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Judges rule ‘millennium bomber’ sentence too lenient
LOS ANGELES — The 22-year prison sentence given to would-be Los Angeles International Airport bomber Ahmed Ressam is so lenient that it constitutes procedural error and failure by the Seattle judge who sentenced him to adequately protect the public, a federal ...
Family allowed to sue California Highway Patrol over release of crash...
SANTA ANA, Calif. — An appeals court has given an Orange County family the go-ahead to sue the California Highway Patrol over graphic accident-scene photos its officers leaked to the public...
Americans split over whether Obama has taken on too much
WASHINGTON — Americans hold mixed views of President Barack Obama's...
Pilot errors cited in crash that killed 50 near Buffalo, N.Y.
WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday the pilots of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., nearly a year ago made mistakes that showed their "complacency and confusion that resulted in ...
Official: U.S. had to push Toyota into safety recall
WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday that it had taken "an enormous effort" to get Toyota to recall vehicles in the United States, and said federal regulators were not done with their investigations...
Obama seeks funds to buy Illinois prison to house Guantanamo detainees
WASHINGTON — If Congress signs off on the money to purchase the Thomson prison in Illinois, it could see its first federal inmates by mid-2011, a Justice Department official said...
Americans jailed in Haiti were not trafficking children, fellow congregants say
MERIDIAN, Idaho — The church members left this Boise suburb the night of Jan 21...
Debate over terror trial continues as suspect again cooperates
WASHINGTON — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, arrested last Christmas for trying to explode a bomb on a plane arriving in Detroit...
Lawsuit alleges Toyota has history of hiding safety concerns
LOS ANGELES — As Toyota Motor Corp...
Plan to end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ meets with soldiers’ skepticism
PHILADELPHIA — They served in combat in Iraq, depended on comrades in life-and-death situations, and appreciate the contributions of gay men and women in the armed forces...
Sister of Peterson’s ex-wife says she was told of death threat
CHICAGO — Six weeks before she was found drowned in her dry bathtub, a "very upset" Kathleen Savio arrived unannounced at her older sister's Romeoville home to extract a promise...
Auction house sells purported diary of infamous Nazi doctor
STAMFORD, Conn. — An auctioneer of historic documents said Tuesday that he sold a journal written by Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi Holocaust's "Angel of Death," to the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor...
