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Inmate: Yates Told Me to Fake Mental Illness to Beat Rap

HOUSTON – Andrea Yates once advised a fellow inmate that she could escape prosecution by pretending to be mentally ill and persuading a psychiatrist she suffered from serious disorders, according to court documents filed Thursday by prosecutors. Felicia Doe, who spent four days in a jail block with Yates in …

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Ala. Governor Says Church Fires Appear Linked

BOLIGEE, Ala. – Gov. Bob Riley said Wednesday that the nine church fires in rural Alabama during the past week appear linked, as investigators checked out witness reports of two men in a sport-utility vehicle near a number of the fires. Authorities have ruled arson in five Baptist church fires …

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Al Sadr Returns to Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq on Sunday, cutting short a regional tour following the bombing of a holy Shiite shrine that triggered a deadly wave of sectarian violence, aides said. Al-Sadr arrived in the southern Iraqi province of Basra from neighboring Iran, said Amer …

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