3 Ky. lawyers face trial, accused of defrauding clients
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Two part owners of last year's Preakness winner went on trial Tuesday on charges they defrauded clients out of millions in a case being watched closely by the thoroughbred industry because the men could lose their share of the horse....
Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide
ELKTON, Md. (AP) -- Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will be kept on file in a sealed envelope in case they decide to press charges....
Immigration raid in Iowa largest ever in US
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A federal immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa was the largest such operation in U.S. history, with nearly 400 people arrested, federal officials said Tuesday....
Detroit City Council moves toward ousting mayor
DETROIT (AP) -- The City Council narrowly approved taking the first step Tuesday toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is charged with perjury over explicit text messages sent to a former aide....
Military cracks down on scrap-metal scavengers
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape....
Fla. wildfires hit 160 homes; arsonists sought
PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) -- Investigators searched Tuesday for one or more arsonists behind a string of stubborn wildfires that have destroyed or damaged more than 160 homes on Florida's Atlantic coast....
Calif installs 1st black female legislative leader
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California on Tuesday installed the nation's first black female legislative leader, swearing in Los Angeles Democrat Karen Bass as speaker of the state Assembly....
Lesbian chased out of NYC bathroom settles suit
NEW YORK (AP) -- A popular restaurant has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit with a lesbian who said a bouncer chased her out of the women's bathroom and forced her to leave because she looked masculine....
Sect mother of newborn not a minor, Texas concedes
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being removed from a polygamous sect's ranch, is an adult....
Deputies kill 2 in gun battle on Calif. reservation
SAN JACINTO, Calif. (AP) -- A man and woman opened fire on guards at an entrance to an American Indian reservation and fled into its hilly interior, where they were killed in a gun battle with sheriff's deputies and a SWAT team, authorities said Tuesday. It was the second deadly gunfight involving deputies on the reservation in five days....
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