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New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida.

AP - A former professor once accused of being a terrorist leader has declined to enter a plea on charges that he refused to testify before a federal grand jury.

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov has today signed a document on his country’s joining…

AP - A Texas man who shot and killed two men he suspected of burglarizing his neighbor’s home cleared in the shootings Monday by a grand jury.

Jeffery Sikes, of Ceres, New York, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for his convictions of possession and attempted possession of child pornography. Sikes has prior state convictions for attempted sexual abuse in the first degree and possession of a sexual performance by a child.

Four Iraqi men are suing U.S. military contractors who they say tortured them while they were detained in Abu Ghraib prison, according to lawsuits filed Monday at U.S. federal courts.

John and Linda Van Winkle, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, were each sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring with others, including the former bank president Richard Thomas, to defraud the First National Bank of Northern Kentucky of more than $2.5 million.

Ruben Ultreras-Estrada, of Naco, Sonora, Mexico, extradited to the U.S. in May 2006 to face trial for cocaine charges related to the Naco, Arizona drug tunnel, was sentenced in Tucson, Arizona to 25 years in prison.

The Army’s criminal investigations unit is joining the effort to catch the killer of a Fort Bragg soldier who was found dead in the bathtub of motel room, authorities said Monday.

AP - “Executive Privilege” (HarperCollins Publishing. 368 pages. $25.95), by Phillip Margolin: It’s a common plot ploy: A detective takes what looks like an easy job and winds up running for her life.