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| 09/10/2010 Foxy Brown pleads not guilty to NY court violation
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| AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded not guilty to charges of violating a court order stemming from a 2007 confrontation with her neighbor in New York City.
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| 09/10/2010 Virginia Woman Faces Execution amid Calls for Leniency
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| Time.com - Having pleaded guilty to the 2002 murder of her husband and stepson, Teresa Lewis is scheduled to be put to death on Sept. 23. Will the governor grant her clemency?
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| 09/10/2010 Celebrity adviser pleads guilty in NYC to fraud
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| AP - A financial adviser who has worked for Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese pleaded guilty to fraud charges Friday, admitting cheating wealthy and elderly clients out of tens of millions of dollars in what his lawyer said was a "colossal error in judgment."
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| 09/10/2010 'Granddad Bandit' pleads not guilty in Va.
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| AP - The suspect in bank robberies across the U.S. who was nicknamed the "Granddad Bandit" by the FBI has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Virginia.
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| 09/10/2010 Islamic charity co-founder convicted on tax charge
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| AP - The co-founder of an Islamic charity has been convicted of charges related to helping smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya.
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| 09/09/2010 LA gang member convicted in hate-crime murder
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| AP - A Latino gang member was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the racially motivated shooting death of a 14-year-old black girl and the stabbing death of a potential witness.
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| 09/09/2010 NY judge: No guardian for copper heiress, 104
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| AP - There's no proof that a reclusive, 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper fortune needs a court-appointed guardian, a judge said Thursday in rebuffing a request from relatives who fear her lawyer and accountant are manipulating the aged multimillionaire for their benefit.
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| 09/09/2010 Austrian kidnap victim draws crowds to book reading
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| Reuters - Hundreds of people crammed into a Vienna bookstore on Thursday to hear kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch read from her newly published memoirs about her eight years of imprisonment as a sex slave.
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| 09/09/2010 Co-owner of missing painting charged with fraud
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| AP - A con man carried out an "inartful fraud" when he fooled an art collector into thinking they were partners in the $1.1 million purchase of a missing painting but was actually ripping the investor off, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
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| 09/09/2010 U.S. appeals court puts on hold stem cell funding ban
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| Reuters - A U.S. appeals court granted on Thursday an Obama administration request to temporarily lift a judge's ban on federal funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells.
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| 09/09/2010 Has California Supreme Court ruling 'wiped out' Prop. 8 opposition?
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| The Christian Science Monitor - The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have no legal obligation to defend Proposition 8. The 2008 voter-approved measure banning same sex marriage was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge on Aug. 3.
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| 09/09/2010 Atty: Wife of imprisoned ex-Ill. gov. terminal
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 AP - The 76-year-old wife of imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan has a terminal lung disease, Ryan's attorney told a judge Thursday as he sought bail for Ryan while the judge considers a request to toss part of his corruption conviction.
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| 09/09/2010 Austria kidnap victim book launch draws big crowd
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| AP - Amid tight security and applause, an Austrian kidnap victim presented a book about her 8 1/2 year ordeal Thursday, saying she wrote it to start a new life.
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| 09/09/2010 Hawaii human trafficking guilty plea rejected
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| AP - The owners of Hawaii's second-largest farm accused of exploiting 44 imported laborers from Thailand changed their plea to not guilty Thursday rather than face a possible prison sentence up to five years.
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| 09/09/2010 US court lifts ban on state-funding for stem cell research
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 AFP - A US appeals court suspended Thursday a ban on state-funding for embryonic stem cell research pending a full appeal of the case, in a major boost to President Barack Obama's administration.
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| 09/09/2010 Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit
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 AP - A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.
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| 09/08/2010 Man convicted of torching Calif. woman over drugs
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| AP - One of four men accused of kidnapping and burning a California woman to death over a pound of pot has been found guilty of murder.
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| 09/08/2010 MTV's `Snooki' fined $500 for bothering beachgoers
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 AP - Calling her "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe," a judge fined "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi $500 on Wednesday and ordered her to perform community service after she pleaded guilty to disturbing others on a beach in July.
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| 09/08/2010 Court won't order California to defend Prop 8
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 AP - California's highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal a federal ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.
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| 09/08/2010 CIA rendition: US court throws out torture case, citing state secrets
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to hold a government contractor partly responsible for a secret CIA program to whisk terror suspects to undisclosed prisons overseas for brutal interrogations.
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