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Registered sex offender charged with murder of 13-year-old Florida girl

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 18,2005 12:20 a.m.

RUSKIN, Fla. -- A registered sex offender confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago, saying he got into an argument with her and he choked her to death in her home, the sheriff said Sunday. David Onstott, 36, was charged with first-degree murder Sunday, a day after investigators found Sarah Lunde's partially clothed body in an abandoned fish pond, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said.

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Oregon judges repeal gay marriage licenses

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, April 15,2005 12:21 a.m.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year ago by Portland's Multnomah County, saying a county cannot go against state matrimonial law. "Oregon law currently places the regulation of marriage exclusively within the province of the state's legislative power," the high court said in its unanimous ruling.

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4 charged in oil-for-food scandal

By Alyson Brodsy and Larry Neumeister · Friday, April 15,2005 12:20 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Four more people were charged Thursday in the scandal in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including a Texas oil executive and a South Korean businessman who was at the center of a 1970s corruption case involving Congress. The indictment also suggested that money skimmed from the oil program might have ended up in the hands of two U.N. officials. Their names were not released.

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Congress passes bankruptcy legislation after 8 year battle

By Alyson Brodsy and Marcy Gordon · Friday, April 15,2005 12:19 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of people who want to wipe out their debts in bankruptcy court would have to work out repayment plans instead under legislation Congress approved Thursday. A 302-126 vote by the House sent the legislation to President Bush, who is eager to sign it, the biggest rewrite of the bankruptcy code in a quarter-century. It marks the second major change in law to benefit business since Republicans increased their House and Senate majorities in last fall's elections.

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18 killed, 36 wounded in Iraq suicide car bombings

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, April 15,2005 12:18 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two car bombs exploded near the interior minister's offices Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding three dozen. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the blasts, which caused the biggest death toll from an explosion in more than a month.

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Military officials charged with smuggling Ecstasy

By Alyson Brodsy and Larry Neumeister · Friday, April 15,2005 12:17 a.m.

NEW YORK -- A U.S. military pilot and a sergeant were being held on federal narcotics charges after admitting they flew an Air Force jet from New York to Germany and returned with 290,000 pills of Ecstasy worth millions of dollars, authorities said Wednesday. Capt. Franklin Rodriguez, 35, and Master Sgt. John Fong, 36, were arrested Tuesday when their cargo plane returned to Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, about 40 miles north of New York City.

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U.S. Marshals capture 10,000 fugitives

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Sherman · Friday, April 15,2005 12:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- More than 10,000 fugitives wanted for murder, rape, child abuse and other crimes have been arrested in the largest coordinated crackdown by federal, state and local law enforcement officials in history. The number of arrests during the weeklong effort was 10 times the average for such a period, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, which led the nationwide dragnet timed to coincide with National Victims' Rights Week.

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Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to bombings

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:07 a.m.

ATLANTA -- A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks, saying he picked the Summer Games to embarrass the U.S. government in front of the world "for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."

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Video tape shows Northern Indiana man as Iraqi hostage

By Alyson Brodsy and Traci Carl · Thursday, April 14,2005 12:06 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Indiana man, scared and clutching his passport to his chest, was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, two days after he was kidnapped from a water treatment plant near Baghdad. The station said he pleaded for his life and urged U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq.

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German SWAT team rescues hostages

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Moore · Wednesday, April 13,2005 1:08 a.m.

ENNEPETAL, Germany -- German police commandos slipped into a house where a knife-wielding man was holding four schoolgirls hostage Tuesday, surprising the suspect and taking him into custody while rescuing his captives after a five-hour standoff. The man inflicted a superficial knife wound on the stomach of a 16-year-old hostage, whom he held with three 11-year-olds, before he was captured by a police SWAT team that entered the red brick house at the end of a cul-de-sac shortly after 6 p.m., lead investigator Ulrich Kuhne said.

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Suspects indicted in U.S. terrorism plot

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Sherman · Wednesday, April 13,2005 12:33 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Three men have been indicted on charges they plotted to attack financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. A four-count indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses Dhiran Barot, Nadeem Tarmohammed and Qaisar Shaffi of scouting the New York Stock Exchange and Citicorp Building in New York; the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J.; and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia.

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Rumsfeld visits Kurdish region of Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert Burns · Wednesday, April 13,2005 12:32 a.m.

SALAHUDDIN, Iraq -- On a whirlwind tour of Iraq that included his first visit to the Kurdish region, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged the emerging national government Tuesday to avoid politicizing the Iraqi military. At a news conference in a shaded courtyard surrounded by young pear trees, Rumsfeld was asked whether Iraqi officials he met earlier in Baghdad had given him assurances about continuity in the senior leadership of the Iraqi security forces.

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Particles

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 12,2005 12:49 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 12 states and several cities asked a federal appeals court Friday to make the Environmental Protection Agency reconsider its decision not to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases as air pollutants.

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