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  • Ex-lawyer says he wrote letter demanding $10M (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:24:34 GMT

     

    Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, left, is escorted by Chris Francis of the U.S. Attorney's office as he arrives at the federal courthouse to testify in the trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Karen Cunagin Sypher's former attorney told jurors at her extortion trial he had sexual relations with the former model before writing a letter to Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino demanding $10 million.


  • US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:18:33 GMT

     

    NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.


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