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Thursday, December 17
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."
WARREN, Ohio, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Convicted ex-congressman James A. Traficant Jr. says he may run for Congress again, possibly in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Mandatory furloughs at reduced pay for California corrections officers ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are illegal, a court ruled Thursday.
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.
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a convicted killer's motion to serve his prison sentence in Italy.
AYACUCHO, Peru, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A landslide in the Peruvian Andes has claimed at least nine lives and buried numerous homes and businesses, authorities said Thursday.
BEIJING, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- China is increasing it Internet censorship, limiting citizens' ability to start Web sites or visit hundreds of sites offering entertainment, officials say.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Two Winnipeg, Canada, teens plotting to lock students and staff in a schoolroom and throw in Molotov cocktails were given adult sentences, authorities say.
ATLANTA, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The Georgia Supreme Court stopped the execution of the so-called stocking strangler, ordering a judge to consider the convict's request for a DNA test.
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, in her first statement since being freed by Somali kidnappers who held her 15 months, gave thanks to those who helped her.
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