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DNA frees Texas man imprisoned for 27 years 29 Apr 08, 23:32 ET Reuters - A man walked out of a Dallas court on Tuesday after DNA testing overturned his conviction over 27 years ago for the murder and rape of his girlfriend, local media reported. more Ex-UCLA hospital worker accused of selling celebs' records 29 Apr 08, 21:32 ET AP - A former UCLA Medical Center employee was indicted on charges that she accessed the records of dozens of high-profile patients and selling the information to a media outlet, prosecutors said Tuesday. more More text messages revealed in Detroit mayor sex scandal 29 Apr 08, 21:26 ET AP - A series of often explicit text messages from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff appear to show she had a long-term romantic relationship with the mayor and that he played a role in the firing of a police officer who sued the city. more Gates says 2nd carrier in Gulf is 'reminder' to Iran 29 Apr 08, 21:07 ET AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the latest move to add a second U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran. But he says it's not an escalation of force. more FLDS teen gives birth to boy as state officials stand by 29 Apr 08, 20:19 ET AP - One of the hundreds of young polygamist-sect members taken into state custody gave birth Tuesday to a healthy boy while child welfare officials, state troopers and fellow sect members stood watch outside the maternity ward. more Guantanamo cases aimed to pique U.S. imagination 29 Apr 08, 20:03 ET Reuters - A Pentagon legal adviser accused of improperly influencing the Guantanamo war crimes prosecutions dictated which cases would be tried based on how likely they were to pique U.S. public interest, a prosecutor testified on Tuesday. more Court martial witness describes shooting of unarmed Iraqi 29 Apr 08, 19:24 ET AP - An Army medic testified at a court-martial Tuesday that after he told his sergeant a wounded insurgent was going to die, the sergeant ordered him to suffocate the Iraqi and then killed the man himself. more Major Mexican drug dealer gets life in U.S. prison 29 Apr 08, 18:57 ET Reuters - The suspected leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a U.S. district court judge for trafficking and money laundering, the Department of Justice said. more Judge says SLA member Sara Jane Olson must remain in prison 29 Apr 08, 18:51 ET AP - A judge has refused to free a former 1970s radical and longtime fugitive who was sent back to prison days after state corrections officials released her by mistake. more Inmate's confession solves Vt. woman's 1976 disappearance 29 Apr 08, 18:43 ET AP - For 32 years, Iris L. Brown's family lived in limbo, not knowing what happened to her after she was kidnapped in 1976. more Texas police think person lived with dead skeleton on couch 29 Apr 08, 18:25 ET AP - The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while other people continued living in the house, authorities said. more US Jewish leaders call for boycott of Beijing Olympics 29 Apr 08, 17:37 ET AP - A wide-ranging group of U.S. Jewish leaders plans to release a statement Wednesday urging Jews worldwide to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing, citing China's troubling record on human rights and Tibet. more Families sue undertakers in body parts scandal 29 Apr 08, 17:25 ET Reuters - Families who claim the corpses of more than 1,000 relatives were dismembered and sold in an illegal body-parts scandal sued funeral directors and others on Tuesday. more How Jeremiah Wright Found Religion 29 Apr 08, 16:45 ET Time.com - The theology of Obama's former pastor helped reestablish Christianity's vibrant role in the life of black America more Chemo fails to root out breast cancer stem cells: study 29 Apr 08, 16:43 ET AFP - While chemotherapy can remove breast cancer tumors, it fails to root out the stem cells that can revive the cancer, researchers said in a study published Tuesday. more "Hypermiling" drives savings as fuel costs soar 29 Apr 08, 16:38 ET Reuters - As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel. more Test-prep company settles in dispute over SAT questions 29 Apr 08, 16:01 ET AP - A Texas test-preparation company accused of improperly using SAT and PSAT practice questions to help prepare its customers will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the tests' owner, including a donation of $400,000 worth of tutoring for low-income high school students. more Report: S.C. teen spent day of slayings with friend 29 Apr 08, 15:36 ET AP - A teen accused of killing his family spent the hours after the slayings riding four-wheelers with a friend and buying steaks for dinner, the friend's grandmother said Tuesday. more Sudden energy crunch forces Juneau to conserve electricity 29 Apr 08, 14:16 ET AP - First, there was a run on energy-efficient light bulbs. When those ran out, people began asking for lamp oil. But when they started demanding clothespins in this land of mist and rain, it was clear Alaska's capital city was caught in a serious energy crunch. more Heparin contamination appears deliberate: Baxter CEO 29 Apr 08, 13:49 ET AFP - The chief of US drug maker Baxter International said Tuesday its blood thinner heparin produced in China, which has been linked to dozens of deaths, appears to have been deliberately contaminated. more Rising gas prices Americans' top economic woe: survey 29 Apr 08, 13:15 ET AFP - The spiraling cost of gasoline tops a long and growing list of Americans' economic woes, with consumers also stressed by the rising cost of health care, food, and housing, according to a national survey released Tuesday. more Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing 29 Apr 08, 13:04 ET AP - A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming. more Dallas man freed by DNA testing after 27 years in prison 29 Apr 08, 12:43 ET AP - A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing more La. parish president still facing lawsuits over Katrina 29 Apr 08, 10:26 ET AP - On the eve of Hurricane Katrina, massive pumps that keep water out of this New Orleans suburb went silent when the roughly 100 workers who run them were allowed to flee under a "doomsday" evacuation plan. more Shark expert: Autopsy confirms great white killed triathlete 29 Apr 08, 08:52 ET AP - A shark expert says an autopsy has confirmed a great white killed a triathlete in the waters off San Diego County last week. more Millionaires' appetite for stocks rising: study 29 Apr 08, 08:30 ET Reuters - Millionaires view the U.S. economy as "very weak," but sense a resumption of growth in early 2009 and expect to buy stocks and real-estate in the latest indication that a recovery may be imminent, according to a study released on Tuesday. more Foreclosures jump for seventh straight quarter 29 Apr 08, 07:15 ET Reuters - Home foreclosure filings jumped 23 percent in the first quarter from the prior quarter, and more than doubled from a year earlier, as more overextended borrowers failed to make timely payments, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday. more Union and states try recruiting farm workers from Mexico 29 Apr 08, 04:55 ET AP - Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms. more Families, CEOs to testify on tainted heparin 29 Apr 08, 02:03 ET Reuters - People who lost relatives to deadly reactions from the blood-thinner heparin are set to testify on Tuesday before U.S. lawmakers probing contamination of the drug made with raw ingredients imported from China. more Quarter of kids don't meet vaccine schedule 29 Apr 08, 00:31 ET Reuters - More than a quarter of American children are not meeting the U.S. government's recommendations for childhood vaccinations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said on Tuesday. more 31 of 53 teen girls at FLDS ranch are pregnant or had baby 29 Apr 08, 00:24 ET AP - More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday. more Report faults many states on child abuse policies 29 Apr 08, 00:18 ET AP - Many states often fail to release adequate information about fatal and near-fatal child abuse cases, placing confidentiality above disclosure to a degree that thwarts needed reforms, two child advocacy groups say in a new report. more Dolphin dies after aerial collision at Discovery Cove 29 Apr 08, 00:16 ET AP - A dolphin died over the weekend at a SeaWorld sister park after colliding with another dolphin during a guest interaction program. more

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