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Thursday is the funeral for Detective James Allen. Who is he, you ask? He is the police detective shot by Esteban Carpio (search) in Providence, Rhode Island last weekend. Esteban Carpio’s bloodied face has been all over the TV networks this week, in footage of him standing in court wearing …

WARSAW, Poland – The priest in charge of caring for Polish pilgrims at the Vatican collaborated with the communist secret police in the 1980s during the reign of Polish native Pope John Paul II, an official said Wednesday. An investigation into communist-era persecution of the Roman Catholic church in Poland …

CLOVIS, N.M. – A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Friday that it would enforce a nearly 3-year-old federal law that requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a fetus that survives an abortion (search ). In making the announcement, the Department of Health and Human Services (search ) said it was an attempt …

NEW YORK – Vincent Pastore (search), the actor who played a gangster on the HBO hit series “The Sopranos,” was ordered by a judge Tuesday to stay away from the girlfriend he was accused of beating last weekend. Judge Karen Lupuloff told Pastore, 58, that he was to refrain from …

PHILADELPHIA – Federal prosecutors who spent more than a month presenting a complicated, sometimes dry corruption (search) case against Philadelphia’s former treasurer summed up their case with two words: “unrelenting greed.” The prosecutors told jurors Thursday that Corey Kemp (search) twice accepted $5,000 payments from the late Democratic fund-raiser Ronald …

WASHINGTON – U.S. mass transit systems should remain alert against possible terror attacks, the Homeland Security Department said in a new warning that highlighted suspicious activity at unnamed European subway stations last fall. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said Wednesday there is no specific or credible intelligence to indicate U.S. …

NEW YORK – “Sopranos” actor Lillo Brancato Jr., who is charged with murder in the killing of a police officer, asked a judge Thursday for a separate trial from a co-defendant who he expects to testify in his defense. Brancato’s lawyer, Mel Sachs, said co-defendant Steven Armento could testify that …

BOSTON – Some investments just dabble in stupidity, while others seem to have stupidity as a mission. The difference is that the part-timers can sometimes come off the “danger” list and get back into good graces, while the truly dreadful funds will remain that way until they are shut down. …

WASHINGTON – Six refugees from North Korea have arrived in the United States, the first accepted under the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, Sen. Sam Brownback said Saturday. The six refugees arrived at an undisclosed U.S. location Friday night from a Southeast Asian nation, which Brownback did not …