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Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing

A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain Wednesday with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses. The Crown Prosecution Service said John Downey was arrested Sunday at ...

This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television) EGYPT OUT

7 Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed

Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said. The release, which followed a security buildup and a massive show of force by the military in northern ...

FBI agent fatally shoots man in Orlando

A man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed an apartment complex near Universal Studios in Orlando. The shooting happened early Wednesday. The FBI did not immediately return a phone call early Wednesday from The Associated Press seeking details. An FBI spokesman told Orlando television stations that ...

SD teenager expelled after shooting incident

A South Dakota high school student accused in an apparently accidental shooting that injured a classmate has been expelled from classes. Britton-Hecla Superintendent Kevin Coles tells the American News (http://bit.ly/13H6jHs ) that the school board voted to expel 18-year-old Dusty Groom. A telephone listing for him could not immediately be ...

Country's most wanted deadbeat parent sentenced

A Long Island man once dubbed by prosecutors as the country's most wanted deadbeat parent for owing more than $1.2 million in child support has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Robert Sand had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to pay child support. ...

Austin woman gets 50 years for attack on ex-spouse

A Central Texas woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for beating and shooting her ex-husband amid a child custody dispute. Jurors in Austin on Tuesday sentenced Andria Stanley over the February 2012 early-morning attack. She was convicted of aggravated kidnapping, burglary of habitation and two counts of ...

Jodi Arias: Death Penalty Would Cause More Pain

Jodi Arias: Death Penalty Would Cause More Pain

Jodi Arias tells The Associated Press that it would cause more pain for her family, if she is sentenced to death. Arias has been convicted of killing her former boyfriend in 2008. A jury is deciding if she will be sentenced to death. (May 2...

Jodi Arias: Death Penalty 'would Cause More Pain

Jodi Arias: Death Penalty 'would Cause More Pain

Jodi Arias tells The Associated Press that it would cause more pain for her family, if she is sentenced to death. Arias has been convicted of killing her former boyfriend in 2008. A jury is deciding if she will be sentenced to death. (May 2...

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy smiles as he faces the cameras upon arrival at an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  Leaders from the 27 European Union countries gather in Brussels for one of their regular European Council sessions. On the agenda is the increasingly controversial subject of large corporations’ creative tax avoidance schemes. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Scagnetti)

EU leaders discuss fight against tax evasion

The European Union's leaders are seeking to advance their fight against tax evasion and close loopholes for large corporations' creative tax avoidance schemes. European officials say tax evasion costs the 27-nation bloc an estimated 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) per year. The bloc's 27 heads of state and government will ...

CORRECTS THAT LASHLEY IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A HOUSEBOAT, NOT ARSON - This image provided by the Park County Sheriff's Office shows David Leon Lashley, who was arrested May 20, 2013, in Wyoming near the Montana border by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Coast Guard investigators. Lashley is suspected of faking his own death and wanted in connection with the disappearance of a houseboat in which he allegedly attempted to fake his death. He is also wanted for failing to appear in court in March. (AP Photo/Park County Sheriff's Office)

Fla. man suspected of faking death found in Wyo.

A Florida man suspected of faking his own death has been arrested in Wyoming. Fifty-year-old David Leon Lashley was arrested Monday in the Clark area near the Montana border by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Coast Guard investigators. Park County Sheriff Scott A. Steward said Tuesday that Lashley fled Florida in ...

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