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Prosecutors to use DNA against polygamist leader

Prosecutors trying polygamist leader Warren Jeffs on child sexual assault charges plan to use the DNA of a child conceived in a union with a 14-year-old girl to convict him in a Texas court.
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US Historian Stole Historical Documents Worth Millions of Dollars

The federal grand jury indicted esteemed Presidential historian, Barry Landau and his assistant, Jason Savedoff for stealing and selling historical documents which includes documents signed by Abraham Lincoln, speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt and a letter from Benjamin Franklin.
Four adult relatives of 10 year old Ame Deal, who was found suffocated in a storage bin in Arizona July 12, 2011, are shown in this combination of their police booking mugs

Girl found suffocated was locked in box as punishment

Four adult relatives of an Arizona girl found suffocated in a storage bin have been arrested after investigators determined she was locked in the container as punishment for taking a popsicle without permission.

Attorneys Resist Loughner's Forced Medication

Attorneys are again challenging a court order that came last week that would allow for the forced medication of Jared Lee Loughner as he awaits trial for a shooting rampage that left a congresswoman with brain damage, and six dead.
Nafissatou Diallo (C), the Manhattan maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, stands during a media conference at the Christian Cultural Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York

Strauss-Kahn maid makes appeal as civil suit looms

The hotel maid who accused ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her made an emotional public appeal on Thursday for people to believe her story as her lawyer threatened a civil lawsuit.
At Issue: Circumcision

San Francisco Circumcision Ban Struck from Ballot

A judge blocked a controversial ballot measure that would have banned the circumcisions of minors in San Francisco, citing religious freedom and laws regulating medical procedures in deciding it had "no legitimate purpose."
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TCW vs Jeffrey Gundlach trial begins in Los Angeles

Jeffrey Gundlach tried to steal a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars after he failed to become the head of his former employer, Trust Company of the West, an attorney for TCW said in court on Thursday.
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Trial of Egypt's Mubarak to be held in Cairo

The trial of Hosni Mubarak and others over their involvement in killing protesters will be held in Cairo next week, a senior official said on Thursday, ending talk it could be moved to a resort where the former president is hospitalised.
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Stormtrooper costume designer wins UK copyright

In what a Lucasfilm spokesman told the BBC is an "anomaly of British copyright law," prop designer Andrew Ainsworth won the rights to sell replicas of the original "Star Wars" Stormtrooper helmets, which he designed.

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