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Police respond to shooting at Miami mall; 2 hurt - Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted - Feds arrest mayor of Birmingham, Ala. on bribery charges.



Police respond to shooting at Miami mall; 2 hurt

Authorities responding to a shooting at suburban Miami mall say one person has been shot and taken to a hospital.

Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted

The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.

Feds arrest mayor of Birmingham, Ala. on bribery charges

The mayor of Alabama's largest city, Larry Langford, was arrested Monday on federal bribery and fraud charges connected to a multibillion-dollar sewer bond deal that has driven the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy.

ND farmer defies government by draining wetlands

Armed with a tractor or a backhoe, Alvin Peterson moves dirt to drain prairie potholes on his land, saying he's putting the land back to the way God intended.

Obama says he's willing to hear a variety of ideas

President-elect Barack Obama says that in choosing independent-minded people like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert Gates for his administration, he wanted people who have strong opinions and are not shy about expressing them.

Customers stew as kosher meat gets scarce

 Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.

Juror didn't feel defendant expected teen's death

The jury forewoman in the internet suicide trial said she didn't feel the defendant expected the teenage victim would harm herself after being subjected to an Internet hoax.

Study shows families' financial strain from autism

More than half a million U.S. children have autism with costly health care needs that often put an unprecedented financial strain on their families, national data show.

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