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• Jury convicts 3 officers in post-Katrina death (AP)
• Jury begins deliberations in Smart kidnapping case (AP)
• Life expectancy slips, stroke dips to No. 4 killer (AP)
• The U.S.'s Weak Legal Case Against WikiLeaks (Time.com)
• Supreme Court to Review Walmart Gender-Bias Class Action (Time.com)
• Authorities burn down explosive-laden CA house (AP)
• No verdict yet in 1975 reservation slaying trial (AP)
• Abortion rights foes look to spread fetal pain law (AP)
• Friends sought to solve rich publicist's slaying (AP)
• Warrants detail torture of Ala. kids buried by dad (AP)
• Md. bomb plot suspect clashed with mom over views (AP)
• Doors' Jim Morrison pardoned for indecent exposure (AP)
• Feds: Va Tech broke law in '07 shootings response (AP)
• 3 killed in explosion at W.Va. chemical plant (AP)
• Terrorist to appeals court: life term is too harsh (AP)
• Imprisoned heir to du Pont chemical fortune dies (AP)
• Police: Man claims he's a vampire, burns V on teen (AP)
• Teen charged in parents murder in southwest Fla. (AP)
• Imam behind NYC mosque plan sees hope after fury (AP)

Jury convicts 3 officers in post-Katrina death (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 06:00 PM PST AP - A federal jury on Thursday convicted three current or former New Orleans police officers but acquitted two others in the death of a man during Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath.

Jury begins deliberations in Smart kidnapping case (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 06:09 PM PST AP - A jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a nomadic street preacher charged with the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, after hearing federal prosecutors call him a "predatory chameleon" and defense lawyers say he's too delusional to be convicted.

Life expectancy slips, stroke dips to No. 4 killer (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 06:16 PM PST AP - U.S. life expectancy has dropped slightly — by about a month — after mostly inching up for many years, the government reported Thursday.

The U.S.'s Weak Legal Case Against WikiLeaks (Time.com) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 12:05 PM PST Time.com - Thanks to nearly a century of cases dealing with the clash between national security and the freedom of the press, the Constitution provides enormous protection for publishers of state secrets

Supreme Court to Review Walmart Gender-Bias Class Action (Time.com) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 12:05 PM PST Time.com - The court's decision to review the class-action status looks suspiciously like another case in which the court's conservative majority will twist a procedural rule to prevent victims of discrimination from getting a fair chance at justice

Authorities burn down explosive-laden CA house (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:33 PM PST AP - In the end, there were no big explosions. No flames leaping from house to house. Just residents, watching anxiously as a house packed with explosives in their neighborhood went up in flames.

No verdict yet in 1975 reservation slaying trial (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:57 PM PST AP - Jurors deciding the fate of a man charged in the 1975 slaying of an American Indian Movement activist finished their first day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict.

Abortion rights foes look to spread fetal pain law (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:38 PM PST AP - Abortion rights foes emboldened by a new Nebraska law that restricts late-term procedures based on the disputed notion that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks are pushing for similar legislation in other states, particularly those where Republicans won big in November.

Friends sought to solve rich publicist's slaying (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:53 PM PST AP - With no witnesses, no motive and almost no leads, the investigation into the slaying of a prominent Hollywood publicist appeared to be at a dead end. So Ronni Chasen's friends went the Hollywood route and sought help from a popular TV show.

Warrants detail torture of Ala. kids buried by dad (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:33 PM PST AP - An Alabama man charged with murdering his two young children allowed the kids' stepmother to torture them by binding the little boy and girl with duct tape, stuffing one in a suitcase and forcing the other to stand in a corner all night, according to arrest warrants.

Md. bomb plot suspect clashed with mom over views (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:21 PM PST AP - Antonio Martinez and his mother clashed over his increasingly radical views. He began calling himself Muhammad Hussain but never got around to legally changing his name.

Doors' Jim Morrison pardoned for indecent exposure (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST AP - Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida's Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors' long-dead singer Thursday.

Feds: Va Tech broke law in '07 shootings response (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - Federal education officials have rejected Virginia Tech's arguments that its response to a deadly 2007 shooting rampage at the campus met standards in place at the time, echoing previous findings that the university broke the law and should be fined.

3 killed in explosion at W.Va. chemical plant (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:35 PM PST AP - An explosion rocked a small chemical plant in West Virginia's northern panhandle, killing three workers and injuring one other person, police and company officials said Thursday.

Terrorist to appeals court: life term is too harsh (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST AP - The life prison term given to a U.S. man who joined al-Quaida and plotted to assassinate then-President George W. Bush was unreasonably harsh when compared to sentences in comparable terrorism cases, the man's lawyer told a federal appeals court Thursday.

Imprisoned heir to du Pont chemical fortune dies (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST AP - John du Pont, the chemical fortune heir who killed an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler at his palatial estate near Philadelphia, died Thursday after being found unresponsive in his prison cell. He was 72.

Police: Man claims he's a vampire, burns V on teen (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 10:36 AM PST AP - Police in Alabama say a 20-year-old man who believes he is a vampire and goes by the nickname "Vamp" is accused of burning a "V" into a teenager's forehead.

Teen charged in parents murder in southwest Fla. (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 01:48 PM PST AP - A 14-year-old in southwest Florida has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder after his parents were found dead in their bedroom.

Imam behind NYC mosque plan sees hope after fury (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:28 AM PST AP - Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf saw his plans for an Islamic center near ground zero derided as a victory mosque for terrorists, exploited as campaign fodder and used as a bargaining chip by a Florida pastor who vowed to burn the Quran.

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