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Amanda Knox headed for an extradition fight?

Roman Polanski. Edward Snowden. Manuel Noriega. Over the years, the famous and the infamous have been caught up in the legal process called extradition, which governs whether one country will turn over fugitives from justice to another country.

Works by Monet, Renoir part of estate headed for auction

Important paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are among 400 items that will be sold this spring. The sale of Huguette Clark’s collection also has a local connection — her father was a senator who founded Las Vegas.

 
FBI: Powder near Super Bowl appears harmless

A suspicious powder mailed to several locations in New York and New Jersey, including at least five hotels near the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl, appears not to be dangerous, the FBI said Friday.

Body parts found in bags dumped along Michigan roads

Body parts found in garbage bags along a southeastern Michigan road are believed to be the remains of one person and investigators are seeking a woman seen dumping things from a vehicle in the area, a sheriff said.

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Woman wakes up to find puma destroying her kitchen

A Chile woman was surprised to find a puma wreaking havoc in her kitchen recently as she started to make breakfast.

Declared dead once, man faces death penalty in killing of Las Vegas girl

A federal judge in Louisiana has scheduled a hearing Feb. 19 on motions to dismiss the indictment against a man who was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994, but surfaced in 2010 as a suspect in the deaths of his Las Vegas girlfriend and her daughter.

 
Amanda Knox ‘frightened’ after murder conviction upheld

An appeals court in Florence on Thursday upheld the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over her extradition.

 
Police: McDonald’s employee sold heroin in Happy Meals

An employee of a McDonald’s restaurant in Pittsburgh was charged Wednesday with selling heroin in Happy Meals to customers using the coded request “I’d like to order a toy.”

Northern-style storm catches South off its guard

While 2.5 inches of snow may not mean much to the Northeast or Midwest, it can wreak havoc on areas that don’t plan for snow days. That’s what happened in Atlanta and much of the South this week. Here are a few stories from the southern snow storm.

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