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MENDOTA, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a clothes dryer at the teen's home.... Voters in NC's largest city elect Democratic mayorCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Voters have narrowly elected a Democrat to lead Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city.... School moves to tighten security after gang rapeRICHMOND, Calif. (AP) -- Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing.... Police: 3 ND college students found dead in pondDICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- Three missing North Dakota college softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep pulled from a 12-foot deep farm pond, and police said they believed the women were inside the vehicle when they made two desperate calls to friends for help.... La. justice resigns after interracial wed flapBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.... Body count at rapist's Cleveland home rises to 10CLEVELAND (AP) -- The number of bodies found in and near a rapist's home rose to at least 10 on Tuesday when authorities unearthed four corpses from the backyard and found a skull in a bucket in the basement.... Obituaries in the newsBernerd Harding... Parents of slain Calif. student stunned by billSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.... Police: CO man made up knife attack to miss workEDGEWATER, Colo. (AP) -- Police in the Denver suburb of Edgewater say a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy to miss work.... Judge orders redaction of polygamist documentsELDORADO, Texas (AP) -- A Texas judge ordered Tuesday that a document showing a member of a polygamist sect had at least four wives who were pregnant or nursing at the same time should be excluded from his trial on charges of child sexual abuse.... |
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