ALBANY, N.Y. - Three former aides to ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the former head of the state police were charged with ethics violations yesterday, over travel records released to discredit a political rival, a scandal that consumed Spitzer's administration before it was wrecked by another involving a prostitute.
PITTSBURGH - The suspect accused of cutting an infant from a woman's womb was found mentally competent by a judge Thursday to assist in her defense, despite a psychiatrist's testimony that she is a paranoid schizophrenic.
PITTSBURGH - A mother accused of repeatedly injecting her 4-month-old son with salt water will be sent to a state mental hospital after a psychiatrist testified yesterday that the woman is severely depressed.
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- DEARBORN, Mich. - Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic.
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ATLANTA - More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported yesterday in its first national tally of those deaths.
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ATLANTIC CITY - Some here claim that a white city councilman is being treated more leniently than his black co-defendants in a sex-video blackmail case.
- A federal appeals-court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars.
- Barack a hit in Berlin BERLIN - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama yesterday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
- WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates shot up this week with 30-year mortgages climbing to the highest level in nearly a year, reflecting concerns in financial markets about the troubles at corporate giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- SDEROT, Israel - Democratic presidential candidate Ba-rack Obama yesterday employed powerful imagery from past and present to declare his commitment to Israeli security, even as a visit to Palestinian officials in the West Bank aimed to signal balance in his approach to managing the Middle East's volatile conflicts.
- BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Republican John McCain pushed back yesterday against Democratic criticism that he had misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements had been put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.
- WASHINGTON - Barack Oba-ma is going for the gold. The Democratic presidential contender has decided to buy $5 million in national advertising on NBC during the broadcast of the Olympic games. The ads will appear on network and cable channels.
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AKRON, Ohio - A woman who helped her boyfriend steal about $8 million from an armored-car company was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison.
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