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SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Some mandatory furloughs at reduced pay for California corrections officers ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are illegal, a court ruled Thursday.

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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Russian bodybuilder, television personality and actor Vladimir Turchinsky has died of a heart attack at the age of 46, his family said Thursday.

ATLANTA, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Rich Peverley's second goal of the game, coming 1:16 into overtime Thursday, gave Atlanta a 6-5 victory over Dallas.

UNIONDALE, N.Y., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Ryan Callahan scored two power-play goals Thursday and added two assists in boosting the New York Rangers past the New York Islanders 5-2.

LONDON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Turkish emigre living in Britain has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for drugging and torturing his teen daughter before she died in an "honor killing."

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was the top-selling DVD in the United States last week, Rentrak Corp. announced Thursday.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Henry Frazier III, who took over a Prairie View A&M football program that once lost 80 straight games, was named winner of the Eddie Robinson Award Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Al Franken, one of the U.S. Senate's newest members, forced veteran Sen. Joseph Lieberman to cut short his remarks on healthcare Thursday.

MONTREAL, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Niklas Backstrom made 30 saves Thursday and won for the seventh time in eight starts while carrying Minnesota to a 3-1 victory over Montreal.

WARREN, Ohio, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Convicted ex-congressman James A. Traficant Jr. says he may run for Congress again, possibly in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said Thursday he thinks golf's premier circuit can remain healthy no matter how long Tiger Woods stays away.

DENVER, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An orphaned California sea lion missing its rear flippers is recovering at the Denver zoo after being rescued along the California coast, authorities say.

MIAMI, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The lawyer for the Florida teens accused in the alcohol-fueled fire attack on Michael Brewer says he wants to see text messages possibly sent by a witness.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Essence magazine says it will honor Queen Latifah, Zoe Saldana, Mary J. Blige and Gabourey Sidibe next year for being "phenomenal" American black women.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Changes to users' privacy settings at popular social networking site Facebook violate consumer protection laws, a complaint filed with federal regulators says.

WEST ALLIS, Wis., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- NASCAR announced Thursday its races at the Milwaukee Mile race course in West Allis, Wis., will not be run because a promoter could not be determined.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A New York crime lab was so poorly run and forensic work so shoddy it may have compromised almost 100 of the cases it handled, officials say.

RAMSEY, N.J., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Florida man was convicted Thursday of murdering his former son-in-law, who was in a child-custody dispute with the killer's daughter, authorities said.