Gov. Chris Christie Bans ‘Weight Reduction Therapy’
TRENTON, NJ (CAP) - New Jersey became the first state to ban so-called weight reduction therapy yesterday when Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill to prohibit the controversial...
Bradley Manning’s 35-year sentence is a halfway house
It will be little consolation to the slight, young soldier whose face didn't flicker as sentence was passed, but the judge went for a halfway house - 35 years in...
Porn industry shuts down with immediate effect after ‘female performer’ tests positive for HIV
The adult film industry in San Fernando Valley in California, announced a moratorium on the making of porn films Wednesday after an actor tested positive for HIV. The performer was...
Nurse gets 12 years in patient hit man plot
CLEVELAND (AP) — A former Cleveland Clinic nurse was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday for trying to hire an emergency room patient as a hit man. Andrew...
Former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton dies
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — NASA says former space shuttle astronaut and test pilot C. Gordon Fullerton has died at age 76. A NASA statement says Fullerton died Wednesday after...
NSA collected thousands of e-mails by Americans
WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence official on Wednesday declassified three secret U.S. court opinions and other classified documents that reveal how the National Security Agency intercepted thousands of e-mails...
Businesswoman says San Diego mayor groped her
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego businesswoman is the latest woman to publicly accuse Mayor Bob Filner of making unwanted sexual advances. Dianne York said in a news...
Arias lawyers want Twitter accounts of new jurors
PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias' attorneys want a judge to allow them to monitor the Twitter accounts of the jury seated in her murder trial to be certain jurors aren't...
Dramatic 911 call in Ga. school shooting incident released
DECATUR, Ga. — The man accused of opening fire in an Atlanta-area elementary school had 500 rounds of ammunition when he was arrested after a shootout with police, authorities said...
Police: Letter attacking autistic boy not a hate crime
Canadian prosecutors say a scathing letter calling on a family to "move or euthanize" their autistic teenage son does not constitute a hate crime, but Ontario police are considering other...