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US priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys
AP - Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf. He says he asked the Rev. Lawrence Murphy to hear his confession, and instead the priest took him into a closet under the stairs and sexually assaulted him.
Judge to rule on case involving 24 Iraqi deaths
AP - It has been more than four years since Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich led a squad of Marines in killing 24 Iraqis, some unarmed women in children. It has been more than two years since he was court-martialed.
Saying 'I do': Black marriage campaign is growing
AP - For Kenny and Lynette Seymour, last weekend's black marriage gala was about celebrating their seven-year marriage. They got to meet other black couples while spending a romantic evening together.
Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies
AP - An Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks has died.
Deaf school students say Wis. priest abused them
AP - Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev. Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St. John's School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions.
Ga. man charged with flurry of false FEMA claims
AP - A Georgia man who claims he was the victim of hurricanes in Louisiana, tornadoes in Indiana and flooding in New Hampshire has been charged with fraud.
Deputies raid 4 Ariz. McDonald's in ID theft case
AP - Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies have arrested 12 people in raids on four Phoenix-area McDonald's restaurants in a stolen identity case.
Mainer gets 10 years in fatal sex game shooting
AP - A man who introduced guns to a drug-fueled basement sex party in Maine has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the shooting death of a friend.
Ohio plane crash victim cremated by mistake
AP - A man killed in a plane crash was incorrectly cremated and the body of the pilot was buried in the first man's place, an Ohio coroner's official said Friday.
Legendary news photographer dies; shot every president from Hoover to Clinton
AP - Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day landing in 1944 and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has died. He was 92.
Maine man gets 10 years in fatal sex game shooting
AP - A 51-year-old farmer from rural Maine wept in court and expressed remorse Friday as he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting a friend in the head during a drug-fueled party in a 'sex dungeon' of a suburban home.
Marine's Iraq killings trial to go forward
AP - A military judge in California denied a motion Friday to dismiss charges against a Marine sergeant whose squad killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children after a bomb killed a Marine.
Court: Seattle police OK to Taser pregnant woman
AP - A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket.
Charges reduced in phone caper at senator's office
AP - Federal prosecutors filed reduced charges Friday against conservative activist James O'Keefe and three others who were accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office.
Calif. nixes rule mandating reflective car windows
AP - California air regulators have reversed a mandate that would have required sun-reflecting glass to be installed on all new vehicles sold in the state, giving auto manufacturers a temporary reprieve.
Mass. dad convicted in OD death of daughter, 4
AP - A man accused along with his wife of giving their 4-year-old daughter a lethal prescription drug overdose to keep her quiet was convicted of first-degree murder Friday.
Class on Pa. town's immigration fight draws fire
AP - When David Lopez came to college in the big city, the immigration tensions in his small Pennsylvania hometown seemed a world away.
Families of contractors killed in Iraq sue feds
AP - The families of three private security contractors who were kidnapped, held for ransom and beheaded in Iraq are suing U.S. State Department over their deaths.
Court: Seattle police OK to stun pregnant woman
AP - Three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a case that prompted an incredulous dissent.
More than 25 hit in rash of Utah BB gun shootings
AP - A rash of drive-by BB gun shootings in the suburbs around Salt Lake City has left police and more than two dozen victims wondering who is carrying out the apparently random attacks.
Fla. girl assaulted before found in Ga. landfill
AP - An unemployed restaurant worker was charged Friday with sexually assaulting and killing 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was discovered in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished walking home from school in north Florida.
Minn. boy who fled state to avoid chemo turns 14
AP - A Minnesota boy who once fled the state with his mother to avoid chemotherapy for cancer has reason to celebrate.
Wizards' Arenas gets 30 days in halfway house
AP - No jail. But no round-the-clock freedom, either, for Gilbert Arenas.
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