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Former Hill aide pleads guilty to hiding gifts

Trevor L. Blackann pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to lying on his 2003 tax returns.

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Newport News assistant police chief demoted over DUI

Dawn Barber is no longer an assistant police chief in Newport News.

The judge fined Barber $500, sentenced her to 30 days behind bars, suspended her license for a year and ordered her to take an ASAP class.

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Judge Pleads Guilty In DUI Case

Sean O'Brien received a 60-day jail sentence that was suspended if he pays fines and court costs, obeys all laws and participates in the 24/7 alcohol monitoring program.

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Ex-San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew pleads guilty to perjury

Former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew pleaded guilty today in San Francisco Superior Court to one count of perjury for lying about his place of residence on documents he filed while running for office in 2006.

Former San Francisco Pleads Guilty to Perjury

Ed Jew was charged with perjury, elections code violations, voter fraud and filing false documents for claiming to live in the sunset neighborhood when he ran for the District 4 seat.

In a separate federal case, Jew pleaded guilty last month to charges of extortion, mail fraud and soliciting a $40,000 bribe from the owners of several tapioca drink shops in return for help obtaining city permits.

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Truck-driving tester sentenced in West Plains fraud case

The tester employed by a now-defunct West Plains truck driving school was sentenced today in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to provide fraudulent commercial driver’s licenses to large numbers of Somali and Bosnian nationals, according to a news release from John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

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Molalla chief wants to fire officer, again

The police chief of this small farming town south of Portland says he wants to review a state decertification order for one of his officers to see if he can be fired - again.

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LAPD's fingerprint lab isn't up to the task

One of the unit's print specialists had determined that several prints lifted from a cellphone store where a burglary had occurred belonged to Maria Maldonado, a 25-year-old hospital technician. Two others in the unit had signed off on the work. The match had given authorities the evidence they needed to arrest the woman and charge her with the crime. When the case went before a judge, however, a renowned fingerprint expert testified that the police had made a mistake.

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Ex-Trooper Admits Writing Phony Tickets

The Attorney General's office says 28-year-old Mark Wilson pleaded guilty to three counts of tampering with public records and three counts of second-degree forgery. He was ordered to serve a year of probation.

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Charges added to indictment of Congressman Renzi

A racketeering charge and other counts have been added to an indictment against Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi.

Among other things, Renzi was originally charged with engineering a swap of federally owned mining land to benefit himself and a former business partner.

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Prescription drugs cited in Locklear DUI charge

Prosecutors in Santa Barbara have charged Heather Locklear with misdemeanor driving under the influence, citing prescription drugs.

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Ex-state NJ Sen. Bryant guilty on all counts

Former New Jersey state Sen. Wayne Bryant has been convicted of bribery and fraud.

The once powerful Camden County Democrat was accused of being paid for a job that required no work at a scandal-ridden state university in exchange for securing state funding for it.

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Denver Teacher Charged In Student Sex Scandal

A 27-year-old Sheridan High School teacher accused of having a sexual encounter with a male student has been formally charged and suspended from her job.

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County parks employee arrested in bribe investigation

Fresno County sheriff's detectives have arrested an employee of the county's Parks and Recreation department for taking bribes from four people on probation who were assigned to work crews at Kearney Park.

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June trial set for ex-Marmaduke superintendent

Jerry Don McIntosh was indicted in May for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. He's accused of conspiring with two bus drivers - Ray Mike Graham and James Mark Graham - to defraud the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System.

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Marine Accused In Disappearance Hoax Under Arrest

Washington state authorities say a Colorado Marine accused of faking his own disappearance to avoid returning to his unit was in a rented airplane with his father when he was arrested moments before taking off.

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Napolitano is no stranger to Washington scandals

President-elect Barack Obama's likely pick for Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, is no stranger to headline-making Washington scandals and controversies.

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Mass. Sen. Dianne Wilkerson resigns in wake of bribery charges

Massachusetts state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson resigned from office Wednesday, a day after being indicted on eight federal counts of attempted extortion for allegedly accepting $23,500 in bribes from undercover agents she thought were businessmen.

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Polk County, Fla., deputy arrested for DUI

Authorities say Anthony Eugene Lawrence, a detention lieutenant, was weaving through traffic and hitting curbs around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday morning when he was pulled over.

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WellCare can't file quarterly financial reports

WellCare Health Plans, already under investigation by far too many state and federal agencies, has reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will be unable to file past quarterly financial reports. This latest news only raises further questions about the company's future viability, which was rocked by scandal since federal agents raided its head in October 2007.

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Banned firms got new U.S. contracts in Iraq

A firm suspended from U.S. government contracts for allegedly bribing Army officers was awarded a new contract in Iraq two days after the suspension was imposed, government investigators found. The Pentagon paid the suspended company more than $1 million under the new contract.

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Wilkerson says she can't afford a lawyer

Embattled state Senator Dianne Wilkerson has asked a federal magistrate judge for a court-appointed lawyer, saying she cannot afford to pay an attorney to defend her against charges that she took $23,500 in bribes.

In a two-sentence motion filed late Friday, Wilkerson asked US Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman to appoint Max D. Stern as a taxpayer-funded lawyer.

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4-Year-Old Starved To Death; Grandmother, Aunt Charged

Sheriff Mike Lee said the child had not eaten for about two weeks. He said that investigators believe the women tortured the child by not letting him have anything to eat and his organs shut down as a result.

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NH mother hid stolen goods in toddler's pockets

A New Hampshire mother has pleaded guilty to stealing DVDs and CDs and hiding them in her 2-year-old daughter's pockets.

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Police Say Woman Broke Infant Twins' Legs

Vermont authorities arrested a 37-year-old transient woman Thursday for allegedly beating her 2-month-old pre-term twins.

Georgia Man Indicted for Allegedly Holding Wife, Kids Captive in Filthy, Roach-Infested Trailer

Authorities said the 36-year-old held his wife and four children captive in the trailer in Lavonia for three years.

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Texas mom convicted of dropping tot from balcony

A Texas mother accused of dropping her toddler twice from a balcony has been convicted of attempted capital murder.

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Man And Woman Arrested For Leaving Baby In Car

Loudoun County Sheriff's deputies were called to a parking lot in Sterling to break up an altercation between a man and a woman, and then found a baby that had been left alone inside the couple's vehicle. Sheriffs deputies determined the 7-month-old child had been left unsupervised in the car for over an hour while the couple was inside a restaurant.

Marysville man charged in fatal shooting of 6-year-old daughter

Richard Peters, 42, was charged Tuesday with first-degree manslaughter with a deadly weapon.

Peters allegedly told investigators he accidentally shot his daughter while he was cleaning his .45-caliber Colt handgun at his rural home on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. He told detectives he'd been drinking and was intoxicated.

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Man accused of killing kids fights divorce effort

Police say Mark Castillo confessed to drowning his three children -- ages 6, 4 and 2 -- in the bathtub of a downtown Baltimore hotel room in March. He is challenging the terms of a divorce agreement he signed in September, while being held at the Maryland psychiatric hospital awaiting trial on murder charges.

Monroe couple charged with attempted murder of baby

A Monroe couple are being held in jail as suspects in the attempted murder of their 10-day-old infant.

The infant had a hole punctured in his stomach, which was caused by blunt force trauma, according to the affidavit.

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California Mom Gets 15 to Life for Driving Teens to Kill 13-Year-Old Gang Rival

A mother has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for driving her son and his friends to a California skate park to kill a 13-year-old gang rival.

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