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Mobster 'Rifleman' Flemmi takes stand in Boston (AP)

AP - New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi described his long relationship with the FBI as an informant during testimony Thursday in wrongful death lawsuits filed by three families who say the FBI failed to control Flemmi and fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

Police: Conn. kidnapper was on a 'suicide mission' (AP)

AP - An advertising executive who handcuffed his ex-wife and held her hostage inside their home was on a "suicide mission," printing out piles of papers on how to kill himself before setting the house on fire, police said.

Fans line up to honor slain ex-NFL QB McNair (AP)

AP - Fans lined up outside a funeral home before work Thursday to pay their respects to ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair.

Getty Center, college evacuate due to LA fire (AP)

AP - Visitors to the Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Frenemy, locavore among new words in Webster's (AP)

AP - Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies?

Sister: Journalist says she broke North Korean law (AP)

AP - The sister of an American journalist jailed in North Korea says the woman acknowledged breaking North Korean law during a recent phone call.

Man who tackled Vegas casino shooter testifies (AP)

AP - An off-duty Army reservist who tackled a gunman at a Las Vegas casino told a jury Wednesday that the man threatened him when his pistol jammed after he opened fire.

South Carolina girl, 8, dies after two shots to head (AP)

AP - A man put an 8-year-old girl in a headlock Wednesday and shot her to death, then shot himself in the stomach, authorities said.

It's not slang! Nev. court permits 'HOE' license (AP)

AP - A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.