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Obama’s 3 Steps on Gasoline, Oil Drilling

President Barack Obama on Saturday outlined three “good sense” steps he says his administration and Congress should take to deal with a spike in gasoline prices, oil drilling, and tax breaks for oil companies. Obama framed the steps outlined on Saturday as ways of dealing with insufficient job growth and rising gasoline prices.
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Detroit-based medical clinic owners convicted of Medicare fraud

Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
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How Freedom Riders made it 50 years ago?

Remembering the freedom struggle of the African Americans, the Freedom Riders celebrate their 50th anniversary, Oprah Winfrey’s show invited 178 of the original Freedom Riders to appear as special guests on May 4.

Osama killing a 'perversion' of justice

US special operations forces killed Osama Bin Laden this past Thursday but the slaying is raising major concerns that the United States has gone too far in judge, juror and executioner of the world's most wanted man. Further more, the killing could work against the US to stir up more anti-American sentiment among radical militants.
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Tech firm founder pleads guilty in $9 mln naval kickback scheme

The founder and president of a technology services company located in Rhode Island and Georgia has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to bribing a public official in a kickback scheme netting more than $9 million of naval funds, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced.
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Louisiana man pleads guilty to federal civil rights violations

The Justice Department has announced that Johnny Mathis, 47, of Lecompte, La., pleaded guilty to two federal crimes for shooting at the home of three Hispanic men living across the street from him because of the victims' race and national origin.
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Former U.S. probation officer pleads guilty in sex predator case

A former U.S. probation officer, Mark John Walker, 52, of Eugene, Ore., has pleaded guilty to charges related to his engaging in sexual contact or aggravated sexual abuse with female offenders who were under his direct supervision as a federal probation officer from 2006 to 2009. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2011 before Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, who is a visiting judge from Alaska.
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Three sentenced in cross burning case

U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter have sentenced Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and Joshua James Moro, 23 pursuant to their January 2011 guilty pleas to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an interracial couple by burning a cross near their home in Athens, La., in October 2008.

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