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Former New Orleans Officer Admits Role In Cover-Up Of Louisiana Bridge Shooting A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, CNN reports. Jeffrey Lehrmann, a former police detective who now works as a special agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge that he failed to report a cover-up in the in ...

NY Attorney General To Make Announcement On Paterson Probe New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is planning an announcement about his investigation of Gov. David Paterson, the governor's state police security detail and some of his staffers, New York Times reports. The conference call planned for Thur ...

Majority Of Americans Wants Wall Street Regulation A new Harris poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans wants Wall Street subjected to tougher regulation in the aftermath of the bank bailout and the bonus scandals, Reuters reports. The findings suggest that 82 percent of Americans want the governm ...

Three Strong Quakes Strike Chile Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday morning, CNN reports. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.9-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later. They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on th ...