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Motive Sought in Fort Hood Rampage

An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire at Fort Hood in Texas cleaned out his apartment and said goodbye to his neighbors in the days before the massacre. Investigators are examining Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's computer, home and even his garbage as they try to determine a motive for the shooting spree that left 13 people dead. Hasan remains hospitalized in a coma after being shot by police.
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in convenience store
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Security video shows Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at a convenience store early Thursday, hours before he allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood.

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Suspected Florida Shooter Was Broke

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Orlando office building
AP
Sources indicate that the man suspected of killing one person and injuring five others at a Florida office building had severe money woes. Jason Rodriguez, 40, allegedly opened fire at the engineering firm that had dismissed him more than two years ago. When a reporter asked him why he had shot up the office, he replied: "Because they left me to rot."
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Suspects' Mom Apologizes to Burned Boy

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Congress Teeming with Millionaires

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A review of financial data shows that nearly half of all members of Congress are millionaires. Nationwide, only 1 percent of Americans are that wealthy. In addition, some of the stocks held most widely by lawmakers are those of banking and investment companies that the federal government bailed out in 2008.
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Exonerated Man Seeks Cash for Sentence

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William Dillon
AP
Wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit, a Florida man who spent 27 years behind bars now seeks more than a million dollars in restitution from the state. Cleared by the use of DNA evidence, 50-year-old William Dillon says, "I think the people that did it to me -- knowingly did it to me -- should have to pay for it."
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Suicide Eyed in Census Worker's Death

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hanged census worker Bill Sparkman
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Bill Sparkman was found hanging from a tree in a Kentucky forest -- his hands bound and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest -- but law enforcement sources say investigators aren't convinced he was murdered. They're looking closely at the possibility the census worker killed himself.
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Jury Convicts Man in 'Fat Defense' Trial

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Edward Ates
Trenton Prosecutor Office/AP
A New Jersey jury finds a Florida man guilty of murder -- despite the defendant's claim that he was too fat to commit the crime. Edward Ates, 62, said he weighed 285 pounds when his former son-in-law, Paul Duncsak, was shot in August 2006. He said he simply didn't have the energy to run up and down a flight of stairs and shoot Dancsak from a perch on a staircase.
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Hubble Gives Best View Yet of Star Birth

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