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Fla. murder trial nears for disgraced ex-FBI agent who protected notorious Boston mobsters John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport.

Despite fanfare, FBI initiative brings no prosecutions in unsolved civil rights era killings Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.

High-resolution Earth imaging satellite launched from California air base A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.

Ex-NJ lawmaker headed to trial on charges of padding his pension with no-work government jobs A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension benefits _ from $28,000 a year to $81,000.

As Hurricane Ike churns west, fear of tragedy builds in Fla., Caribbean For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.

Wet, windy Tropical Storm Hanna moves up Eastern seaboard; ugly Hurricane Ike looms at sea Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.

As another Sept. 11 anniversary dawns, wrestling with the idea of moving on It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.

House explosion in Chicago-area city kills elderly couple, damages at least 8 homes Authorities in northern Illinois say an explosion has destroyed a house and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home have been found in the wreckage.

Last Dance: Days may be numbered for NYC strip club that survived mafia, FBI and Giuliani The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut.

40 years after capture by North Korea, USS Pueblo crew reuniting, awaiting Navy recognition Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.