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A Los Angeles police officer walks through the vacated site of Occupy LA outside City Hall on Wednesday. Demonstrators were camped here for two months to protest economic inequality and financial system excesses.
Los Angeles police officers cleared out the Occupy LA encampment early Tuesday morning. KNBC-TV reports.
Police clear Los Angeles and Philadelphia encampments. NBC's Chris Clackum reports.
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The San Francisco law to ban including toys with children's meals is targeted at McDonald's Happy Meals.
A former "sheriff of the year" has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to deal drugs in exchange for sex. Patrick Sullivan has been an iconic crime fighting figure in Colorado for decades, but tonight he's behind bars. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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A wrecker driver attaches a towing cable to the Bugatti Veyron that was driven into the water in La Marque, Texas, on Nov. 11, 2009.
A passing motorist shot video of the $1 million supercar plunging into the swamp. (Warning Offensive language in the commentary.)
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Los Angeles City firefighters look over a eucalyptus tree that fell on a house and knocked down power lines, Wednesday.
In Georgia, deputies and movers refuse to evict a 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter. Msnbc's Tamron Hall has the story.
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The red line in this chart shows the dramatic rise in the price of Newt Gingrich shares on the Iowa Electronic Markets' exchange for the 2012 Iowa GOP presidential caucus. "ROF" is "rest of field."
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Maksim Gelman was arrested in February after the spree that included stabbing his stepfather and acquaintances to death, running over a pedestrian, carjacking and other violence.
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The Rev. Billy Graham speaks on stage at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York on June 25, 2005.
Evangelist Billy Graham has been admitted to a North Carolina hospital for evaluation and treatment of possible pneumonia. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
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Federal agents accused the 20 men and women of importing women to dance at Cheetah's Gentlemen's Club in Times Square and Rouge Gentlemen's Club in Queens.
John Hinckley Jr. in 2003.
John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981, asked to spend more time outside the Washington mental hospital where he's been treated for three decades. But prosecutors strongly object to his request. NBC's Pete Williams has more.
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Andri Jeffers, 26, is charged with one count of attempted robbery, with a toy penguin.
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People walk and bike along a path during the mild autumn weather in Prospect Park on Nov. 27 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
The San Antonio Elementary School focuses on technology and feels it helps close the achievement gap in under-served communities by getting students ready for the digital age.
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was sued by a new accuser in the child sex abuse scandal.
New York's attorney general has launched an investigation into whether banks illegally foreclosed on the homes of active-duty service members. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, discusses the issue with msnbc's Chris Jansing.
Police on Long Island now believe a single serial killer may be responsible for the ten bodies found along a deserted oceanside highway. WNBC-TV's Andrew Siff reports.
Congress reverses a move that previously prevented the slaughter of horses for exportation of the meat. Paul Crawley reports.
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Samantha Blanchard, Matthew Hamill and Jon Louis spend time in the Occupy Nashville protest camp on Monday.
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Michael Custer shakes his hands in approval during the General Assembly at the Occupy Nashville protest camp on Monday, Nov. 28.
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Bill Howell, 64, a regional organizer of Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, at the Occupy Nashville protest camp on Monday, Nov. 28. The "23" tag signifies that he was the 23rd protestor arrested in Nashville.
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Samantha Blanchard works in the Occupy Nashville protest camp on Monday.