UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report released Monday includes Syrian government forces and their allied “shabiha” militias for the first time on a list of 52 governments and armed groups that recruit, kill or sexually attack children in armed conflict…
BEIRUT (AP) — The United States accused the Syrian government of using “new horrific tactics” Monday, as U.N. observers reported Syrian helicopters were firing on rebellious areas and concerns mounted that civilians were trapped in besieged cities.
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NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A Ukrainian man who federal prosecutors said may be the most significant distributor of child pornography ever prosecuted in the United States was charged in New Jersey on Monday with operating a network of websites.
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BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (AP) — The first witness in Jerry Sandusky’s trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotels and later sent him “creepy love letters.”
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SEATTLE (AP) — After an investigation that stretched from a Seattle restaurant to Romania, a 21-year-old Dutch national pleaded not guilty Monday to federal computer hacking charges that include the theft of at least 44,000 credit card numbers.
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Jerry Sandusky’s trial in the Penn State scandal opened in graphic fashion Monday with the first witness testifying that he endured five years of molestation…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supermodel Petra Nemcova has been named ambassador at large for Haiti because of the charity work she’s done through her nonprofit group the Happy Hearts Fund.
The Czech Republic citizen received the h…
Firefighters battling an out-of-control northern Colorado blaze have increased the number of structures destroyed or damaged from 18 to at least 118….
PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — It was the stuff of a major film studio’s next animation project: Nine African baby elephants orphaned after their parents were poached, but then miraculously rescued to a wild game park in Latin America. In the highlands of cen…
