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MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A tattooed man with a goatee shakes five dice in a black cup, slams it down on the bar and watches as they come to rest among half-full beer bottles and empty shot glasses. "Nothin," he says in disgust as he quickly slaps down a $20 bill to buy another round of drinks, in a U.S. ritual of beer drinking …

Washington State junior wide receiver Marquess Wilson said Saturday he left the school's football program earlier this week because of alleged abuse by the coaching staff. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my decision to forgo playing football for Washington State University," Wilson said in a statement. "I realize …

OCEANPORT, New Jersey (Reuters) - It is hard to sleep at night inside the tent city at Oceanport, New Jersey. A few hundred Superstorm Sandy refugees have been living here since Wednesday - a muddy camp that is a sprawling anomaly amidst Mercedes Benz dealerships and country clubs in this town near the state's devastated …

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to review a legal challenge to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 to protect African-American voters who had faced decades of discrimination at the polls. The court's decision comes just days after a presidential election in which Latino and African-American …

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Former Democratic U.S. Representative Jay Inslee will be Washington state's next governor after Republican state Attorney General Rob McKenna conceded defeat on Friday. Inslee, who was first elected to Congress in 1999, resigned in March to run for the governorship after Democratic incumbent Christine …

(Reuters) - A Georgia woman has accused the chairman of the Waffle House restaurant chain of sexually harassing her for close to a decade while working as his personal aide and housekeeper. The allegations against Joseph Rogers Jr were detailed in a police incident report published online on Friday by the Marietta Daily …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI investigation that led to the discovery of CIA Director David Petraeus' affair with author Paula Broadwell was sparked by "suspicious emails" that initially did not contain any connection to Petraeus, U.S. law enforcement and security officials told Reuters on Saturday. But the CIA director's …

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Washington state's two most populous counties plan to dismiss scores of misdemeanor marijuana possession cases following passage of a landmark voter initiative earlier this week to legalize pot for adult recreational use. Washington and Colorado became the first U.S. states to remove criminal …

(Reuters) - New York City was preparing to stage its first major event since cancelling its annual marathon as thousands of victims of Superstorm Sandy continued to struggle with power outages, gasoline shortages and freezing weather conditions. Sunday's annual Veterans Day Parade is expected to attract crowds of over 600,000 …

(Reuters) - An Ohio lawyer who created sexually explicit images of children as part of a legal defense in child pornography trials must pay the children's parents $300,000, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Dean Boland, the lawyer at the center of the case, did not respond to requests for comment. In 2004, Boland …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An offer of a partial plea by the U.S. Army private accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks appears to be a two-pronged defense strategy that seeks to win sympathy from the judge and to shift the focus of the trial to charges that are more difficult to prove, legal experts said. The offer from the …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police arrested a man on Friday accused of raping a mentally disabled 18-year-old woman on a county bus as it rolled through a Los Angeles suburb during rush hour, two days after the crime stunned America's second-largest city. Kerry Trotter, 20, was taken into custody at a Los Angeles home after …

(Reuters) - Bankrupt AMR Corp, parent of American Airlines, has agreed with its pilots' union on language for a new labor deal to be voted on by union members, the union announced on Friday. AMR has been in talks with the Allied Pilots Association as it tries to reduce labor costs and emerge from bankruptcy. The APA's board …

(Reuters) - The husband of an Iraqi-American woman who was beaten to death near San Diego in March in a killing initially probed as a possible anti-Muslim hate crime has been arrested for her murder, police said on Friday. Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, was found bludgeoned to death in her home in the San …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration gave states extra time to work toward setting up new health insurance exchanges on Friday, days after President Barack Obama's re-election ensured the survival of his healthcare reform law. The move is seen as a concession to dozens of states that delayed compliance with the …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a New York man who helped a presidential memorabilia collector steal thousands of rare documents to a year and a day in prison on Friday, prosecutors said. Jason Savedoff, 25, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft charges for stealing documents that included copies of …

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A teenage California girl searching for a cell phone signal to call her mother in a rural area outside San Diego inadvertently stepped into a nest of rattlesnakes and was bitten six times, but survived. The 16-year-old, Vera Oliphant, spent four days in the intensive care unit of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, …

TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Two wounded survivors of a shooting rampage that killed 16 Afghan villagers are set to recount the experience on Friday at a U.S. military hearing to decide if a decorated soldier accused of murder in the case will face a court martial. Military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for …