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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Amanda Knox set to return home after acquittal

PERUGIA, Italy, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. student Amanda Knox spent her first day of freedom in four years Tuesday going to Seattle from Italy, where she was cleared in the murder of her roommate. Witnesses in the Fiumicino Airport, where Knox and her family were preparing to board a flight for London... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Amanda Knox: 'We deserve freedom'

PERUGIA, Italy, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. student Amanda Knox awaited a decision Monday in the appeal of her prison sentence in the 2007 death of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox, 23, of Seattle, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in December 2009 of sexually assaulting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed

SANAA, Yemen, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S.-born Yemeni cleric and al-Qaida member wanted by the United States, was killed in an airstrike in Yemen Friday, a security official said. Tribal sources said Awlaki, a leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed with other al-Qaida... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Loughner's Detention Extended

TUCSON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A judge ordered Jared Loughner, accused of the Tucson massacre that killed six people and injured 13, to receive four more months of mental health treatment. In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns said it was possible for Loughner to achieve mental... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Opening statements heard in Jackson manslaughter trial

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The involuntary manslaughter trial of Conrad Murray, the Texas cardiologist accused of causing Michael Jackson's death, began Tuesday with opening statements. The singer died June 25, 2009, at age 50 in Los Angeles. Autopsy results showed lethal levels of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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