AP – A former teacher whose arrest sparked a scandal at an elementary school that led to the replacement of all of its teachers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to committing lewd acts with 23 children in his classroom.
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Ex-LA teacher pleads not guilty to lewd acts
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AP – Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.
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Reuters – With the tax man breathing down his neck, Ohio farmer Tony Rohrs is scrambling to figure out how much money he made last year in an account at MF Global.
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MF Global failure creates tax crunch for farmers
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AP – Ana Jimenez and her husband were so terrified of being sent back to their native Mexico when Alabama’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants took effect that they fled more than 2,000 miles to Los Angeles, cramming into a two-bedroom apartment with more than 20 other relatives.
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Immigrants trickling back to Ala despite crackdown
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Reuters – A local sheriff resigned as a co-chair of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign in Arizona on Saturday after he was accused of threatening a former male lover with deportation to Mexico if he talked about their relationship.
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Arizona sheriff quits Romney campaign amid accusations
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The Christian Science Monitor – Long a mainstay of the drug war, undercover agents have found a new calling in netting so-called âlone wolfâ terrorists, including playing a major role in the case of Amine Al Khalifi, the Moroccan man arrested on Friday after he allegedly set into motion a plot to blow himself up inside the US Capitol in hopes of killing at least 30 people.
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US Capitol suicide bomb plot foiled: How to catch a ‘lone wolf’
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AP – A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by FBI undercover operatives, said police and government officials.
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Terror suspect arrested near Capitol in FBI sting
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Reuters – Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in Switzerland, and arrested eight Italians accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
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Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds
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AP – New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under “shock and awe” bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, has died of an apparent asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its president.
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New York Times correspondent Shadid dies in Syria
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