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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A northeastern Pennsylvania judge has appealed his conviction in the juvenile justice scandal known as "kids for cash."

In this film image released by Paramount Pictures, Channing Tatum, left, and Dwayne Johnson are shown in a scene from "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Jaimie Trueblood)

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say a former New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles player has admitted he intentionally failed to file federal income tax returns for several years.

CLEVELAND (AP) - A suspect in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in eastern Ohio has lost an appeal for pretrial release from jail.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma judge has ordered the release of a 19-year-old man arrested in connection with a shooting that left at least eight people wounded following an NBA playoff game.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and their father's in ...

LORETTO, Pa. (AP) - An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.

Law enforcement officials stand on a jet bridge and a passenger jet on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport, in Bangor, Me., Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The plane was diverted to Maine during its flight from France to Charlotte. Officials ...

Pre-market prices for Nasdaq stock, left, and Facebook stock are shown, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Facebook stock rose in early trading Wednesday, although still far below the $38 it was priced at before ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The New Hampshire Senate has grudgingly agreed to negotiate with the House on a bill that would allow some employers to exclude contraceptive coverage from health plans if they have religious objections.

FILE - This undated picture made available by Conway, N.H. The New Hampshire attorney general says one of three defendants in the disappearance and death of the Maine mother whose body was found in a ski area pond last year ...

MIAMI (AP) - A 20-year-old college student who told investigators he was merely trying to get a reaction from President Barack Obama's supporters pleaded guilty Wednesday to posting threatening messages against the president on Facebook.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - George Zimmerman called the Sanford police department lazy more than a year before he shot Trayvon Martin to death.

In this May 16, 2012 photo, auctioneer Ron Wright, left, auctions farm equipment at the MacLaren farm in Plainfield, Vt. The MacLarens have faced hardships in the family's 70-plus years farming the same land in Plainfield. But another drop in ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The New Hampshire Senate has grudgingly agreed to negotiate with the House on a bill that would allow some employers to exclude contraceptive coverage from health plans if they have religious objections.