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U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Former first lady Nancy Reagan was hospitalized after falling in her home in Bel-Air but is doing well, her spokeswoman said. Reagan, 86, was taken to St. John's Health Center, where doctors determined she did not break a hip Sunday as feared, spokeswo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The church countered with a $24 million libel suit against seven former church members. The lawsuit was later dropped. Jan Royston, who left the church in 1992, started an online support group for former members to discuss their crushed faith and hurt.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 14, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen forme.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 3, 2007 @ 8:28pm neoform

Washington Post -- First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence. The Prince Group, the holding company that owns Blackwater Worldwide, has been building an operation that will sniff out intelligence about.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

CBS News -- Former astronaut Lisa Nowak is pursuing a temporary insanity defense on charges that she assaulted and tried to kidnap a romantic rival, according to a court document released Tuesday. Nowak suffered from major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The lawyer for Lisa Nowak -- the former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival -- will ask a judge Friday to throw out her statements to police, suppress evidence collected from her car and remove her ankle-bracelet monitor. The pretrial he.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:50pm neoform

BBC News -- A former Ku Klux Klan member has been convicted by a US jury of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 murder of two black teenagers. James Seale, 71, a former labourer and police officer, denied killing Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hez.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher on Bourbon Street shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday night in an apparent suicide. The body of Lance Schilling, 30, was found at a home.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

CNN -- An ex-judge who accepted expensive gifts in exchange for helping fix divorce cases and a former state lawmaker convicted in a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate were sentenced to prison Tuesday. Former Brooklyn state Supreme Court Justice Gerald.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 12:22pm neoform

CNN -- Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues. The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:21am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A small bar of radium is missing from a former uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday. The radioactive ingot, about the size of a medical gel capsule and stored in a glass vial, is not a health or secu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 10:29pm neoform

MSNBC -- The jurors who convicted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby believed Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff was set up as a fall guy, a juror said Tuesday, but they had no alternative to finding him guilty in the leak of the identity of a classifi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 10, 2006 @ 1:11pm mrmdc

www.kgw.com -- A former teacher’s assistant accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy was indicted earlier this week, according to a Longview, Wash. newspaper... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 8:55pm neoform

ABC News -- Though he is now the former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is expected to be accused of war crimes in a lawsuit to be filed next week in Germany... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:44am neoform

SF Gate -- Kearny Street in downtown San Francisco was closed for more than an hour this afternoon after a window broke on the 38th floor of the former Bank of America skyscraper. The window was accidentally broken by a construction worker who was part of a crew.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A former Peet's Coffee employee was one of two masked men arrested Saturday for robbing one of the chain's cafes in Corte Madera, police said today. Robert Merrill, 29, was arrested earlier this year for burglarizing a Peet's Coffee in San Rafael, said.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Five months after being convicted of fraud and obstructing justice, former media tycoon Conrad Black is due in court for sentencing later. The maximum sentence for Black's crimes - whose guilty verdict the British peer is appealing - is 35 years. Bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 12:40pm neoform

Reuters -- Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 3:04pm neoform

Media Matters -- At first, I was wondering whose blood was boiling hotter last week when former CBS news anchor Dan Rather announced he had filed a $70 million lawsuit against his former employer in response to Rather's unceremonious CBS exit following the botched 60 Minu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loom over the former World Trade Center site this September 11 perhaps more than at any other anniversary of the attacks. The firefighters who helped rescue New Yorkers on September 11 -- and lat.. Read More