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A state Senate report released Friday said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer tracking loophole. Read More

Prosecutors say a police officer was justified in firing his gun during a standoff with a Utah man who worked as an undercover informant during an investigation into American Indian artifact looting. Read More

Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them. Read More

A Washington man accused of shooting his ex-wife to death during a counseling session at a Federal Way church has been charged with first-degree murder. Read More

California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist. Read More

Charges have been dropped or convictions vacated in 185 drug cases in one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities because information gathered in a criminal investigation of five police city officers suggests evidence could have been tainted, a prosecutor announced Friday. Read More

Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair. Read More

A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussions between the ruling military junta and the U.S. State Department. Read More

U.S. Border Patrol agents say they seized 45 bundles of marijuana found inside a tractor-trailer at the Arizona-California border. Read More

Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years. Read More

A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a 17-year-old California girl was repeatedly fined for drug and driving offenses following his 2005 release from prison _ once while driving a car similar to one later used during an attempted child kidnapping, records show. Read More

California authorities say a thief in the Hollywood Hills stole a truck with a 5-year-old boy sleeping inside but the child was found safely soon after. Read More

A prosecutor suggested Friday that a mother accused of killing her autistic 8-year-old son in an apparent murder-suicide attempt had a mental problem that spurs people to seek attention by inventing illnesses for their loved ones. Read More

It was a day like any other day _ except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten. Read More

In stories March 16 and March 17 about a jogger hit and killed during an emergency landing by a small plane on a South Carolina beach, The Associated Press erroneously identified the type of engine on the plane. Read More

A judge ruled Friday that Casey Anthony is indigent and can use public money to help pay for her defense against charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter. Read More

An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's influence on the debate and give anti-abortion Democrats the political cover they need to vote for the bill. Read More

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in a 2007 crime spree in Illinois that left a sheriff's deputy dead. Read More

A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Read More

Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair. Read More