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  1. Latest Hoffa hunt resumes today
    A second day of digging in a Detroit field yielded no sign of the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Undeterred, authorities will resume their hunt Wednesday morning.
  2. Police: Day-care operator drugged pancakes to get kids to sleep
    Getting children to take a nap can be hard. Getting them to eat pancakes is not nearly as difficult.
  3. Man hunted by FBI for alleged sex trafficking arrested in Mexico
    Police in Mexico arrested Walter Lee Williams, a man on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals, late Tuesday, Mexican state news agency Notimex reported.
  4. Documentary aims to 'break silence' on crash of TWA Flight 800
    Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.
  5. Court document reveals details of Ohio captivity case
    It's a horrifying case that officials described as heinous and troubling.
  6. Former mobster: In 'Whitey' Bulger's gang, death was way of life
    With words as ammunition, a defense lawyer fired a machine-gun burst of questions at the government's star witness Tuesday in the federal murder trial of reputed Boston mob boss James "Whitely" Bulger.
  7. Official: Police dog in Georgia found dead of heat stroke in patrol car
    A police dog died of heat stroke after being left in a patrol car in Woodstock, Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.
  8. 'Night Stalker' Ramirez died of cancer
    Ramirez had been sentenced to death for 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries in 1985. He died this month.
  9. Italian court on reason for Knox retrial: Evidence neglected
    Italy's supreme court on Tuesday explained its earlier ruling that American Amanda Knox be retried in the 2007 death of her roommate, saying the jury that acquitted her didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony need to be answered.
  10. Medical examiner in North Carolina hotel death cases resigns
    The death of an 11-year-old boy at a Boone, North Carolina, hotel could have been prevented had police been told that the carbon monoxide that killed him was also to blame for two earlier deaths in the same room, the city's police chief said.
  11. Chad Johnson's butt-slap apology
    Former NFL player Chad Johnson apologizes for slapping his lawyer's behind to the judge who sentenced him to jail.
  12. Suspect could question victims
    If Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan follows through on representing himself at trial, he'll get the rare opportunity to cross-examine victims on the stand.
  13. Judge nixes Taliban defense
    A military judge on Friday struck down Army Maj. Nidal Hasan's planned defense that he was acting to protect the Taliban in Afghanistan when he killed 13 people in November 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas.
  14. Terrorists target the military
    At a hearing on Tuesday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, for the first time publicly explained that he was motivated by a desire to protect the leadership of the Taliban -- in particular, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the overall leader of the movement.
  15. Survivors are 'friends for life'
    Erika Brannock, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, anxiously purses her lips.

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