The son of an Oscar-winning songwriter was arrested Friday on charges of choking his girlfriend, a fashion designer found dead and half-clothed in a bathtub overflowing with water in a posh hotel. (Dec. 10)
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A 12-year-old girl who had been missing for a week was found unharmed Friday after she and the man accused in her abduction were recognized in a store in San Francisco. (Dec. 10)
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Despite some late season controversy, Auburn quarterback Cam Newton is the heavy favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. The four finalists for the award met the media in New York Friday. (Dec. 10)
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Brian David Mitchell faces up to life in prison when he’s sentenced in May. A jury in Salt Lake City convicted the street preacher of abducting Elizabeth Smart more than eight years ago when she was just 14. (Dec. 10)
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An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast on Friday by Iranian state television. (Dec. 10)
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Former President Bill Clinton says the tax cut deal President Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans is the best bipartisan deal possible. Clinton and Obama made a surprise appearance together in the White House briefing room Friday. (Dec. 10)
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The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says her son has been betrayed by Australia, his native country, under pressure after he leaked scores of secret US government documents. (Dec. 10)
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Five people were taken to hospitals following a crash involving a city bus, a mini-van and a tractor-trailer in Queens. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening. (Dec. 10)
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Actor Richard Gere read a statement from the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is currently jailed in China on charges of subversion, in New York on Friday. (Dec. 10)
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Police are investigating a fourth death in Philadelphia’s gritty Kensington neighborhood to see if it’s part of a recent string of strangulation deaths and sexual assaults by choking. (Dec. 10)
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