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RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee

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By ERIKA NIEDOWSKIAssociated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's economic development agency on Thursday sued former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and some of its former officials, saying they committed fraud and other acts that misled the state into approving a $75 million loan

RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 1st

Ex-Penn St. president charged in Sandusky case

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By MARK SCOLFOROAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The "conspiracy of silence" that protected Jerry Sandusky extended all the way to the top at Penn State, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged former university President Graham Spanier with hushing up child sexual abuse allegations

Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in terror plot

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By DENISE LAVOIEAP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. Rezwan Ferdaus, 27, of Ashland, pleaded guilty in July to attempting

Greek publisher acquitted in privacy case

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By DALTON BENNETT and FANIS KARABATSAKISAssociated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A magazine publisher was acquitted on Thursday of breaching privacy laws by printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in the nearly bankrupt

Prosecutor: Kids slain in Illinois begged to live

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By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETTAssociated Press NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago woman ordered her 7-year-old son and a kindergartner she was babysitting to kneel on a bedroom floor and pray, then stabbed them both dozens of times as they begged for their lives, striking again and

Spain: 3 dead, 2 hurt in Halloween party stampede

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By HAROLD HECKLEAssociated Press MADRID (AP) - A stampede in an arena where thousands of people were attending a Halloween dance party killed three women and critically injured two others early Thursday, officials said. It happened just after 4 a.m. in a passageway within the venue leading to

Derailed tanker burns in Ky. with no end in sight

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By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVANAssociated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The blaze that authorities initially said would end in a couple of hours instead spewed flames and smoke from a derailed tanker car for a second day Thursday with no end in sight, as crews scrambled to prevent it from

Busy US-Mexico border crossing gets makeover

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By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A rerouting of tens of thousands of vehicles a day began Thursday without a hitch at the busiest crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a major expansion that aims to keep lines manageable while allowing heightened inspections for drugs,

Video: Boy influenced by plot in television show

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A 10-year-old boy told police that he figured that if he killed his neo Nazi father, he might not get in trouble because that's what happened on a television program he had watched. "A bad father did something to his kids and the kid did the exact same thing I did - he