Former university president busted in connection with NJ prof's 'prostitution ring'

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  Obama: US has turned corner in Afghanistan

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  Baghdad market bomb blitz kills 21

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  Estate of Anna Nicole Smith loses at Supreme Court

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  Amtrak probing cause of 2nd disruption in 3 days

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  Accused LI pharmacy gunman has 'shown no remorse' for shootings, pleads not guilty

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• Facebook names Netflix CEO to board of directors

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  Lindsay Lohan avoids jail, found not to have violated her probation

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  Attorney for Casey Anthony's parents denies report his clients believe daughter is guilty

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• French Afghan pullout to mirror US

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  GOP senators to mull gay marriage vote

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  Wife: man charged in LI pharmacy slay was trying to get pills for her

  He did it for her. Suspected pill addict David Laffer has been charged with slaughtering four people in a Long Island pharmacy to score a bag full of painkillers for his nagging, drug-addled wife, who was his getaway driver after the Father's...   9:33 AM

• Court upholds ex-NYPD officer’s murder conviction

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  Michelle Obama travels to Cape Town for meeting with Desmond Tutu

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  Man arrested in Pentagon scare charged in DC-area shootings at military sites

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  Worker survives terrifying hit-and-run (VIDEO)

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  Tiffany replaces CFO, adds COO title

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• Second arrest made in professor's online prostitution web site

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police say a woman has been arrested in connection with an online prostitution ring that earlier led to the arrest of a...   10:57 AM