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Ron Barber, an aide to ex-Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who stood down after being shot in the head, is elected to the US Congress.

Officials in Bastrop, Texas, vote to give a homeless man the $77,000 he found on the banks of a river earlier this year.

If you are reluctant to challenge your physician on a certain procedure or medicine, you are hardly alone. Focus groups show that many patients feel intimidated by their doctors. They're reluctant to take an active role in discussing their care because they're afraid that the doctor will see them as "difficult."

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. Marshal waiting inside....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. marshal waiting inside.

Hours after his surrender, Desmonte Leonard was being held ...

The full text of F Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby is to be performed in London, in an eight-hour show at the Noel Coward Theatre.

Infowars.com | Defrocked priests, child pornographers, and convicted rapists are allowed to molest children and women at America's airports.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial are likely to hear more graphic testimony Wednesday, following two days of accounts of alleged sex assaults involving the former Penn State assistant football coach and boys he met through his charity....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece must form a government after this weekend's vote, Conservative leader Antonis Samaras said Wednesday, insisting that his country should stay in the eurozone and try to amend its international bailout deal to stimulate its moribund economy....

Driving in a high crime area, eye contact with officer, and furtive movement like toward a gun was reasonable suspicion. State v. Norfolk, 2012 Mo. LEXIS 107 (June 12, 2012).*

The district court’s verdict in a bench trial, inter alia, that subpoenaing records of cell phone calls was reasonable was affirmed on credibility of witnesses. Cunningham v. Terrebonne Parish Consol. Gov't, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11902 (5th Cir. June 12, 2012).*

“While the fact that Whisnant did not understand he could refuse consent to search is a factor to consider in determining whether consent was voluntary, police do not have to inform an individual of his right to refuse to consent to a search. ... Likewise, when requesting an individual's consent to search a vehicle, police are not required to inform the individual that others could object to the search. Nor are police required to obtain the consent of all the occupants of a vehicle in order to search it. ... In this case, the alleged consenter himself testified repeatedly that he consented to the search and never testified that he felt coerced into doing so by the factors cited by Collins or by any other factors. Accordingly, the district court did not clearly err in finding that Whisnant's consent was valid.” United States v. Collins, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11828, 2012 FED App. 0173P (6th Cir. June 12, 2012).*

LONDON (AP) -- Prime Ministers come and go, but News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch stays and stays and stays....

U.S. drone strikes targeted al Qaeda hideouts in southern Yemen on Wednesday, killing at least nine suspected militants, three senior security officials said.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the U.S. troops pullout on Dec. 18, 2011:...

The funeral of a baby boy whose body was found in a stream in Lancashire last year will take place later.

Aimee Copeland on Tuesday reached another milestone by being upgraded from critical to serious condition at the Georgia hospital where she has valiantly fought a condition caused by flesh-eating bacteria.

London 2012 will be the first Summer Olympics with no sports exclusively for men now that women's boxing is an official part of the games.

Fans of the Stone Roses are left confused after the band fail to play an encore at a gig in Amsterdam, with reports drummer Reni had left the venue.

David Millar moves closer to competing at the Olympics as he is named in the provisional list for the Team GB road cycling squad.

Prime Minister David Cameron has attempted to shrug off the Lib Dems' decision to abstain in a vote over the future of Tory Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Merely alleging there was a basis for a suppression motion that was not filed does not allege IAC under Strickland. United States v. Action, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81137 (S.D. Tex. June 12, 2012):

[B]y arguing that "there was a sufficient basis to file a motion to suppress," and that the defense "had nothing to lose and everything to gain" by filing the motion, Defendant does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel. Defendant must do more than allege there were grounds for filing the motion; he must prove that the motion would have been granted. He must move beyond asserting that there was no downside to filing the motion; he must establish a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's failure to file the motion, the result of his proceeding would have been different.

Defendant’s repeated refusal to remove his hands from his pockets during a traffic stop became reasonable suspicion. United States v. Fletcher, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 79795 (M.D. Tenn. June 8, 2012).*

When defendant’s DL was called in, there was a note to call his federal PO, which happened. That did not unreasonably extend the length of the stop. United States v. Campbell, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81083 (E.D. Tenn. May 22, 2012).*