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<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) - Only a month since the rollout of retooled $20 bills meant to thwart counterfeiters, authorities say a Missouri woman has joined a growing list of people trying to cash in with knockoffs of the colorized currency.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Suicide has been discounted as a possibility in the death of an actress found dead at the home of music producer Phil Spector, authorities said Wednesday.</p> <p>Spector's attorney, Robert Shapiro, did not immediately return a phone call today seeking comment.</p>

DETROIT (AP) - A tip to New York police from a man who said his ex-brother-in-law was a terrorist linked to al-Qaida and "was getting ready to bomb you guys" has triggered the arrest of a Yemeni man in Michigan. Agents who raided the home of Mohamed Nasser Alajji found a number of anti-American tapes and documents, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. State police and federal agents arrested the 31-year-old Detroit resident Thursday near Springfield, a Battle Creek-area community about 120 miles west of Detroit. Alajji appeared in U.S. District Court on Monday on charges of possessing two social...

PMW has documented in the past the Palestinian Authority’s [PA’s] tactic of encouraging children to seek heroic Shahada - death for Allah, and then using the numbers of dead children in their PR war against Israel. A PMW bulletin last week week noted the PA’s recent attempts to brings crowds of violent demonstrators into the streets, in an attempt to change the image of the terrorist war to that of a popular uprising. Now the PA has combined the two tactics, once again encouraging children to die as part of the “popular uprising”, as they have renewed the broadcasting of...

<p>About 2,000 convicted sex offenders in Maine did not register with authorities by this week's deadline, police said.</p> <p>The number of crimes covered by the state's registration law was expanded by the state Legislature in 1999 and 2000. The changes, which took effect last September, also made the law retroactive to 1992.</p>