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Foreign bankers charged with aiding U.S. tax evasion 13 May 08, 21:29 ET Reuters - A federal court in Florida on Tuesday unsealed a grand jury indictment charging two European bankers with helping an American billionaire real estate developer hide $200 million in assets from U.S. tax authorities, U.S. prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale said. more Calif installs 1st black female legislative leader 13 May 08, 21:00 ET AP - California on Tuesday installed the nation's first black female legislative leader, swearing in Los Angeles Democrat Karen Bass as speaker of the state Assembly. more Sect mother of newborn not a minor, Texas concedes 13 May 08, 19:52 ET AP - Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being removed from a polygamous sect's ranch, is an adult. more Woman back in prison after 32 years as a fugitive 13 May 08, 19:32 ET AP - A woman who hid her teenage crime and became a California homemaker with three children returned to a Michigan prison Tuesday to serve at least 5 1/2 more years of her drug sentence. more Immigration arrests at Iowa meat plant total 390 13 May 08, 17:56 ET Reuters - Immigration arrests at the Agriprocessors Inc meat plant in Postville, Iowa, totaled 390, making it the largest number of such arrests at a single U.S. location, an immigration official said on Tuesday. more Microsoft site offers top telescope imagery of cosmos 13 May 08, 17:50 ET AFP - Amateur astronomers Tuesday got Internet access to imagery from the best telescopes on earth and in space with a new service launched by Microsoft. more Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide 13 May 08, 15:53 ET AP - Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will be kept on file in a sealed envelope in case they decide to press charges. more Texas authorities investigate more polygamy charges 13 May 08, 15:11 ET AP - Behind guarded, ornate gates at the end of a rural road, a self-proclaimed prophet warns his followers about the end of time and rails against a dangerous and unclean world outside their West Texas compound. more Lesbian chased out of NYC bathroom settles suit 13 May 08, 14:54 ET AP - A popular restaurant has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit with a lesbian who said a bouncer chased her out of the women's bathroom and forced her to leave because she looked masculine. more Immigration raid in Iowa largest ever in US 13 May 08, 14:11 ET AP - Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history. more Military cracks down on scrap-metal scavengers 13 May 08, 13:31 ET AP - Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape. more Judge dismisses case of woman who says veil cost her claim 13 May 08, 13:08 ET AP - A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed the case of a Muslim woman who sued a judge for demanding she remove her veil in court. more Detroit council takes step toward mayor's ouster 13 May 08, 13:06 ET AP - The Detroit City Council has taken the first step toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over a scandal involving explicit text messages to his former aide. more Ex-NFL player gets five years for dealing cocaine 13 May 08, 12:54 ET Reuters - Former National Football League running back Troy Hambrick was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for trafficking crack cocaine in Florida. more Another twister reported in tornado-damaged Mo. 13 May 08, 12:40 ET AP - Another round of storms moved Tuesday into tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters. more "In the Heights" leads Broadway's Tony nominations 13 May 08, 12:38 ET Reuters - "In the Heights," an original musical written by a university student about life in a working-class New York neighborhood, led the nominations for Broadway's top theater honors, the Tony Awards, on Tuesday. more Deputies kill 2 in shootout near SoCal casino 13 May 08, 11:38 ET AP - Deputies shot and killed two people who had opened fire near an Indian casino in Southern California and had fired at a sheriff's helicopter as officers chased them into the hills of the reservation. more Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82 13 May 08, 11:18 ET AP - Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, a his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82. more Survivors remain linked by drunken driving tragedy 13 May 08, 10:52 ET AP - One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror. more Man jailed when daughter fails to get diploma 13 May 08, 07:11 ET AP - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma. more Fashion students at Va. university design abayas 13 May 08, 06:25 ET AP - The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries. more Wildfires force evacuations in central Florida 13 May 08, 01:20 ET AP - Dry, windy weather fueled several wildfires on Florida's central Atlantic coast Monday, damaging more than 50 homes and driving hundreds of residents away as the governor declared a state of emergency. more 28 million women at risk of unwanted pregnancy 13 May 08, 00:40 ET Reuters - Each year, half of American women who would rather not get pregnant will have an unplanned pregnancy, often because they failed to use their contraceptive properly or forgot to use it at all, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. more Gay rights groups launch hospital rating system 13 May 08, 00:04 ET AP - Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients. more

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