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Is terrorist now a changed man?

WASHINGTON -- Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi.

El Sayyid A. ...

Gambling addiction expected to increase in Ohio

AKRON, Ohio -- The young man said he had never gambled in his life. Then he decided to check out the new Hollywood Casino Columbus.

Two weeks later, he had lost everything, including the trust of his mom when he stole from her after his cash ran ...

A posthumous fall from grace

LOS ANGELES -- By the time the letter arrived, the grass on Benjamin Hawkes' grave had grown thick. Historians had chronicled how he transformed the Los Angeles archdiocese into a billion-dollar institution. His portrait had been etched into a ...

Rookie cops walking South Side streets

CHICAGO -- Flashlights in hand, the five rookie Chicago cops were walking along a darkened stretch of the gang-infested South Side neighborhood on a recent night when their radios crackled with a call of a battery in progress.

One behind the ...

US decries Russia weapons sale to Syria

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced anti-ship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in ...