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Simpson files appeal notice to Nevada Supreme Court

O.J. Simpson’s lawyers said Tuesday they will take his case back to the Nevada Supreme Court, hoping justices will overturn a lower court judge’s decision last week denying the former football star a new trial in his armed robbery case.

 
Union official: Train engineer nodded off at controls

The engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, nodded at the controls before the wreck, and by the time he caught himself it was too late, a union official said Tuesday.

 
Judge: Detroit can use bankruptcy to relieve debt

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Detroit can use bankruptcy to cut employee pensions and relieve itself of other crushing debts, handing a defeat to the city’s unions and retirees and shifting the case into a delicate new phase.

 
Obama on healthcare reform, website

The White House has signaled that it plans to outline more aggressively the benefits of the healthcare reforms. Obama kicked off the campaign on Tuesday in a speech at 2:30 p.m (EST).

 
Detained U.S. veteran oversaw guerrilla group during Korean War

Six decades before he went to North Korea as a curious tourist, Merrill Newman supervised a group of South Korean guerrillas during the Korean War who were perhaps the most hated and feared fighters in the North, former members of the group say.

Boy who died of cancer honored with police funeral

A 10-year-old boy who had been named the town’s honorary police chief was given a funeral with full police honors Tuesday, his flag-draped coffin arriving at church to the sound of bagpipes and leaving with a motorcycle escort.

Delta bumps ticketed passengers to get basketball team to game

On one of the busiest flying days of the year, Delta Air Lines canceled an Atlanta-bound commercial flight from Gainesville Regional Airport to accommodate the University of Florida men’s basketball team.

Mice parachute into Guam to kill invasive snakes

Biologists dropped mildly toxic dead mice into Guam to help eradicate an invasive species of snake that has caused millions of dollars in damages.

Newtown football team won’t have to play Dec. 14

The high school football team in Newtown, Conn., went 12-0 as it dedicated its season to the 26 victims killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school there last year, but faced the possibility of playing for the state championship on the anniversary of the massacre.