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Hezbollah: Syria will arm militia

BEIRUT – Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militant group said Thursday, less than a week after Israeli airstrikes on Damascus targeted allege...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Dead Boston bombing suspect is buried WORCESTER, Mass. – The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entombed in an unknown gravesite Thursday after police s...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ohio captive suffered 5 miscarriages

CLEVELAND – Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he imp...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Minn. House approves gay marriage; would be 12th

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A historic vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a l...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tunisian man denies N.Y. terror cell plot claims

NEW YORK – A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terro...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston chief: Wasn’t told FBI got Tsarnaev warning

WASHINGTON – The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month’s marathon bombings, despite the work of four city po...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ohio man’s ex-relatives describe abusive behavior

CLEVELAND – A man accused of keeping three women captive in his run-down home for about a decade and raping them repeatedly had terrorized the mother of his children years earlier, beating h...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Karzai agrees to 9 U.S. bases

Troop presence would persist after 2014 in Afghanistan

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Widow of Boston bomb suspect hires criminal lawyer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a prominent criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases as she continues to face que...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NYC Council OKs sick days plan, seen as key step

NEW YORK – In a significant victory amid a push for paid sick time laws around the country, city lawmakers voted Wednesday to make businesses provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million wo...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Charlie Brown’ actor to serve sentence in rehab

SAN DIEGO – The man who was the original voice of Charlie Brown in “Peanuts” television specials was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking ...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Enron’s Skilling could see sentence cut by 10 years

HOUSTON – Convicted ex-Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s more than 24-year prison sentence for his role in the once mighty energy giant’s collapse could be reduced by as many as 10 years if...

DATE: May 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World