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Feds drop second trial in Rubashkin case regarding illegal hires in Iowa

Mr. Rubashkin has already been found guilty of most of the charges in the first indictment.

City trying to make sense of brutal gang rape

Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.

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Movie About 4 Couples Removes Black Couple From Promotional Material

A racially-tinged advertising decision has gone awry for the movie "Couples Retreat." Marketers of the Vince Vaughn comedy, which stars four couples in a tropical paradise, removed black actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk from the promotional poster used in the United Kingdom afte …

After decades of waiting, their trains have arrived

I applaud the growth of mass transit in this country. How I wish we had high-speed trains and dependable service.

Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

by: Dahr Jamail | Inter Press Service

7 men charged with murder in fatal Boston beating

Seven men have been indicted on second-degree murder charges in the fatal beating of a man in a fight outside a Boston nightclub in August.

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Iraq veteran is killed while installing cable TV

This young many returned from foreign battles only to be attacked here at home.

Ex-NY Post editor: Cartoon flap led to firing

A former editor for the New York Post has sued the newspaper, saying she was fired for labeling as racist a cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.

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Ft. Hood shooting suspect endured work pressure and ethnic taunts, his uncle says -- latimes.com

It appears now that there were signs of stress that family and colleagues noticed in the Fort Hood shooter. How frustrating that no effective steps were taken to remove this man from the military. He just got passed along.

AP: La. justice quits after interracial wed flap

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday.

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