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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found....

DORE, N.D. (AP) -- For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted....

DORE, N.D. (AP) -- For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted....

DORE, N.D. (AP) -- For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Kate Varnum was at her Iowa home watching her newly adopted infant son when news flashed that President Barack Obama had become the first sitting president to endorse equal marriage rights for same-sex couples....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Kate Varnum was at her Iowa home watching her newly adopted infant son when news flashed that President Barack Obama had become the first sitting president to endorse equal marriage rights for same-sex couples....

Here is some of the reaction by Americans from around the country after President Barack Obama voiced his support for gay marriage....

Here is some of the reaction by Americans from around the country after President Barack Obama voiced his support for gay marriage....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Jurors will deliberate for a second day at the trial of the man accused of slaying Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight months after the military allowed gays to serve openly - and on the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage - the House Armed Services Committee backed measures limiting the rights of gays and lesbians....

Narcotics officers executing two search warrants at a motel were justified in detaining those around the scene for officer safety. “The record in this case fully supports the determination that the initial detention of Thompson was a valid investigatory stop. The officers were engaged in executing narcotics search warrants, "... the kind of transaction that may give rise to sudden violence or frantic efforts to conceal or destroy evidence." Summers, 452 U.S. at 702, 101 S.Ct. at 2594. Moreover, Agent Parker's testimony that guns are frequently used in narcotic trafficking is a factor which increases the possibility of danger to the officers.” State v. Thompson, 2012 La. LEXIS 1321 (May 8, 2012), revg 58 So.3d 994 (La. App. 2 Cir. February 23, 2011).

An officer at a sobriety checkpoint observed a vehicle abruptly pull into a parking lot of closed businesses. He went to investigate, and defendant’s vehicle pulled in, too. The police car blocked the exit. This was a stop without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, and it was not consensual. Jones v. State, 2012 Ga. LEXIS 435 (May 7, 2012).*

The search warrant for defendant’s cell phone was based on probable cause, and the nine months between transactions did not make it stale here. The good faith exception also applies. United States v. Sinclair, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63864 (N.D. Cal. May 3, 2012).*

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated by what they said are stalled efforts to free a U.S. soldier taken prisoner three years ago in Afghanistan, the man's parents have gone public with previously secret U.S. attempts to trade him for Taliban prisoners in U.S. hands....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated by what they said are stalled efforts to free a U.S. soldier taken prisoner three years ago in Afghanistan, the man's parents have gone public with previously secret U.S. attempts to trade him for Taliban prisoners in U.S. hands....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Jurors deliberated late into the night Wednesday without reaching a verdict after sitting through sometimes heated and embittered closing arguments at the Chicago trial of the man accused of slaying Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal investigators are conducting a probe into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot in which an explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight, a law enforcement official said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the facility is unnecessary and Democratic complaints that the nearly $5 billion project amounts to wasteful spending in a time of tight budgets....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos....