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California mayor facing charges in underage strip poker scandal

A California mayor was charged Thursday with providing alcohol to young adults last summer and making a secret recording of what prosecutors said was a game of strip poker that included a 16-year-old boy at a camp for underprivileged children run by the mayor.

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New Walmart scheduling system provides more certainty for workers

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, has launched a new scheduling system in about 650 Neighborhood Market stores that gives hourly workers more certainty about their schedules.

Payment to Iran was not ransom, Obama says

President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters.

Long time service with a smile

Patricia “Patty” Misuraca has been in the service industry for 40 years. She tries to give people the kind of service she would like. The remembers the names of patrons and what they like to eat with the hope of continuing to create a family atmosphere at Lou’s Diner.

 
Suspect charged with murder in Georgia teens’ deaths

Loved ones on Thursday mourned two slain teenagers whose bodies were found behind a suburban Atlanta grocery store, as police prepared to move a 20-year-old suspect to an Atlanta jail.

Suspect in deadly Charleston church shootings assaulted in jail

The gunman accused of killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church last year was attacked in jail by another inmate early Thursday but not badly injured, a local sheriff’s spokesman said.

 
American woman only fatality in London knife attack

The suspect arrested in the slaying of an American woman in a knife rampage in a busy London tourist area is a Norwegian teenager of Somali origin, police said Thursday.