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U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe instructed jurors late Monday on the eight fraud counts, saying they must determine whether or not Bruno schemed to defraud New Yorkers and misrepresented or concealed his sideline business dealings.

At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.

A Wisconsin man transformed his apartment into a pornographic shrine to young girls, arranging mannequins in a sex act, plastering the walls with photos and setting up a bed covered with stuffed animals, investigators said Monday.

A woman convicted of suffocating a baby in her home day care 11 years ago has been sentenced to 22 years in prison, and prosecutors are trying to decide if they will try her in two other infant deaths.

A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina woman to death.

A Queens man has been charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and teenage son, who were found in a closet wrapped in plastic with their throats slashed.

Hundreds of knife-carrying yobs are to be shown graphic images of stab wounds in an effort to discourage them from reoffending.

A Sheboygan teen has been charged with breaking into a neighbor's house to look for snack food.

A lawyer for Michael Jackson's former personal physician says the doctor is returning to work at his Houston clinic.

Police say a bank robbery suspect may have eaten evidence of the crime when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.

Worried about your bag being stolen in baggage claim? You've got plenty of company, especially since the news broke about police arresting a suburban Phoenix couple on suspicion of stealing nearly 1,000 bags from carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

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New York - Associated Press Published on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 11:21PM EST A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

Officials in Humboldt said Friday the police chief has been suspended pending an investigation into alleged misuse of driver's license and criminal history information.

But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.

Tennessee's new law allowing people with handgun permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled on Friday.

Head of Chicago Police Sergeant's Association is arrested for stealing and using the money for gambling trips to Las Vegas, stays at Chicago hotels and work on his home.

An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews posted US$100,000 bond on Friday - a much larger amount than previously imposed.

A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days.

A high-profile South Florida attorney under federal investigation for allegedly running a huge fraud scheme has been sued for $100 million by a group of investors.