The inventor of the television remote control has died at the age of 96, his former employer has said.

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VIDEO: Tributes to TV remote inventor

The defense rested without calling John Edwards, his daughter Cate or his former mistress to the stand.

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Defense Rests in Edwards Trial

Red Bull’s Aussie charger on his former boss Frank Williams’s birthday win in Barcelona, and the “incredible” Premier League season.

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Webber column: Williams win ‘unreal’

Penn State University has paid out $5.76 million to the estate of Joe Paterno, its heralded head football coach who lost his job as part of a spiraling sex abuse scandal involving one of his former assistants, a school athletic official said Thursday.

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Penn St. paid Paterno’s estate $5.76M

The family of a Greater Manchester Police officer shot dead in a bungled training exercise criticise a photo of officers from his former unit “fooling around” with a gun.

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Killed PC’s family condemns photo

According to his former daughter-in-law.

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Report: Sandusky Abused Grandson

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

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Cancer Center, in Lawsuit, Says a Doctor Appropriated a Discovery

The Crown Prosecution Service will announce on Friday whether it will press charges against Chris Huhne over claims his former wife accepted penalty points on his behalf.

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CPS to announce Huhne decision

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in 1999 asked his second wife for an “open marriage” or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeches around the country on family and religious values, his former wife, Marianne, told The Washington Post on Thursday. Read full article > >

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Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s ex-wife, says he wanted ‘open marriage’

A man is being sued by his former employer after he left the company and took a 17,000-strong Twitter following with him.

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Man sued over Twitter followers

Pragmatic, data-driven and hard-working — the person Mitt Romney was in the mid-70s in graduate school is the person he is now, his former classmates say.

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The Long Run: How Harvard Shaped Mitt Romney

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno has released a statement concerning felony child sex-abuse charges filed against his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, saying of the allegations: “If this is true, we were all fooled.” Paterno testified before a grand jury in March, but has not been charged. Nor is he expected to be. Read full article > >

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Joe Paterno on Sandusky charges: “If this is true, we were all fooled.”

Former England centre Jeremy Guscott tells BBC Sport his former international team-mate Martin Johnson has “come up short” as coach of the national team after their Rugby World Cup exit.

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Johnson came up short – Guscott

No one should be surprised that John Paul Stevens is still issuing opinions, a year after he retired from the Supreme Court. At 91, without the judicial robe he wore for 41 years, Stevens gives speeches, writes book reviews, has completed a memoir of the court and regularly critiques the work of his former Supreme Court colleagues. Read full article > >

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Retired Justice Stevens still issuing opinions

A D.C. Superior Court jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether Roderick Ridley fatally stabbed his former girlfriend, Tiffany Gates, in 2008. However, the jury found Ridley guilty of burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and multiple counts of obstruction of justice and making threats. Despite the lack of a murder conviction, Judge Gerald Fisher sentenced Ridley to 74 1 / 2 years in prison in connection with Gates’s slaying, saying he thinks that Ridley, 34, stabbed his former girlfriend. Fisher called the case one of the most horrible he had heard in his courtroom. Read full article > >

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D.C. man gets 741 / 2 years in connection with fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend