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Man Picks Up Son From Day Care, Kills Him

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A man who shot to death his 4-year-old son and wounded his estranged wife in Long Beach was killed by police here Thursday night after wounding an officer in a shootout, authorities said. A man believed to be Brian Manuel, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene …

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Time Warner, Comcast to Buy Bankrupt Adelphia

NEW YORK – Time Warner Inc. (TWX) and Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) have reached an agreement to buy the assets of the bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications Corp. (search) in a deal valued at $17.6 billion in cash and stock. The deal beat out a last-minute bid by Cablevision Systems Corp. …

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Court Upholds Florida Felon Voting Ban

MIAMI – A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday upheld Florida’s 160-year-old law enforcing a lifetime ban on voting rights (search) for convicted felons. Ex-felons sued in 2000 to get their voting rights restored when their sentences are finished, instead of having to apply through a complex system for …

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