Singers Plan B and Chris Martin support a charity campaign which urges music fans to protect their hearing from loud music

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Music stars back earplug campaign

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David Vines had been arrested almost five dozen times, about half of them for breaking into cars, when he appeared before a D.C. judge in November. He promised to return to the courtroom the next day to continue the hearing. Read full article > >

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Amid rash of car break-ins, D.C. zeroes in on a repeat offender

A US army appeals court rejects a request for the officer overseeing the hearing of army analyst Bradley Manning, accused of leaking secrets, to withdraw.

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Bias rejected in Wikileaks case

A woman convicted of stalking Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand has her appeal dismissed, after she fails to appear for the hearing.

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Ferdinand’s stalker loses appeal

Congressman Leonard Boswell had kenneled his two Rottweilers for the night. Just before bedtime, the 77-year-old Democrat put on his blue-striped robe and removed his hearing aid, turning down the volume on what had been a loud mid-July week of debt-ceiling drama on Capitol Hill. He was getting a glass of water in the kitchen, and even without his earpiece, he could sense some commotion on the main floor of his farmhouse. He rushed to the nearby bedroom to check on his wife of 56 years, Dody. She was in bed — nothing wrong. Read full article > >

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Iowa congressman and his family retell how they fought off a gun-wielding robber

Former Redskins defensive back Rickie Harris has suffered hard knocks and hard times since his playing days in the mid-1960s, and all of it was on display Monday in Fairfax County Circuit Court. During a three-hour hearing, Judge Leslie M. Alden heard medical accounts of Harris’s dementia, fleeting reference to hits he took in the National Football League and repeated reminders that Harris was back in court because of his third drunk driving charge in five years. Never a big man by pro football standards — his playing size was 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds — Harris, 68, sat stooped and with his head bowed during most of the proceeding to determine whether he is competent to stand trial for his arrest in December. The judge ruled that he is competent and the case can move forward. Read full article > >

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Former Redskin ruled competent to stand trial for drunk driving

Someone’s not afraid of a little controversy: House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has announced that he will hold a second hearing on the “radicalization of the Muslim-American community,” next week. He said, “At this hearing, we will look…

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King Plans More Muslim Hearings

Indicted genocidal war criminal Ratko Mladic is back in court for his extradition to the Hague after his lawyer called off the hearing yesterday. Mladic’s lawyer cancelled the hearing yesterday when he said Mladic was unable to communicate. The lawyer…

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Mladic Back in Court for Extradition

Former Football Association chief Mark Palios believes QPR will be deducted points following the hearing into their 2009 signing of Alejandro Faurlin.

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Palios expects QPR points docking

Prince George’s County Council member Leslie Johnson was scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday in connection with a far-reaching corruption probe, but the hearing was canceled Monday.

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Court date in Pr. George’s corruption case canceled, prosecutors say

One half of the Muslim contingent in Congress paused, his voice high and breaking. He tugged at his glasses. He held up a finger and gathered himself.

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Rep. Peter King’s Muslim hearing: Plenty of drama, less substance

This feels a bit like holding a meeting about a meeting. Rep. Peter King’s panel on homegrown terrorism opened with a debate over how best to frame the investigation. King defended the hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans, dismissing what…

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King: ‘Rage and Hysteria’ Unneeded

At the hearing at which he was sentenced to die, Steven J. Hayes said he was deeply sorry for the murders.

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‘I Destroyed Innocent Lives,’ Cheshire Killer Says