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White House Draws Attention to Fetus Law

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 …

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Pastore Ordered to Leave Girlfriend Alone

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 …

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Prosecutors Say Greed Caused Philly Corruption Case

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 …

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