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Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. Read More

The man convicted of killing Little Rock, Arkansas, television personality Anne Pressly has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Read More

Man convicted of killing Little Rock TV personality Anne Pressly sentenced to life in prison. Read More

A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and causing at least five deaths. Read More

Hawaii's budget woes will lead to the layoff of almost 650 state workers by the end of the year. Read More

A settlement has been reached in a long-running fraud lawsuit filed against Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the once powerful anti-tobacco litigator who is now behind bars, an attorney says. Read More

Convicted domestic terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur was prohibited from attending a University of Massachusetts forum on his 1989 sedition trial, but police officers and supporters picketed anyway to protest his ex-wife's appearance. Read More

Police fatally shot a man as he stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in her apartment hours after she filed a domestic violence report against him, authorities said Thursday. Read More

The special election last week for the 23rd Congressional District seat in New York may not be over after all. Read More

The Army psychiatrist in the Fort Hood massacre was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder Thursday as he lay in a hospital bed and President Barack Obama ordered a review to determine if the government fumbled warning signs of the shooter's contacts with a radical Islamic cleric. Read More

A census taker found hanging from a tree had named his son as his life insurance beneficiary, and investigators are looking into whether the father manipulated the death scene to make a claim possible, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press Thursday. Read More

Japanese prosecutors confirmed Friday that they have dropped the case against an American man arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife. Read More

As of Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, at least 837 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Read More

Oreo was called a miracle dog when she was thrown off the roof of a six-story Brooklyn building this summer and survived. Read More

Christopher Monfort waged a "one-man war" against law enforcement starting with the firebombing of four police vehicles and continuing even after the fatal shooting of a Seattle officer on Halloween, a prosecutor said Thursday in charging him with a crime that could bring the death penalty. Read More

Only one animal got credit for a record Thursday, the same day Norway registered the world's largest gingerbread man; the most people hugging in one minute were in the U.K.; Italy set the mark for the fastest consumption of a bowl of pasta; Finland had the most nationalities in a single sauna; and a team from Mexico assembled the world's longest paper clip chain. Read More

Nearly a day after a commercial fishing boat sank off New Jersey, the Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for the three crew members. Read More

Johnny Cash sang about having shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Bob Marley belted out that he had shot the local sheriff, but not the deputy. Read More

A former House speaker, an ex-lawmaker and eight aides Thursday became the latest _ and the first Republicans _ to be charged in a 3-year-old investigation into the diversion of public resources and employees to Pennsylvania legislative campaigns. Read More

ACORN has been cut off by banks, the government and most of its private foundation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not survive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group filed Thursday against the U.S. government. Read More