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Reuters - Malawi’s High Court delayed on
Thursday its ruling on whether U.S. pop diva Madonna may adopt
a two-year-old Malawian boy, to allow it to review a new human
rights report which says the move would be illegal.

AP - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

AFP - A court in Malawi will not deliver its ruling on whether Madonna can permanently adopt a three-year-old boy from one of Africa’s poorest countries until next week, the star’s lawyer said Thursday.

AFP - Chuck Jackson has lived his entire life the same way four generations of his family have before him: with a death sentence from Alzheimer’s disease hanging over his head.

Taylor Buckley, the San Carlos teen accused of fatally punching 18-year-old Anthony Giraudo outside a San Francisco Giants game Friday, was released on $200,000 bail Wednesday.

A 47-year-old bookkeeper pleaded no contest to 24 felony charges related to an embezzlement scheme in which she used forged checks to cover her rent and make purchases, officials said Wednesday.

This McDonald’s in San Jose was reportedly a well-known hot spot for customers wanting something other than Big Macs or Quarter Pounders.

AP - A woman accused of booking clients for a high-priced call girl ring pleaded guilty Wednesday to money laundering and promoting prostitution in the federal probe that brought down former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

St. Mary’s County law enforcement officials arrested 39 people last weekend in a swift, dramatic conclusion to a five-month drug investigation.

Montgomery County police said yesterday that they expect to make more arrests in a marijuana investigation involving students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Winston Churchill High School in Potomac and Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington.