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  • Andy Griffith (Associated Press)

    Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

    Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades.


  • Philadelphia man: ‘I didn’t kill’ anyone at Auschwitz

    The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews.


  • Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, Poland, in May 1944. (Associated Press/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

    Documents raise doubts in Nazi probe

    The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews.


  • Briefly: Opposition boycotts parliamentary elections

    Belarus held parliamentary elections Sunday without the main opposition parties, which boycotted the vote to protest the detention of political prisoners and opportunities for election fraud.


  • Philadelphia man is target of Nazi probe

    Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, the Associated Press has learned, following years of failed U.S. Justice Department efforts to have the man stripped of his American citizenship and deported.


  • ** FILE ** John Demjanjuk waits in a Munich courtroom on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

    Appeals court rejects Demjanjuk citizenship bid

    A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a request to restore the U.S. citizenship of a recently deceased Ohio autoworker convicted of Nazi war crimes.


  • ** FILE ** In this May 12, 2011, file picture John Demjanjuk leaves the court room, in Munich, southern Germany. German police say John Demjanjuk, who was charged with 28,060 counts of accessory to murder and convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died. (AP Photo/dapd/ Lennart Preiss,File)

    John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

    John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. autoworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining over three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died Saturday, his son told the Associated Press. He was 91.


  • American Scene

    A bomb that seriously injured two people was left beside their car in a paper bag with their names written on it, police said Sunday.


  • ** FILE ** John Demjanjuk waits in a Munich courtroom on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

    Demjanjuk hopeful of return to Ohio

    Convicted of serving as a Nazi death-camp guard and in failing health at 91, John Demjanjuk still hopes he might be able to return home to Ohio, his son said after seeing his father face to face for the first time since his deportation in 2009.


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