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Sentencing is set for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.
Jessica Vega isn't likely to do prison time, but court officials say she'll have to repay $13,368 to her victims. She's b...

Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some of the town's hardest-hit neighborhoods.
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A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.
In 2009, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible d...

Peru's Sea Institute said in its final report Tuesday on the mass die-off earlier this year of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises that the cause remains unknown.
It cast doubt on oil-exploration undersea seismic testing as the reason. The report also ruled out viral and b...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reappeared on television Tuesday a week and a half after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba.
Chavez led a televised Cabinet meeting, seated at a table with aides. He spoke for more than two hours and expressed optimism about his re-e...

Oklahoma City police made an arrest Tuesday in the late-night fight that escalated into gunfire and left eight people injured shortly after the Thunder-Lakers NBA playoff game ended a few blocks away.
Police Capt. Dexter Nelson said 19-year-old Rodney Hill was arrested o...

A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan -- a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.
The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Re...

A woman sued a Connecticut hospital Tuesday, saying she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery.
Attorneys for 81-year-old Florence Fiedler of New Canaan filed the lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven Superior Court. The ho...

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An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in a medical fraud case in which prosecutors say a Mississippi cancer clinic gave patients diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old syringes on multiple people.
Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks were indicted la...