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With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday on the third day of his trial and admitted he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy he had met while working as a camp counselor.

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When members of Congress repeatedly raised concerns with the Internal Revenue Service about complaints that Tea Party groups were being harassed last year, a deputy IRS commissioner took the lead in assuring lawmakers that the additional scrutiny was a legitimate part of the screening process.

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A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.

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A "sideshow." That's how President Barack Obama is describing the Republican focus on the talking points that were used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the days after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya last year.

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The Ohio attorney general says the man accused of imprisoning three women in a Cleveland house for about a decade isn't linked to other crimes through a national database.

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Federal prosecutors say a northern New Jersey man who used hidden cameras to inappropriately record several young girls in his home has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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A truck accident is snarling traffic at the inbound George Washington Bridge.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court will decide an issue crucial to the future of the Jersey shore in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: whether oceanfront homeowners deserve cash compensation when protective dune projects block their views of the water.

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Police in southern New Jersey are working together to try to make Route 130 safer for pedestrians.

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A judge has sentenced a New Jersey state trooper who led a high-speed escort of luxury sports cars to Atlantic City to one year of probation.

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