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Former Timberwolves player Chauncey Billups pleads not guilty in rigged poker games case

Former Timberwolves player Chauncey Billups pleads not guilty in rigged poker games case

Portland Trail Blazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several Mafia figures and at least one other former NBA player.
by The Associated Press

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Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing is found a day after walking away from group home

Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing is found a day after walking away from group home

Authorities say a Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home.
by The Associated Press

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A new housing program at soon-to-be-shuttered Stillwater prison is thriving

A new housing program at soon-to-be-shuttered Stillwater prison is thriving

Stillwater prison is an 111-year-old facility with old-fashioned metal bars, no air conditioning in the cells and an estimated $180 million in deferred maintenance costs. But staff and men serving time there say the prison has been reborn.
by Cait Kelley

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Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing is missing

Wisconsin woman in 2014 Slender Man stabbing is missing

A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the online horror character Slender Man is missing after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home, authorities said Sunday.
by The Associated Press

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Minneapolis convenience store owner is 77th charged in Feeding Our Future scheme

Minneapolis convenience store owner is 77th charged in Feeding Our Future scheme

Ousman Camara is the 77th person charged in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case. Prosecutors allege that Camara falsely claimed to have served more than 300,000 meals to children and collected $1 million from taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs.
by Matt Sepic

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