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  • Nation Briefs: New York synagogue bomb plot suspect pleads guilty

    A man charged with plotting to blow up synagogues in New York City has pleaded guilty to state terrorism charges.


  • Rapper G. Dep gets 15 to life in '93 NYC shooting

    When rapper G. Dep turned himself in for a nearly 2-decade-old shooting, he told police he wanted to clear his conscience.


  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn enters the Criminal Courts Building in New York on Aug. 23, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Sex charges dropped against Strauss-Kahn

    A pair of judges put an end Tuesday to the sensational sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, setting him free after prosecutors argued the hotel housekeeper accusing the French diplomat of sexual assault couldn't be trusted.


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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn (center) leaves Manhattan state Supreme Court with his wife, Anne Sinclair, and attorney Benjamin Brafman after a hearing Tuesday in New York. A New York judge dismissed the sexual assault case against Mr. Strauss-Kahn.

    Strauss-Kahn set free after prosecutors drop charges

    A pair of judges put an end Tuesday to the sensational sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, setting him free after prosecutors argued the hotel housekeeper accusing the French diplomat of sexual assault couldn't be trusted.


  • Ex-gallery boss gets jail in NYC art fraud

    An art gallery director convicted of selling works without telling their owners was sentenced Tuesday to four months of weekends in jail, closing a case that spiraled out of her former boss' star-studded $120 million scam.


  • Ex-gallery boss gets jail in NYC art fraud

    An art gallery director convicted of selling works without telling their owners was sentenced Tuesday to four months of weekends in jail, closing a case that spiraled out of her former boss' star-studded $120 million scam.


  • Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn listens on May 19, 2011, to proceedings in his case in New York state Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

    Ex-IMF chief out of jail, staying by ground zero

    Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn traded in his private cell at Rikers Island for temporary housing in a building within the police department's "Ring of Steel" — a network of private and police cameras near where the World Trade Center stood.


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