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R. Kelly charged with 11 new sex-related crimes in Chicago

CHICAGO - Prosecutors charged R&B singer R. Kelly on Thursday with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, making them the most serious again...

May 30, 2019

Planned Parenthood: Missouri's last abortion clinic may shut

ST. LOUIS - Missouri's only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, Planned Parenthood officials said Tuesday. Planned Parenth...

May 30, 2019

TV's 'The Profit' to visit store with enormous American flag

STATESVILLE, N.C. - The reality television star responsible for an oversized American flag at a recreational vehicle store he owns in North Carolina says he's visiting the location to support the empl...

May 30, 2019

Phillies OF Herrera arrested in domestic case, put on leave

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Odbel Herrera was placed on administrative leave Tuesday by Major League Baseball following his arrest in a domestic violence case at an Atlantic...

May 30, 2019

Avenatti pleads not guilty to defrauding Stormy Daniels

NEW YORK - The pugilistic and embattled attorney Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty Tuesday to defrauding his most famous client, porn star Stormy Daniels, and seized the spotlight to toss a barb at ...

May 30, 2019

Belgium's ex-monarch agrees to DNA test in paternity case

BRUSSELS - A decades-old royal paternity scandal is setting Belgium abuzz again. Lawyers said Tuesday that Belgium's former King Albert II, 84, has finally agreed to a DNA test demanded by a woman who...

May 30, 2019

Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi gives birth to 3rd child

NEW YORK - Reality TV personality Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has welcomed her third child into the world. The 31-year-old "Jersey Shore" cast member tells People magazine she gave birth early Thursday mo...

May 30, 2019

Michigan State chooses Stony Brook president as next leader

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., a medical researcher who has led Stony Brook University in New York for nearly a decade, was named Tuesday as the next president of Michigan State Univers...

May 30, 2019

Prince's bodyguard deposed in wrongful death lawsuit

CHASKA, Minn. - Lawyers in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of Prince spent seven hours deposing his former bodyguard. The deposition took place Wednesday at the Carver County Courthouse wh...

May 30, 2019

Former US Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi dies at 81

JACKSON, Miss. - Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, who served seven terms and used seniority to steer billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, has died. He was 81. Cochran's final chief of s...

May 30, 2019