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NY to seek release of sealed Attica riot documents
Category: National Written by Associated Press
FAMOUS PRISON - In a Dec. 20, 2006, photo is Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, N.Y. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say they'll ask a state court to unseal documents containing details about the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after a riot by inmates more than 40 years ago.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he'll seek a court order making public previously secret parts of a 1975 state report that examined New York's efforts to investigate the riot and its aftermath. Thirty-two inmates and 11 civilian employees died after prisoners took over the maximum-security facility in September 1971, most of them when state troopers stormed the prison.
The documents include grand jury testimony ordered sealed in 1975.
Among those seeking release of the records are members of a group of prison employees who survived the riot and relatives of those who died.
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Lawmaker makes 'impulse decision' to come out
Category: National Written by CNN
NEVADA ASSEMBLYMAN KELVIN ATKINSON, D-NORTH LAS VEGAS
(AP Photo/Cathleen Allison,File)
by Ashley Killough
(CNN) -- When Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson entered a floor debate Monday over a legislative effort to repeal the state's same-sex marriage ban, he had no idea he'd be waking up the next morning with his name in national headlines.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:03
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Suspect takes lesser plea in Tennessee AME pastor beating death
Category: National Written by Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A murder suspect has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the beating death of a Chattanooga pastor.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:04
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Jury returns Monday for Pa. abortion case closings
Category: National Written by Associated Press
DR. KERMIT GOSNELL (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)
by Maryclaire Dale
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury won't hear from an abortion provider before they weigh charges that he killed a woman and four viable babies.
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 April 2013 08:15
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6 NY politicians plead not guilty to corruption
Category: National Written by Associated Press
CHARGED WITH FRAUD- New York State Sen. Malcolm Smith, second form left, arrives to federal court in Westchester, N.Y., April 23. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
by Jim Fitzgerald
Associated Press Writer
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Amid a growing perception that corruption is a serious problem in New York, six politicians pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a federal case that alleges an audacious plot to buy a line on New York City's mayoral ballot.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:08
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