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New York Giants Ahmad Bradshaw shows off his newly designed ring commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year arrived at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Players and coaches with the New York Giants football team gathered at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New York City on Wednesday evening to receive newly designed rings commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year. The white-gold rings feature the Giants' logo in diamonds set in blue enamel and encircled by 37 blue sapphires, and is engraved with the years of the Giants' four Super Bowl victories, the first in 1986. "It's every boy's dream to come to Tiffany's and get a ring. ...


  • Super Bowl winners New York Giants get "Big Blue" rings

  • May 16, 2012 at 09:13 PM
  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - Players and coaches with the New York Giants football team gathered at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in New York City on Wednesday evening to receive newly designed rings commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year. The white-gold rings feature the Giants' logo in diamonds set in blue enamel and encircled by 37 blue sapphires, and is engraved with the years of the Giants' four Super Bowl victories, the first in 1986. "It's every boy's dream to come to Tiffany's and get a ring. ...

  • Third suspect in slaying of U.S. Marine's wife pleads not guilty

  • May 16, 2012 at 10:02 PM
  • VISTA, California (Reuters) - An expectant mother has become the third suspect to plead not guilty to murder charges in the mysterious slaying of a young woman killed in California while her husband, a U.S. Marine from Camp Pendleton, was away in Afghanistan. Dorothy Grace Maraglino, who is several months pregnant, is one of three friends, including another Camp Pendleton Marine, who shared a San Diego-area home where the victim, Brittany Killgore, 22, was slain on April 13, prosecutors said. ...

  • California biker gets life term for murder of Hells Angels leader

  • May 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM
  • SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A member of the Mongols motorcycle gang was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole on Wednesday for the slaying four years ago of the San Francisco chapter president of the rival bikers group Hells Angels. Christopher Bryan Ablett, who went by the gang name "Stoney," was convicted earlier this year of murder and other offenses in the 2008 stabbing-shooting death of Mark "Papa" Guardado outside a bar in San Francisco's Mission District. ...

  • Data suggests drug treatment can lower U.S. crime

  • May 17, 2012 at 12:09 AM
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. crime statistics show illegal drugs play a central role in criminal acts, providing new evidence that tackling drugs as a public health issue could offer a powerful tool for lowering national crime rates, officials said on Thursday. An annual drug monitoring report, released by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, also showed a decline in the use of cocaine since 2003, a sign that drug-interdiction efforts and public education campaigns may be curtailing the use of the drug's powder and crack forms. ...

  • Confrontation brews in Congress over detainee law

  • May 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers moved toward a confrontation over the government's power to detain suspected terrorists on Wednesday as the Republican-led House of Representatives began debate on a defense policy bill the White House has threatened to veto. Representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, sought to amend the law to guarantee people arrested in the United States on terrorism charges could not be detained indefinitely without trial or transferred to military custody. ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrives to a news conference in Phoenix, ArizonaPHOENIX (Reuters) - Workers digging the foundations for a new office of an Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Latinos have unearthed the graves of early city founders, some of whom could have been immigrants from Mexico, officials said. Construction workers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's new office came across lines or depressions in the dirt last week that officials believed were a "minicemetery." "When we found the lines of depressions in the ground ... ...


  • Pioneer graves found at site of new Arizona sheriff's office

  • May 16, 2012 at 08:18 PM
  • PHOENIX (Reuters) - Workers digging the foundations for a new office of an Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Latinos have unearthed the graves of early city founders, some of whom could have been immigrants from Mexico, officials said. Construction workers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's new office came across lines or depressions in the dirt last week that officials believed were a "minicemetery." "When we found the lines of depressions in the ground ... ...

  • U.S. lowers threshold for lead poisoning in children

  • May 17, 2012 at 12:08 AM
  • ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut its threshold level for defining lead poisoning in children to 5 micrograms per deciliter on Wednesday from 10, marking the first such reduction in 20 years. "The recommendation was based on a growing number of scientific studies showing that even low blood lead levels can cause lifelong health effects," the CDC said, in adopting the recommendation of an advisory committee. "Today, CDC is officially announcing our agreement with that recommendation. ...

  • Lawmakers approve tweaks to Alabama immigration law

  • May 16, 2012 at 11:44 PM
  • BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama lawmakers passed a new bill to revise the state's controversial immigration law on Wednesday, hoping to fend off more legal challenges to the toughest state measure on immigration in the United States. The bill, whose final approval now rests with Alabama's governor, largely keeps intact a law approved last year that has sparked lawsuits by the Obama administration and immigrant rights groups who argue it is unconstitutional. ...

  • Paupers' cemetery unearthed in California hospital parking lot

  • May 16, 2012 at 11:51 PM
  • FAIRFAX, California (Reuters) - A judge on Friday is to consider the fate of dozens of paupers' graves unearthed by construction crews beneath the parking lot of a California hospital, apparently part of a long-forgotten cemetery established for indigent patients. Construction workers initially discovered 15 plain, uniformly spaced pine coffins in February, but the entire site, located in San Jose, may contain as many as 1,445 graves in all, said Joy Alexiou, a Santa Clara Valley Medical Center spokeswoman. ...

  • Texas death prompts call for better protecting firefighters

  • May 16, 2012 at 09:33 PM
  • SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Hot shot federal firefighters called in to battle the toughest U.S. wildfires often avoid reporting symptoms of heatstroke because they fear damaging their professional reputations, said a report commissioned after an elite firefighter died in Texas last year. The report, released on Wednesday as at least four blazes burned in Arizona early in this year's fire season, said the death of Caleb Hamm, 23, was of heatstroke, and recommended ways federal officials can better protect firefighters' lives. ...

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