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Man arrested after selling his grandson on Facebook

Man arrested after selling his grandson on Facebook
By Graeme McMillanProvided by Facebook is basically integrated into every part of our lives. You use it to catch up on friends' lives, meet people, find events, message people – but in a strange and more than a little unsettling story that has emerged from India – it's also a

Authorities say bomb suspects planned NYC attack

Authorities say bomb suspects planned NYC attack
By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say. The

2 beloved TV soaps revived online starting Monday

2 beloved TV soaps revived online starting Monday
By FRAZIER MOOREAP Television Writer STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Taped to a wall at the entrance to the Connecticut Film Center in Stamford is this greeting: "Welcome (back) to Pine Valley." Pine Valley, of course, is the mythical setting of "All My Children," a daytime drama that ran on ABC for nearly

2nd Miss. man investigated in ricin case

2nd Miss. man investigated in ricin case
By JEFF AMY and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSAssociated Press TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A second Mississippi man investigated in connection to ricin-laced letters sent to the president and a U.S. senator said Wednesday that investigators "ripped" through his house during an hours-long search the previous day

Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout

Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout
By PETER ENAVAssociated Press Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood into deleting

Calif. woman gets 1½-year term in funeral scam

Calif. woman gets 1½-year term in funeral scam
By GREG RISLINGAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 70-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday to 1½ years in prison and ordered to pay more than $315,000 in restitution for defrauding insurers by faking deaths and staging sham funerals while she worked at a Los Angeles mortuary. Jean Crump, 70, was

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical
By ADAM GOLDMAN, ERIC TUCKER and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical
By ADAM GOLDMAN, ERIC TUCKER and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family

Charges dropped in ricin letters sent to Obama

Charges dropped in ricin letters sent to Obama
By JEFF AMY and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSAssociated Press TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others were dropped Tuesday against an Elvis impersonator from Mississippi who has said since his arrest last week that he had nothing to do with the case.

6 NY pols being arraigned on corruption charges

6 NY pols being arraigned on corruption charges
By JIM FITZGERALDAssociated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Amid a growing perception that corruption is a serious problem in New York, six politicians are up for arraignment in a case that alleges an audacious plot to buy a line on New York City's mayoral ballot. Even one of the suspects said