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| FBI arrest 37-year-old man in Washington state ricin letter investigation |
The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks. |
| Hand of Lincoln: Abe's note saving teen soldier up for sale |
A hastily scrawled note by President Abraham Lincoln just two months before his assassination ordering a disabled 14-year-old boy released from the army in response to a plea from the boy’s father went on sale Thursday in Philadelphia. |
| Chicken fight: Study backs farmer in pollution battle with EPA |
The Environmental Protection Agency has overestimated the levels of water pollution on poultry farms by as much as half according to a recent study by the University of Delaware. |
| Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay members |
The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. |
| NYPD: Merchant held for ransom, tortured for month |
| New York police say three accomplices to a brutal monthlong kidnapping of a businessman have fled to Ecuador. |
| AP, others fight for details in Maine girl's death |
| News organizations are challenging a judge's decision to keep the public from seeing details of how and why police believe a 15-year-old girl from Maine was killed by a 20-year-old man. |
| Manson disciple's tapes being analyzed by LAPD |
| Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney. |
| NH woman convicted of child porn gets 40 years |
| A New Hampshire woman convicted of using her teenage daughter to produce child pornography has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. |
| Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive |
| The attorney for a New York man imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s says his client doesn't have the virus that causes AIDS. |
| 2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tenn.-Ala. border |
| Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing. |
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