched by Bentley-driving bandits in a brazen, $20 million London robbery has popped up in a Hong Kong pawn shop, says a jeweler who's suing in New York to try to get it back....
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