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Part of group that prosecutors say used computer glitch to steal millions

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh woman will spend nine years in prison for taking advantage of a computer glitch to steal $1.1 million from the city's only minority-owned bank, which regulators closed as insolvent two years ago.


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Anthony Sowell has been in custody since fal 2009, when police went to his house and began finding bodies

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A serial killer will be put to death for murdering 11 women and dumping their bodies around his property, a judge ruled Friday.


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18-year-old accused of getting drunk aboard red-eye flight from Portland to NYC

NEW YORK (AP) -- An 18-year-old was dismissed from the U.S. Ski Team's development squad after he was accused of getting drunk and then urinating on a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight.


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Influential businessman let early Black politicians use his property for campaign offices

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Carlton J. Roy Sr., a black businessman who worked against segregation alongside influential New Orleans civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Avery Alexander and Dorothy Mae Taylor, has died. He was 94.


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Hailed from all corners of nation, mostly men in their 20s and 30s

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American troops killed in the deadliest single mission of the Afghan war came from two dozen states and all corners of the nation, mostly young men in their 20s and 30s.

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Police up security after death of man scheduled to testify against alleged leader

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The day Eguel Geffrard was supposed to testify in the trial of the man accused of leading one of South Florida's most violent gangs, police found his bloodied body in a parking lot, a targeted hit authorities said was meant to be a message reinforcing Top 6's power.


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Charles L. Gittens joined agency's Charlotte, N.C., office in 1956

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charles L. Gittens, who in 1956 became the first black Secret Service agent, has died. He was 82.


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Former governor and others support 15 inmates who say they were beaten by convicted official Jon Burge

CHICAGO (AP) -- Fifteen incarcerated men who claim they were sent to prison by confessions that were beaten, burned and tortured out of them by convicted Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers are getting some high-profile help - including from a former Illinois governor.


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Pentagon has been hesitant to release names of those killed

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Troops killed in the deadliest incident of the Afghan war came home Tuesday - traveling in death much the same way they did in life - shrouded in secrecy.

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Openly gay governor resigned seven years ago amid scandal; now he's helping female inmates turn their own lives around

KEARNY, N.J. (AP) -- For anyone curious about what Jim McGreevey is up to seven years after coming out of the closet to become the first openly gay governor and resigning over an affair with a male staffer, his simple answer is this: "Having lunch at Hudson County Correctional Center."


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